Thursday, November 13, 2008
"Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for in their child, so they plant seeds for what they'd like to grow there instead. I've witnessed this with the former hockey player who takes his son outto skate before he could walk. Or in the mother who gave up her ballet dreams when she married, and now scrapes her daughter's hair into a bun and watches from the wings of the stage. We are not, as you'd expect ,orchestrating their lives; we are not even trying for a second chance.We're hoping that if this one thing takes root, it might take up enough light and space to keep something else from developing in our children:the disappointment we've already lived."
Quoted from jodi picoult :
Vanishing acts
spoke at : Thursday, November 13, 2008