Madame Moreau tells Edie that her father once said, “[T]he love you have in your heart for someone you cannot be with is never a burden to be carried. It is…[a] gift you can share in other ways.” What do you feel he meant? How is this demonstrated throughout the novel? Do you agree with him?
I love this quote and will remember it! I really like the idea of sharing that love that I can only carry in my heart. To me it means that those we love are always with us - we may think of memories of them as we reach out to others who are with us. Or we may even reach out to others because of the memories of those special people. I can see that as a gift, both to myself and to those I reach out to. I saw it in the story as characters thought of the generations before them and went on to create goodness.