Reflect:
I connect this week to a book I am reading outside of class called Crossed, by Ally Condie. It's a teen novel but I think overall I consider it a romance novel. The only reason I connect it to the love and romance unit is becuase it has love in it and it has a really great quote in it that spoke to me. It stood out to me so much. The quote goes like this, "Everyone has something of beauty about them. In the beginning for me, it was Ky's eyes I noticed, and I love them still. But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as whys- why he walks like this, why he closes his eyes like that- you can love those parts, too, and it's a love at once more complicated and more complete." (pg. 346) The reason this stood out to me so much is because this is how I can think of someone but I never quite had the words to describe what was going through my head and this is so true. When you first look at someone, you only see the larger picture but as you keep staring at the picture, the little details start to show themselves and a painting you thought you liked turned into a picture you love because of what you didn't see on the surface. Ah, I think I am in love with this quote...
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