At 9/21/09 06:13 PM, EJR wrote:
I've never been too emotionally attached to a book, even if they're sad stories about what happened in real life, like A Child Called "It". Several moments made me sad, but it never brought me to tears.
Yeah, I didn't cry when I read that book, which seems weird because that was a true story whereas this was fiction.
He smiled down at the dog, his throat moving. "You'll be all better soon," he whispered. "Real soon."
The dog looked up at him with its dulled, sick eyes and its tongue faltered out and licked roughly and moistly across the palm of Neville's hand,
Something broke in Neville's throat. He sat there silently while tears ran slowly down his cheeks.
A week later the dog was dead.
Now tell me you didn't just cry, and if you didn't try reading the rest of the book before that part, then you definitly will.
I don't know if it was something about how much Neville struggled to get the one seemingly remaining living creature in the world to trust him, or the fact that I didn't want to be alone reading the book anymore.