Her face – that haughty, high...

Her face – that haughty, high-cheekboned pale face of hers of which she is so proud – is contorted by pain, by thwarted anger. There are tears streaking down her cheeks, pooling in her eye sockets. - P75

Agnes shoulders her pack and, without saying goodbye, exits the farmyard, taking the path around the side of the house, and is gone. - P78

Agnes’s knees are raised, spl...

Agnes’s knees are raised, splayed open like butterfly wings. Her feet, still in their boots, rest on the opposite shelf; her hands brace against the whitewashed wall. Her back straightens and bows, seemingly of its own accord, and low, near-growls are being pulled out of her throat. This takes her by surprise: her body asserting itself in this way. How it knows what to do, how to react, how to be, where to put itself, her legs white and folded in the dim light, her rear resting on the shelf edge, her fingers gripping the stones of the wall. - P68

She knows, she feels, that all will be well, that everything will go their way. He holds her to him and she can feel the breath leave him, enter him, leave him again. - P70

‘She is like no one you have ...

‘She is like no one you have ever met. She cares not what people may think of her. She follows entirely her own course.’ He sits forward, placing his elbows on his knees, dropping his voice to a whisper. ‘She can look at a person and see right into their very soul. There is not a drop of harshness in her. She will take a person for who they are, not what they are not or ought to be.’ - P65

‘She sounds . . .’ she gropes for the right word, recalling one he taught her himself, a few weeks ago ‘. . . peerless.’ He smiles and she knows he remembers teaching it to her. ‘That’s exactly what she is, Eliza. Peerless.’ - P65

생각해 보기 1. 나는 최근 누군가와의 대화에서 감정...

생각해 보기
1. 나는 최근 누군가와의 대화에서 감정에 휘둘려 말을 내뱉고,
내가 뱉은 말을 후회한 적이 있는가? 그렇다면 그때 왜 그런 감정을 통제하지 못했을까?
2. 상대방의 말이나 태도가 내 감정을 자극했을 때, 나는 어떻게 반응하는가? 침착하게 대처하는 나만의 방법이 있는가?
3. ‘지혜로운 침묵‘이 필요한 순간 나는 침묵을 선택할 수 있는 사람인가, 아니면 감정을 표현하지 못하면 억울하다고 느끼는가? - P23

생각해 보기
1. 나는 최근에 ‘내가 해봐서 안다‘는 말이나 생각으로 다른 사람의의견을 무시한적은 없었는가?
2. 지금의 나를 ‘유연한 사람‘이라고 말할 수 있는가? 아니면 ‘고집이 세졌다‘는 말을 더 자주 듣는가?
3. 나는 실패했을 때 과거 방식의 문제를 돌아보는가, 아니면 운이나 환경 탓을 하는가? - P31

[오늘의 한문장] 대온실 수리 보고서

한때는 떠올리는 것만으로도 마음이 서늘해지던 곳이지만 이제는 많은 이들의 각자 다른 시간을 거느리고 있는, 우주에서 가장 중요한 별처럼 느껴지는 집. 나는 잎을 다 떨구고 가지를 층층이 올려 나무로서 강건함을 띠는 벚나무를 올려다보다가 기쁘게 뒤돌아 다시 섬으로 향했다.

-알라딘 eBook <대온실 수리 보고서> (김금희) 중에서 - P340