That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing in my life, didn't want one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.
Lucy: A Novel (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002) - ISBN: 9781466828858