[오늘의 한문장] Skylark

"What will you do while we‘re gone, Papa?" asked Caleb.
"I‘ll miss you," Papa said softly, reaching out to take Caleb‘s hand. He looked at me, then, and as if he knew I would cry if I spoke, he took my hand, too.
"What will happen to us?" I asked after a moment.
Papa looked at Sarah, and his words werefor her.
"We will write letters," he said, his voicesoft. "We‘ve written letters before, you know." - P61

"Sarah," said Aunt Harriet, "will Jacob becoming, too?"
Sarah looked out the window.
"No," she said softly. "Jacob won‘t be coming."
"Papa‘s home," I said.
Somehow hearing my own words made it worse. I started to cry. Sarah put her arms around me, and I cried harder.
"Papa had to stay home." - P68

Maine is green and full of voices and people laughing and talking; the tide going in andgoing out, the moon rising above the water. Sarah loves it here. The last thing every nightshe walks by the water, and the first thing in the morning she is there, too. Now I know how much she missed her old home. I miss my home. I miss Lottie and Nick and the land and the big sky.
I miss Papa. - P69

[오늘의 한문장] Skylark

"When my mother..."
She stopped and looked at me. Then she began to read again. Papa stood outside thescreen door, listening.
"When my mother, Sarah, came, she came by train. I didn‘t know I‘d love her, but Caleb did. Papa didn‘t know, either, but he does love her. I have seen them kiss."" Sarah smiled at me. "And I have seen the way he looks at her and the way he touches her hair. My mother, Sarah, doesn‘t love the prairie. She tries, but she can‘t help remembering what she knew first.""
Sarah stopped and closed the book, holding it close to her.
"You like it," I said.
"I like it," said Sarah softly.
She put her arms around me, and I saw Papa watching us. - P54

[오늘의 한문장] Skylark

Cute Caleb!

"Will you worry if it doesn‘t rain?" asked Caleb.
"Yes, but we‘ll get along," said Papa. "We always get along."
"Imagine having to leave," said Sarah.
Papa took off his jacket.
"We‘d never leave, Sarah," he said. "We were born here. Our names are written in this land."
When Papa and Sarah went inside, Caleb looked at me. I knew what he was going to say, and I didn‘t want to hear it. - P6

"Sarah wasn‘t born here," he said.
I picked up the pail of grain for the chickens.
"I know that, Caleb," I said crossly. "Papa knows it, too."
Caleb took a stick and bent down in the dirt. I watched him write SARA. He lookedup at me.
"I‘m writing Sarah‘s name in the land," he said.
"You can‘t even spell, Caleb," I said. "You can‘t."
I walked away. When I turned to look at Caleb, he was staring at me. I wanted to say I was sorry for being cross with him. But I didn‘t. - P7

"You fell in love with us," said Caleb in the doorway.
"I did that," she said. "First your letters. Then you."
"Did you fall in love with Papa‘s letters, too? Before you knew him?" asked Caleb.
I sat on the bed and watched Sarah‘s faceas as she remembered.
"Yes, I loved your Papa‘s letters," said Sarah softly. "I loved what was between the lines most."
"What was between the lines?" Caleb asked.
Sarah looked at me when she answered. - P12

"His life," she said simply. "That was what was between the lines."
"Papa‘s not always good with words," I said.
"Sometimes, yes," said Sarah, laughing. "But when I read your Papa‘s letters, I could see this farm, and the animals and the sky. And you. Sometimes, what people choose to write down on paper is more important than what they say."
Caleb didn‘t know what Sarah meant. But I knew. I wrote in my journal every night. And when I read what I had written, I could see myself there, clearer than when I looked in the mirror. I could see all of us: Papa, who couldn‘t always say the things he felt; Caleb, who said everything, and Sarah, who didn‘t know that she had changed us all. - P13

[100자평] Holes

Holes (Prebound, Turtleback Scho)
Sachar, Louis / Turtleback Books / 2000년 5월

재밌다. 유명한 책은 다 이유가 있다. 앞 부분 두 번째 읽으니 처음에 보지 못했던 떡밥들을 회수할 수 있었다. 집안의 저주를 극복하는 주인공의 성장 이야기 뿐만 아니라 슬프지만 멋진 러브 스토리가 강렬한 인상을 남긴다.

[오늘의 한문장] Holes

Two nights later, Stanley lay awake staring up at the star-filled sky. He was too happy to fall asleep.
He knew he had no reason to be happy. He had heard orread somewhere that right before a person freezes to death, he suddenly feels nice and warm. He wondered if perhaps hewas experiencing something like that.
It occurred to him that he couldn‘t remember the last timehe felt happiness. It wasn‘t just being sent to Camp GreenLake that had made his life miserable. Before that he‘d beenunhappy at school, where he had no friends, and bullies likeDerrick Dunne picked on him. No one liked him, and thetruth was, he didn‘t especially like himself.
He liked himself now.
He wondered if he was delirious. - P186