Tuesday, April 19, 2011

P.S. I Love You

P.S. I Love You. After 6 years, this is another novel that has made me shed tears. Tears couldn't stop flowing while reading every Gerry's letter and Cecelia Ahern's touchy lines. She's terrific. Watching the movie would have been better as it will only last for 2 hours and that's all. You cry, you weep and you're off to bed but reading a whole novel isn't the same tho' it revolves around the same characters and the same plot. Reading all 519 pages was easy but controlling those overwhelming emotions, feelings and accepting the bitter parts of the novel were HARD. Each chapter offers something to 'grieve' for. 

      Here, I'd quoted a few lines from this novel. Indeed a very touchy, meaningful lines by Cecelia Ahern.

  • Gerry was gone and he would never be back. That was the reality. She would never again run her fingers through his soft hair, never share a secret joke across the table at a dinner party, never cry to him when she got home from a hard day at work and just needed a hug. she would never share a bed with him again, never be woken up by his fits of sneezes each morning, never laugh with him so much her stomach would ache, never fight with him about whose turn it was to get up and turn the bedroom light off. 
  • Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives. A plan that anyone within their circle would agree was accomplishable. They were best friends, lovers and soul mates, destined to be together, everyone thought.
  • She felt relief- relief that his pain was gone, and relief that she had been there with him to witness the peace of him passing. She felt relieved to have known him, to have loved him and to have be loved by him, and relief that the last thing that he saw was her face smiling down on him, encouraging him and assuring it was OK to let go.
  •  But her husband had died when they were both still very much in love and she couldn't just fall out of love all of a sudden just because he wasn't around anymore. 
  • but when he was alive she had lived for him and now he was gone she lived for his messages.
  • She had never wanted to let go; what a luxury it was for people to be able to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted.
  • Gerry touched Holly's nose and smiled to himself as she wrinkled it up in her sleep. He loved watching her while she was sleeping; she looked like a princess, so beautiful and peaceful.
Gerry's gone FOREVER and Holly knows that he's never gonna come back again. She learns to live without him. Ever imagined a life without the person that we love the most ? The reality is hard to be faced yet yes, life goes on and P.S. I Love You has taught me to appreciate the moment that we are living by loving them to the fullest. so, that's all for now, till cya again! toodles! xx