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Excerpted Inspirations #204

  • Writer: Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
    Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
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[Vicky Austin is thinking about the three boys she is seeing this summer.] I'd lost track of the conversation. Suzy was talking about my date with Zachary. "Love is a little thing shaped like a lizard. It runs up and down and tickles your gizzard," she intoned. "Don't be vulgar," I said automatically. However, her idiot rhyme wasn't a bad description of what Zachary did to me. And suddenly I didn't like it. Not the rhyme, but the way Zachary made me feel. I didn't like it because it was only a part of me, only the physical part. Zachary fascinated me, like a cobra. And I didn't want just to be fascinated. I wanted more than that. Because I hadn't ever had it, I wasn't sure what that more was. I only knew I wanted it. Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light (1980), pp. 191-192

 
 
 
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