Rosereader

Rosereader created the book readings on the sun also rises 1 day ago.

Rosereader edited the contributors of readings on the sun also rises 1 day ago.

• Added a contributor: Kelly Wand, editor: (Primary Author)

Rosereader edited the memorable quotes of Falling Together Sunday, October 23, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “It was strange and dignified, and Pen believed that she had never in her life felt so honored to be in anyone's company. She had come across the wide, tilted, spinning world and landed here to become one of two animals, looking at each other in a deep green wood. She was overcome. She longed for the moment to never end, but the ending was right there, waiting. Stay, she wanted to tell the tarsier, but it couldn't stay. It's endangered, she thought, and the thought broke her heart.You are endangered, she thought with grief.So are you, said a voice impatiently. So is everything. But we're here now, aren't we?”

Rosereader edited the memorable quotes of Falling Together Sunday, October 23, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “The creature was perfectly motionless and so exquisitely constructed, from the delicately wrinkled forehead to the flaring, rose-petal-shaped ears to the strong, knobby, shockingly human-looking hands. Pen stared and stared, happiness pouring through her, giving her the gift of its wild gold regard, and she could have sworn that it wasn't just she, but the whole forest that caught its breath.”Pen

Rosereader edited the memorable quotes of Falling Together Saturday, October 22, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “When Pen dove downward, the fish were above her as well. She knew that she was an intruder, but she didn't feel like one. She felt like just another living creature, glowing and streamlined among the corals, corals like ferns and hair and platters and Queen Anne's lace. She stayed as still as she could and watched a parrotfish glide by, stippled,striped, and marbled with so many luminous pastels that it looked like a fish-shaped painting by Monet.”

Rosereader edited the memorable quotes of Falling Together Saturday, October 22, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “Pen had expected to look down and see fish, and she did, but when she looked to the side, there they were, too, suspended next to her face or flowing by in iridescent streams.”

Rosereader edited the memorable quotes of Falling Together Saturday, October 22, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “The coral reef off Balucasag Island packed more gorgeousness per square centiimeter than any other place she had ever been. At the same time that it was exactly like something she had seen on a nature show because everything-from the imperious butterfly fish trailing their scarves to the brown undulating ribbons that Pen assumed were eels to the neon blue coruscations, so penny-small and quick that they might have been tricks of light--each thing, every individual scrap of embodied beauty, was palpably, unmistakably alive.”

Rosereader edited the memorable quotes of Falling Together Saturday, October 22, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “You must stop measuring-over and over-the line between loving and being in love. You must offer yourself, whole, to the cobalt starfish (and the orange one and the pale pink one and the biscuit-colored one with the raised, chocolate-brown art deco design) and to the clear, clear water and to the sweep of shining sky and to the silver scattershot of leaping fish (an entire school skipping across the ocean like a stone).”Pen

Rosereader edited the memorable quotes of Falling Together Saturday, October 22, 2011.

• Marked “My father died two years ago...And this place, your home, makes me miss him more than I usually do. Even though he's never been here....He would love it, maybe for the same reason I do. I just feel that the way things are here is the way things should be. Mostly I'm talking about the way everyone is together. So many have left but nobody's gone. Gone but here.” as a spoiler.
• Added a quotation: “It was even before she was actually in the ocean, before she was surrounded on every side by streaming, swirling, darting, infinitely varicolored glory, while she was still riding in the snow-white water strider of a boat (delicate outriggers arching over the blue water) that took them from Alona Beach to Balicasag Island that Pen realized it: sometimes there is nothing to do but surrender yourself to wonder.”

Rosereader edited the memorable quotes of Falling Together Saturday, October 22, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “My father died two years ago...And this place, your home, makes me miss him more than I usually do. Even though he's never been here....He would love it, maybe for the same reason I do. I just feel that the way things are here is the way things should be. Mostly I'm talking about the way everyone is together. So many have left but nobody's gone. Gone but here.”Pen & Lola Fe