handle with care

"things that break -- be they bones, hearts, or promises -- can be put back together but will never really be whole"

the ending shocked me a little, i wanted so badly for little willow to live on. cried too much, read the last chapter twice. closed the book and put it away with tears streaming down my face, walked to the door and called out for xiaoxiao, realized it was raining. did heaven also cried for the fate of this little girl with osteogenesis imperfecta?

"when you love someone, you say their name different. like it's safe inside your mouth."

"...the day i signed that dnr in the hospital, i made a promise to my daughter. i said, if you fight, i will too. if you live, i will make sure your life is the best it can possibly be. that's what a good mother does, right?"

"people always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. but that's not true, is it? you know, and i know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more."

gosh. just read it if you havent yet. jodi picoult writes with so much passion in her, sometimes i wonder if she cries as she narrates these stories?

grandpa's water lilies, nikon d90