"The heart breaks and breaks

and lives by breaking.

It is necessary to go

through dark and deeper dark

and not to turn."

--from "The Testing-Tree," by Stanley Kunitz

My 8-year-old little sister is reading this book called The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, and this is the epigraph. One day, I want to write a children's book. I love books that are written for children and adults. It reminds me of Madeline l'Engle, who was asked whether she enjoyed writing children's or adult's books (or something) and replied, isn't it the same thing?

Who was it who said that children have the same amount of sadness as adults, but different kinds of sadnesses?

Anyway, by the end of this book, I was sobbing, no joke.