a good read

I love touching moments ~words or phrases in books, and I just read the following & thought, wow, what a lovely way to describe unconditional love. If you haven't read Ann Patchett before do yourself a favor & go check out Bel Canto, I think it is my favorite. But all of her books are interesting and different from other current authors in a way I can't describe.



"at thirty-three he was still the baby she had held in her arms. That was one of the many things he had found so admirable about his wife: her ability to look at their children and see them at every age. She managed to hang on to every bit of love she had ever felt for them, while he could only see the person they were at that exact moment in time. "