Underlined: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

I loved this book. There were too many good lines to choose from.  This one undid me.  It's the end of a letter from a grandmother to her grandson.  Read this book. 

When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It was too big for me and would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweler to make it that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. If I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice.  p. 79

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