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It was the day after we moved into Falconer Road. The winter was ending. Mum had said we'd be moving just in time for the spring. No-body else was there. Just me. The other were insider the house with .Dr. Death, worrying about the baby.
He was sitting with his legs stretched out and his hear tipped back against the wall. He was covered in dust and webs like everything else and his face was thin and pale. Dead bluebottles were scattered on his hair and shoulders.
I tipped what was left of 27 and 53 into the take-out tray and put it in the outside bin, listening to MUM cooing and comforting and the baby squeaking and hissing. The birds were singing outside. When the feeding was over and i was sure everyone was asleep, i crept out of bed, got many flashlight, pulled some clothes on, and tiptoed past their room. I took a jar of aspirin from the bathroom. I went downstairs, opened the back door, and tiptoed into the yard.
For a moment, i wondered about telling her about the man in the garage, then i saw Leakey looking so i shrugged her off and i ran back, yelling.
Before she went away, i held the baby for a while, i touched her skin and her tiny soft bones. I felt the place where her wings had been, then we went in the car to the hospital, we went to the babies ward and left Mum and the baby there, Dad and i drove back to Falconer Road, we sat in the big empty house and i looker at each other, then he went back to painting the dining room walls.
In the hospital, the baby was in in glass case again, there were wires and tubes going into her, she was fast asleep. Mum said everything was fine, the doctor had told her the baby could go home again in a day or two.
He was sitting with his legs stretched out and his hear tipped back against the wall. He was covered in dust and webs like everything else and his face was thin and pale. Dead bluebottles were scattered on his hair and shoulders.
I tipped what was left of 27 and 53 into the take-out tray and put it in the outside bin, listening to MUM cooing and comforting and the baby squeaking and hissing. The birds were singing outside. When the feeding was over and i was sure everyone was asleep, i crept out of bed, got many flashlight, pulled some clothes on, and tiptoed past their room. I took a jar of aspirin from the bathroom. I went downstairs, opened the back door, and tiptoed into the yard.
For a moment, i wondered about telling her about the man in the garage, then i saw Leakey looking so i shrugged her off and i ran back, yelling.
Before she went away, i held the baby for a while, i touched her skin and her tiny soft bones. I felt the place where her wings had been, then we went in the car to the hospital, we went to the babies ward and left Mum and the baby there, Dad and i drove back to Falconer Road, we sat in the big empty house and i looker at each other, then he went back to painting the dining room walls.
In the hospital, the baby was in in glass case again, there were wires and tubes going into her, she was fast asleep. Mum said everything was fine, the doctor had told her the baby could go home again in a day or two.
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My mother educate me, she said " we believe that schools inhibit the natural curiosity, creativity, and intelligence of children. The mind needs to be opened out into the world, not shuttered down inside a gloomy classroom.
In the garden. Used to watch him through the window. Used to listen to him. He was never very well. Couldn't eat it all. Used to find his leaving in the bin next morning. 27 and 53. Sweetest of nec-tars. Lovely change from spiders and mice.
I was hopeless, I couldn't tackle. I missed the ball by a mile when i jumped up to head it. When i had the ball at my feet i stumbled all over the place. I fell over it once and skinned my elbow on the curb. I flet shaky and wobbly and i didn't want to be doing this, playing football in our front street with Leakey and Coot while Mina sat in the tree with a book in her lap and stared and stared.
The sun descending in the west.
The evening star does shine.
The birds are silent in their nest,
And i must seek for mine...
He said some more but i couldn't hear it. Something about being wit me soon, about how how everything would be fine, about how Mum sent me her love.
We can't know. Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can't know. Why is your sister ill? Why did your farther die? She held my hand. Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can't. We have allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.
They'll be doing this all day, said Mina. Flying and feeding all the way till dusk. And the same thing tomorrow and tomorrow till the chicks can fly.
I heard her coming slowly back up to me. Her face was paler than ever. There were tears shining in her eyes.
Every pip could become a tree, and every tree could bear another hundred fruits and every fruit could bear another hundred trees. And so on infinity
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We smiled and prepared to tiptoe away. Then the owls flew back in and came to us. They laid something on the floor in front of us. A dead mouse, a tiny dead baby bird. Blood was still trickling through the ripped fur, through the young feathers. The owls flew quickly away again, and we hear them hotting in the thickening night.
I waited looking out into the empty space left by Mr. Batley and his sons. Even the cracked concrete floor was gone now. There was a wooden fence instead of the back wall. I imagined the garden, filled it with all the shrubs and flowers and the grass that would soon be growing where the ragged yard had been.
I trembled when i heard the car. I couldn't move. Then i took deep breaths, and thought of Skellig and went to open the front door. Dad had the baby in his arms.
I lifted the baby higher. She arched her back like she was about to dance or fly. She reached out and scratched with her tiny nails at the skin on my face. She tugged at my lips and touched my tongue. She tasted of milk and salt and of something mysterious, sweet and sour all at once. She whimpered and gurgled. I held her closer and her dark eyes looked right into me, right into the place where all my dreams were, and she smiled.
I watched her walk away in the late light. From across the street, Whisper came to join her. When Mina stooped down to stroke the car, i was sure i saw for a second the ghostly image of her wings.
We thought a little longer, and in the end we simply called her joy.
I waited looking out into the empty space left by Mr. Batley and his sons. Even the cracked concrete floor was gone now. There was a wooden fence instead of the back wall. I imagined the garden, filled it with all the shrubs and flowers and the grass that would soon be growing where the ragged yard had been.
I trembled when i heard the car. I couldn't move. Then i took deep breaths, and thought of Skellig and went to open the front door. Dad had the baby in his arms.
I lifted the baby higher. She arched her back like she was about to dance or fly. She reached out and scratched with her tiny nails at the skin on my face. She tugged at my lips and touched my tongue. She tasted of milk and salt and of something mysterious, sweet and sour all at once. She whimpered and gurgled. I held her closer and her dark eyes looked right into me, right into the place where all my dreams were, and she smiled.
I watched her walk away in the late light. From across the street, Whisper came to join her. When Mina stooped down to stroke the car, i was sure i saw for a second the ghostly image of her wings.
We thought a little longer, and in the end we simply called her joy.