I’d found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unravelling, an unsubstantial thread, sliding between my fingers, too fine to hold.
Shiver
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Galaxies and Milkyways
Original PoetryYou always complained
that I burned too bright some nights.
But you didn’t complain
when it kept you warm
during your darkest hours.
The Language of Love
Original WritingHe complained of my silence whenever he was around;
but love has no language.
A Little Like This
Original WritingIt was like digging your nails into the earth over and over again, and coming up empty every time. Reaching into the core of your soul, and finding nothing to grasp hold of. I could scream his name a thousand times into the twilight, and twenty miles away, all he’d hear is the wailing creatures of the night. His darkness blinded my senses whilst his couldn’t be clearer. The light I gave him couldn’t have shone any brighter. How can one walk away from a person who left footprints, not fucking fingerprints, on your heart? He set me on fire and left me to choke on the smoke, retching on the ashes of our past.
And just like that, he was gone.
Rumi
LiteratureThis love is a Kingbut his banner is hidden.The Koran speaks the Truthbut its miracle is concealed.Love has pierced with its arrowthe heart of every lover.Blood flows but the wound is invisible.
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– Harper Lee
LiteratureShe was almost in love with him. No, that’s impossible, she thought: either you are or you aren’t. Love’s the only thing in this world that is unequivocal.
Go Set A Watchman
Love At First Sight
Original PoetryHe’s the kind of art
you fall in love with
at first sight.
– Dennis Lehane
LiteratureHe’d just met the woman he’d known, somehow, since before he was born.
Shutter Island
Soulmates
Original WritingAnd when we met for the first time, I knew. I knew you, I knew of you, my bones felt a sense of familiarity as they embraced yours. Our souls were intertwined before we entered this world.
‘If I Stay’ – Cinematic Adaptation Review
Original Writing“Sometimes, you make choices in life.
And sometimes, choices make you.”
After watching Forman’s novel come to life, I was overcome by both extreme sadness that the film was over, and complete ecstasy that the film was exactly how I envisioned it to be.
Mia, a girl with her whole life ahead of her, suddenly finds herself in a coma after a fatal car accident which took the lives of her parents and younger brother, Teddy. The novel, and the film, takes us through a series of flashbacks into Mia’s life and memorable moments which predominately surround her love interest, Adam. The reader is left right up until the end of the story to find out whether or not Mia survives the crash, and the journey from start to end is both tragically endearing and overwhelmingly exhilarating with a few life lessons along the way.
The character of Adam is strangely and seductively compelling, played exquisitely by Jamie Blackley, and represents the conflicts of love and morality thrown into question when someone we love is almost lost to us. I fell in love with his character from the moment Forman introduced us to him; a leather jacket-wearing rockstar who wears his heart on his sleeve and falls for the girl who remained invisible to all but him. Boys wanted to be him. Girls wanted to be on him. Right up until the very end of the story, Adam, and Blackley, did not disappoint.
Chloë Grace Moretz was brilliantly casted to play Mia Hall. She conveyed every emotion I felt whilst reading the novel, and I don’t think anyone else could have captured the essence of Mia Hall the way Moretz did.
I find that the music complimented the film perfectly, too. Very well chosen in accordance with the novel.
I cannot express how amazing it feels to read a book, fall in love with it, then see it on a screen exactly the way you imagined it would be.
So thank you, Gayle Forman, for manipulating me into thinking that true love exists in the form of a rocker, and to the cast of If I Stay, for bringing my imagination to life.
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