So she goes to see the Old Man of the Mountains—looks just like you, Bear. Same face, same hair. A big old bear, sitting up there on the top of the mountain, looking out at everything below. Doesn’t smile so much, but understands how everybody’s got a secret dark place sits way deep down there inside, hidden but wanting to get out. Understands how you can be happy but not happy at the same time. Understands that sometimes you feel you got to go all the way out to get back in, but if you do, you can’t. There’s no way back in. .Charles De Lint
About This Quote
In this quote, Judy Moody is speaking to a man she knows. The man is a bear, and Moody says he looks just like her father, Mr. Moody. But he is not Mr.
Moody. She tells the man of a bear called Bear, a cave-dwelling bear, an ancient bear that can see into people’s hearts and know their secrets. Bear had been the only one who could see into her father’s heart and understand how he felt about her mother leaving him for another man.
When she asked him how he did it, Bear told her that it wasn’t magic but that he just knew what was in people’s hearts, and that when you know what they are feeling, you can feel it too. She then tells the man that if he sits in his secret place in the cave, looking out at the world below, then she will learn how to love again.
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