Something I Read that Touched Me

I just started reading the book The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. My mom bought it for Kevin for christmas and he finally got around to reading it so now it's my turn. I'm only in the first chapter, but this passage really struck me and I felt compelled to quote it here. It struck me close to my heart, and my tiny darkness and it also makes me wonder what Kevin thought when he read it.

Gar's wife has just delivered a stillborn baby, when it came a few months too early (we lost Mae when I was 20 weeks pregnant)...

... she swathed the still form and passed it over. When he turned to leave she set her hand on his shoulder, and so he waited, watching when he thought he should watch and looking away at other times, and what he saw was her coming back together, particle by particle, until at last she turned to him with a look that meant she had survived it.
But at what secret cost. In her mind, where the baby had already lived and breathed (the hopes and dreams, at least, that made up the baby to her) was a place that would not vanish simply because the baby had died. She could neither let the place be empty nor seal it over and turn away as if it had never been. And so it remained, a tiny darkness, a black seed, a void into which a person might forever plunge. That was the cost, and only Trudy knew it, and even she didn't know what it meant or would ultimately come to mean.