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elpalmer's review
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
Recommended to me quite a while ago by my therapist, I didn’t connect with it all but am glad I tried it
Some bits I liked:
“I don’t think kissing should grow stale with age. Who says that growing older means growing farther apart? I refuse for doom to sit comfortably at my table. I want to grow hopelessly intertwined with someone. I hope my lover knows laughter and shares it well. Who has time to worry about wrinkles? They are a small price to pay for years of fulfillment. I hope my face becomes a Grand Canyon of them all so I know I have experienced I contained joy with someone. Then, I will know I have lived well. When I come to the end of my life and the sun greets me one final morning , I hope to be cluelessly happy, obliviously enthusiastic, and too preoccupied with the zeal of life to notice something as trivial as death coming for me. I hope to start my final morning like every one of my other mornings. I will roll over and give my lover a kiss.”
“I am here for myself like I need to be, but sometimes I need to hear it from someone else - sometimes I need to feel like a piece of art hanging on someone’s bedroom wall - I need to know that someone is admiring the good qualities that I can’t see in myself. Sometimes I need someone to proudly show me off despite my imperfections.”
“She feels it - everything - and feels it with ferocity. Her spirit won’t let her do otherwise. She is so willing to love, to give, so willing to connect.”
“Im always smiling at everyone I pass by, and one day they all stopped smiling back.”
“I still have hopes to find someone wide-eyed and whimsical, and with a welcoming grin - and just maybe, they’ll smile first.”
“Today I walked past places I’ve lived before, saw picnic tables I’ve sat in and wondered who I was then. I remember being in those moments and not what I was thinking about or what exactly was going on in my life. It is times like these that I wish I kept journals. So I could see the snippets of who I was.”
Some bits I liked:
“I don’t think kissing should grow stale with age. Who says that growing older means growing farther apart? I refuse for doom to sit comfortably at my table. I want to grow hopelessly intertwined with someone. I hope my lover knows laughter and shares it well. Who has time to worry about wrinkles? They are a small price to pay for years of fulfillment. I hope my face becomes a Grand Canyon of them all so I know I have experienced I contained joy with someone. Then, I will know I have lived well. When I come to the end of my life and the sun greets me one final morning , I hope to be cluelessly happy, obliviously enthusiastic, and too preoccupied with the zeal of life to notice something as trivial as death coming for me. I hope to start my final morning like every one of my other mornings. I will roll over and give my lover a kiss.”
“I am here for myself like I need to be, but sometimes I need to hear it from someone else - sometimes I need to feel like a piece of art hanging on someone’s bedroom wall - I need to know that someone is admiring the good qualities that I can’t see in myself. Sometimes I need someone to proudly show me off despite my imperfections.”
“She feels it - everything - and feels it with ferocity. Her spirit won’t let her do otherwise. She is so willing to love, to give, so willing to connect.”
“Im always smiling at everyone I pass by, and one day they all stopped smiling back.”
“I still have hopes to find someone wide-eyed and whimsical, and with a welcoming grin - and just maybe, they’ll smile first.”
“Today I walked past places I’ve lived before, saw picnic tables I’ve sat in and wondered who I was then. I remember being in those moments and not what I was thinking about or what exactly was going on in my life. It is times like these that I wish I kept journals. So I could see the snippets of who I was.”
robinsversion's review
2.5
Very repetitive and extremely dull. I am so tired from trekking through this slog.
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