But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?
Jodi PicoultA lot of the moms of autistic kids I met are so consumed with being their child's advocate that there's no room for anything else - least of all themselves. It's why so many marriages end in divorce, when a child is diagnosed on the spectrum.
Jodi PicoultBut thereโs a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasnโt near you.
Jodi PicoultI think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.
Jodi Picoult