It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.
The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2012) - ISBN: 9781476703893