This weekend’s Trifextra challenge is
really different. We aren’t doing the
writing because they would like us to scour through our favorite pieces of
literature and give us the best 33 words we can find. We may not use one that
another Trifectan has already posted.
This was intensely hard for me.
First, I narrowed it down to three favorite books (A Wrinkle in Time by
Madeleine L’Engle, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, and The Sense of an
Ending by Julian Barnes). Then to two quotes from each book, then one.
My final choice was the one that
touched me, very much, the moment I first read it but again when I deleted all
others. It is very simple. And it wasn’t, at all, chosen for its creative wording
or sentence structure or literary profoundness. It’s one that means something
to me.
And I just read it, actually, one
week ago today in The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes:
“…the freckles I once loved are now closer
to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we
found the other person, and find them still.”
