This night is sparkling, don't you let it go I'm wonderstruck, blushing all the way home

today was... well, quite honestly, not that great.
i didn't see roy.
i got yelled at. 
bruises are showing up.
it was just all around, not so great.


but, i read a really, really good book. 
called the tenth circle by jodi picoult. 
it's about rape, and parent-child relationships. 
it's actually really, really good. 
but there was one part, that i really, really liked. 
so i decided to share[:


"it was not a coincidence that no and know sounded the same. You were supposed to be able to say the magic word, and that was enough to make your wishes - or lack of them - crystal clear. But no one ever said yes to make sex consensual. You took hints from body language, from the way two people come together. Why, then, didn't a shake of the head, or a hand pushing hard against a chest speak just as loudly? Why did you have to actually say the word no for it to be rape?
That one word, spoken or not, didn't make Jason any less guilty of taking something she was not willing to give. It didn't make her any less foolish. All it did was draw a line in the sand, so that the people who hadn't been there to witness it -- Moss and Zephyr, her parents, the police, the district attorney -- could take sides.
But somewhere along the line, it also made her realize that she couldn't blame Jason, not entirely, for what had happened."


ah, if you like good books, read this one.
and Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson.
and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson.


thee end[: