This is so beautiful and innocent...
An excerpt from "When She Was Good" by Norma Fox Mazer
When Em, the protagonist describes how she felt after her mother dying on her and the regrets she had about not having expressed her love. This should be a great lesson to all of us who take people for granted. It should be a reminder to those of you who have gone through this feeling and have put it behind them....
"My heart then seemed to be located in the throbing center of my forehead, or else deep in my throat. I was aware of its weight, and it seemed both as heavy stone and as fragile as a walnut, which could be craked with a single rap of the hand. Inside were the two halves of myself, like the two halves of my heart; in one half lay guilt, in the other grief, and each had an equal claim on me. I wondered why I had not been better to her, more considerate more loving, why I had never kissed her more, as now I longed to do, a thousand kisses for her cheeks, another thousand for each hand. Why hadn't I told her every single day of her life that I loved her? "
