[오늘의 한문장] Because of Winn-Dixie

"Learned what?"
"Learned what is the most important thing."
"What‘s that?" I asked her.
"It‘s different for everyone," she said. "You findout on your own. But in the meantime, you got toremember, you can‘t always judge people by thethings they done. You got to judge them by whatthey are doing now. You judge Otis by the pretty - P96

music he plays and how kind he is to them animals,
because that‘s all you know about him right now.
All right?"
"Yes ma‘am," I said. - P97

I didn‘t go to sleep right away. I lay there andthought how life was like a Littmus Lozenge, howthe sweet and the sad were all mixed up togetherand how hard it was to separate them out. It wasconfusing.
"Daddy!" I shouted.
After a minute, he opened the door and raisedhis eyebrows at me.
"What was that word you said? The word thatmeant sad?"
"Melancholy," he said.
"Melancholy," I repeated. I liked the way itsounded, like there was music hidden somewhereinside it. - P126

"We‘ll keep looking," said the preacher. "Thetwo of us will keep looking for him. But do youknow what? I just realized something, India Opal.
When I told you your mama took everything withher, I forgot one thing, one very important thingthat she left behind."
"What?" I asked.
"You," he said. "Thank God your mama left meyou." And he hugged me tighter. - P167

[오늘의 한문장] Because of Winn-Dixie

생일선물로 도서관이라니! 너무 멋짐.
War and Peace.

Miss Franny looked around the library. She leaned in close to me. "I don‘t want to appear pride-ful," she said, "but my daddy was a very rich man. A very rich man." She nodded and then leaned - P45

back and said, "And I was a little girl who loved to read. So I told him, I said, ‘Daddy, I would most certainly love to have a library for my birthday, a small little library would be wonderful.‘"
"You asked for a whole library?"
"A small one," Miss Franny nodded. "I wanted a little house full of nothing but books and I wanted to share them, too. And I got my wish. My father built me this house, the very one we are sitting in now. And at a very young age, I became a librarian. Yes ma‘am." - P46

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케이트 디카밀로 지음, 김보경 외 / 롱테일북스 / 2023년 1월

감정이 없던 냉랭한 Rabbit doll Edward Tulane. 그로 인해 갖은 풍파를 겪지만 사랑의 감정, 그 다정함, 그 아픔을 배우게 된다. ‘이젠 다시 사랑 안해’라는 노래 가사처럼 그렇게 다시 마음을 닫으려 하지만 그가 들은 말을 놓지 못하고, 그렇게 그에게 누군가가 왔다.

Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your mind.

[100자평] Claudia and the New Girl: A Graphic Novel (the Baby-Sitters Club #9): Volume 9

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Ann M. Martin / Graphix / 2021년 2월

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[100자평] Logan Likes Mary Anne!: A Graphic Novel (the Baby-Sitters Club #8): Volume 8

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Ann M. Martin / Graphix / 2020년 9월

많이 shy 하지만 조금씩 변화하고 성장하는 Mary Anne을 응원하게 된다. 어린 나를 보는 듯하다.