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[mrsronweasley]

I'm rereading At Swim, and every day I am tempted to quote the entire book, just read it out loud, from the highest mountain top I can find, to anyone who will listen, for years and years and years. Instead, I'll settle for quoting little bits, because if ever I was committed to anything, it is to spreading the love. And I get to use this icon almost entirely in context.

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"She made a difference to me, your mother did. I came across her one time and I heard her singing."

"She does always be singing, all right."

"I felt I might belong. I might, God help me, be" --irrational, irrepresible, irresponsible, iron-brained, irascible, irksome, entirely irresistible-- "might be Irish," he said.

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Comments

[shihadchick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that bit you quoted? When I got to that, it just killed me DEAD. Ngggggggggh. (Am nearly finished now, will certainly be emailing you when I am to, like, flail and stuff. And then I get to share it with the Eire-ophiles in Hawaii in a month and a bit, too, so... yay.)

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

GOD, YES. It's such a...culmination of feeling for him, you know? That entire night is when he breaks out and begins a new life, it's this...shift. I mean. With (SPOILER IF YOU HAVEN'T READ PAST THE SCENE) S. "leaving" and M. just...growing into himself, as he should be. He realizes things that night, he faces a few demons, and he finds a new purpose, almost. God. And I forgot about that line up until the very last moment, and it gave me shivers. Again.

And yes please do email, so we can flail and, I suspect, I might have to hold you. Just. YES. *sigh*