Thursday, March 19, 2009

A Quote a Day: Day 5

From Outer Banks by Anne Rivers Siddons:

"They are love, those rare blinding early friendships. Not everyone has them, and almost no one gets more than one. The others, the later ones, are not the same. These first grow in a soil found only in the country of the young and are possible only there, because their medium is unbroken time and proximity and discovery. Later, there is not enough of any of those for the total, ongoing immersions that these friendships are...These friendships may continue past first youth, but I don't think they often do. Their primary strength is that fire of exploration and validation. The friend becomes a cicerone, to go with you down to the bottom of your deepest depths and out to the farthest crannies of your being. All your senses are open, all your reservoirs fill up at a prodigious rate, all your motors hum."

2 comments:

Dawn @ sheIsTooFondOfBooks said...

I used to read a lot of Anne Rivers Siddons, but I haven't picked up a book of hers in a while. I did enjoy *Outer Banks*.

Dawn
She is Too Fond of Books

Jim Rhodes said...

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