From "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", Ann Brashares
Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures. Wearing slippers and watching the Miss Universe contest. Eating a brownie with vanilla ice cream. Getting to level seven in Dragon Master and knowing there were twenty more levels to go.
Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.
maybe it didn't matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn't matter if your friend was possibly dying.
Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.
--page 282
posted by Gail Mallo @ Thursday, November 30, 2006
3 Comments:
Hi Gail! That's from Tibby's story, right? :) I love that book, something so bittersweet and melancholy about the way it's written. :)
But it's true, that particular passage also made me think, that we can be content with little blessings, that we will be able to get through anything and everything - and things will always get better. :)
NINA: Hi Nina, yup you're right. :) It's the little things that are most rewarding. :)
MONCH: Yup, it is! I love that book. The second one isn't as good as the first book, though. Sad.
i agree with everything that was said in this quote. *sigh*
i have yet to see the movie and read the book. i heard people cried when they saw it. ??
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