"When she wasn't sleeping already she lay in the shade and waited for sleep to return. In slumber everything was as it had once been, when they were whole and he ran beside her, pink and small-limbed and clumsy...no search for him was necessary. In her dreams, he was there, always...not so in the waking world, which held nothing but an endless search."
I hate crying, especially at work. But, this book is so good. The quote above is the beginning of the chapter that had my mascara running by the end of it. "She" is Almondine, Edgar's dog. Almondine looks for Edgar every day for weeks, ever since he ran away from home (it's a long story, one that is definitely worth the read). The author is just so good at describing the special relationship between Edgar and Almondine that you can't help but be devastated at how much the dog misses her boy. I won't spoil the story (I've still got a ways to go myself-about 100 pages left), but I know for sure that I haven't spilled my last tear over this book yet.
"She stood broadside in the gravel and turned her head and asked her question. Asked if it had seen her boy. Her essence. Her soul. But if the traveler understood, it showed no sign."
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I have a hard time reading books about animals that might make me cry. Hence, never seeing the end of Marley and Me. The book was bad enough.
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