Pants

Dated: 17 Aug 2005
Posted by rhonda

I read The Third Summer of the Sisterhood today. And I was trying to decide which character I most relate to. And I decided there are pieces of all them that resonate with me.

But a couple of quotes really stood out to me and hit me where I’m at, thatI immediately related to situations in my life.

She’d (Bridget) rather go through her life doubting that such a thing was possible than knowing it was real and she couldn’t have it.
What a pitiful waste she was. She was willing to give away, to throw away, the very best she had. It was one thing to sacrifice yourself for a great cause. It was another to destroy yourself for a person who didn’t even want you. It was an act of self-immolation, a sacrifice nobody wanted, that did nobody any good. What could be more tragic than that?

She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.

And another one from Bridget;

I didn’t know if it (friendship) would be possible after what we did two summers ago, but then it happened. I was happy. I loved being your friend. I admit I may have had some other thought too, but they didn’t matter to me nearly as much as being your friend. I was happy to be close to you on any terms.

And I relate this one to the same situation.

She (Lena) was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn’t going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn’t going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.

Release me, she begged silently.

She needed to be free of him. She needed to get on with her life. Maybe even to fall in love again. She had a candidate in mind

(except I don’t have a candidate in mind)

:sigh: Yeah.

But this one isn’t deep at all. It just made me laugh.

Carmen made attempts to clean her room while she waited. In truth, she did that spasmodic, surface rearranging, like putting the random AA battery into her sock drawer to get it out of sight, that would only make the job bigger when she got down to real cleaning.

For the record, I really love these books. They are very real, and even though they are about teenage girls, I still really relate to them. Maybe that says something about my maturity level. :)

3 Responses to “Pants”

  1. Sarah Says:
    August 18th, 2005 at 6:26 am

    Rhonda - I love those books, too. BECAUSE they’re so real. I very much relate to all of the girls in some way, probably Lena most (at least to some of her circumstances). But also to that bit about Carman’s cleaning. :lol: I do the same thing! But yeah. It’s not a maturity-level thing, I think. It’s more of a “resonating with these glimpses of human nature” thing.

  2. Hannah Says:
    August 22nd, 2005 at 5:31 am

    I finally got to read the third book and I’ll admit it - it made me cry! Chalk it up to pregnancy hormones, but this book really got to me. I cried when Eric held Bee when she was sick and I cried when Christine gave birth.

    Overall, I definitely think this was my favorite of the Pants books. It was insightful and thought-provoking.

  3. julie Says:
    August 23rd, 2005 at 5:02 pm

    Wow.. I haven’t even heard of these books. It’s it great though, when you find anyone of any age that can relate to something you’ve gone through.. or feel? :)

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