I wrote this down without attribution

November 5, 2007 9:19 AM

Please help me identify this quote from a novel about love and a girl named Lucy.

He was speaking for himself and for Lucy, whom he had loved since he was twelve years old. Remember how he told us? She was spinning in cartwheels across the football field the first time he saw her, a strange, friendless girl, new in town. He said he saw himself in her that day, though we could not imagine how or where, in what part of her electric being he might be found.

Maybe that was all love way--seeing yourself in someone else--and when love ends it's only because you fail to see yourself there anymore.

posted by crush-onastick to media & arts (6 comments total)

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22electric+being+he+might+be+found%22?
posted by zamboni at 9:23 AM on November 5, 2007

Google seems to be giving me my just comeupance for being smug. Originally, that link indicated the answer was The Perpetual Ending: A Novel.
posted by zamboni at 9:28 AM on November 5, 2007

zamboni: that comes up with no responses for me. Actually. all my searches did.
posted by crush-onastick at 9:28 AM on November 5, 2007

well done, zamboni!
posted by boygirlparty at 9:31 AM on November 5, 2007

Google BookSearch being screwy, I guess. My first search showed one hit for said book, but subsequent ones didn't show anything. Accept my apologies for glibness.
posted by zamboni at 9:31 AM on November 5, 2007

Thanks, zamboni. I have no conscious recollection of that book/author, but at least I can now attribute it!
posted by crush-onastick at 9:33 AM on November 5, 2007