The Nearest Book

Because the glorious Nathaniel of The Film Experience tagged me to do this -- and who am I to reject him? -- I'm doing it. Why not? The rules:

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Locate the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences on your blog and in so doing...
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged me.

Okay, let me see around here... I'm in the den, where we keep the books in my house, so this shouldn't be hard... oh look, Juno: The Shooting Script, the custom DVD edition only available with the 2-Disc Special Edition with Digital Copy! Yay! But, wait - no page numbers. Well, there goes the excitement. *sigh* What else is around here...? Almanac? No. Encyclopedia? No. The Bible? *laughs uncontrollably* No. Hm, what's this? *blows on cover, dust flying everywhere* GASP!

BRIDGE TO FUCKING TERABITHIA!!!!!

In case you didn't know, Bridge to Terabithia is a milestone for me: the first (and only) book I've ever read more than once of my own volition, and also the only book to date I've read before the announcement of a major motion picture adaptation. Here's the excerpt, talking about and spoken by May Belle, Jesse's little sister.

"I had to do some things." She was scraping mud on her bare legs. "I just wanted to find you, so you wouldn't be so lonesone."

Yeah, as you might be aware, that's deep, deep into spoiler territory, and is actually five pages until the book ends. But I love this book so much. It's so devastating too; 10 year-old me never saw it coming, and it still attacks my tear ducts (such as the film did -- they were like broken faucets for the entire third act). If you've read/seen it, you know why. No reason in saying it here.

As for tagging... I bequeath Nick, Matt, DL, Catherine, and Dave, five of my bestest blog mates, or at least in my cute deranged mind. :)