We've said it before, but there's something about the intensity of young adult fiction that makes it particularly suitable for a ceremony reading, and today's piece is the perfect example, an excerpt from Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey. While the story behind this novel has some darker elements, this extract is about the incredible headiness of love, ideal wedding reading stuff!

Excerpt from Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

What I'm feeling, I think, is joy. And it's been some time since I've felt that blinkered rush of happiness. This might be one of those rare events that lasts, one that'll be remembered and recalled as months and years, wind and ravel. One of those sweet, significant moments that leaves a footprint in your mind. A photograph couldn't ever tell its story.

It's like something you have to live to understand. One of those freak collisions of fizzing meteors and looming celestial bodies and floating debris and one single beautiful red ball that bursts into your life and through your body like an enormous firework. Where things shift into focus for a moment, and everything makes sense. And it becomes one of those things inside you, a pearl among sludge, one of those big exaggerated memories you can invoke at any moment to peel away a little layer of how you felt, like a lick of ice cream.

The flavour of grace.

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