What makes us happy makes us wise
Art by Peter Milton for the 25th anniversary edition of Little, Big.
Oh, sigh. I'm a third of the way into Little, Big and it's perfect. I feel totally delighted and impassioned and anxious and giddy. And I'm in awe of how my relationship with this book is feeling a lot like a doomed affair. The way you're told from the get-go that it's going to be heartbreaking makes the experience of reading the story darkened with worry, but you go on anyway, because it's so beautiful. So much truth here.
When you grow up, you trade what you had as a child for what you have as a grown-up. Or if you don't, you lose it anyway, and get nothing in return.
A good reminder to loosen your grip. A tight fist can have things torn from it, but nothing will ever be placed there.
April
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