For this blog response, select one sentence from Chapter 5 that you would consider your favorite line from the reading.
Post the sentence and the page number.
There is a challenge....
If someone has posted your sentence of choice, you cannot post the same sentence. You must go back to the text to find another sentence for the post! Happy Reading!
"I grabbed my head, fingers digging into my skin, and the doctor thinking to be kind, put his hand on my shoulder. At his touch i lost all hope of controlling myself.
ReplyDelete"it was a feeling he had, and at this moment he must have been formulating a new commandment in his personal decalogue: Never accuse a friend of a crime if you only have a feeling he did it." (66)
ReplyDelete"Oh no,i wouldn't do that," and that was the most false false thing, the biggest lie of all." page 71.
ReplyDelete-Chris Morris
"It struck me then that I was injuring him again. It occurred to me that this could be an even deeper injury than what I had done before."(page 70)
ReplyDelete"His eyes studied me as though I were the patient. They no longer had their sharp good humor, but had become clouded and visionary." (page 65)
ReplyDelete"Most of all i cried because of kindness, which i had not expected." (page 64)
ReplyDelete"I felt like some nobleman, some Spanish grandee....Standing there in Finny's triumphant shirt...I would never stumble through the confusions of my own character again."
ReplyDelete-Alexis Tedesco
“Sports are finished. As a friend you ought to help him face that and accept it.” page 63
ReplyDeleteTimmy Broderick
"It was only a feeling he had, and at this moment he must have been formulating a new commandment in his personal decalogue: Never accuse a friend of a crime if you only had a feeling he did it." Pg 66
ReplyDelete"The house itself was high, white, and oddly proper to be the home of Phineas. It presented a face of definite elegance to the street, although behind the winds and ells dwindled quickly in formality until the house ended in a big plain barn." (Page 67)
ReplyDelete"i had no idea why this gave me such intense relief, but it seemed, standing in finny's triumphant shirt, that i would never stumble through the confusion of my own character again."pg 62
ReplyDeletesteven m.
"He seemed to have diminished physically in the few days which had passed, and to have lost his tan. page 64
ReplyDeleteBrian G
"I felt like a wild man who had stumbled in from the jungle and had to tear the place apart."
ReplyDeletepg 69
Luke Elion
"....there was no controlling what I said, the words were Instinctive, like
ReplyDeletethe reactions of someone cornered." pg 65
-sarah murphy
"I was thinking about it... about you because-I was thinking about you and the accident because I caused it" (69).
ReplyDelete"The summer session closed, officially came to an end. But to me it seemed irresolutely suspended, halted strangely before it's time." (Page 67)
ReplyDeleteBut when I looked in the mirror it weas no remote aristocrat I had become, no character out of daydreams. I was Phineas, Phineas to the life. (pg 62)
ReplyDeleteLaura McKinsey