I am a self-proclaimed cry baby. I am also a self-proclaimed bookworm.
However, no book has made me cry or spoken to my soul more than “Me Before You,” written by the best-selling author Jojo Moyes. As we say today, no book has “given me the feels” more than this brilliant and heart-wrenching love story. Remember how in "Once Upon A Time," the characters would crush each others’ hearts into a fine powder? That’s how my heart felt when I spent my winter break sobbing in between the pages of Will and Lou’s story.
It was a privilege to visit the lives of these characters and heck, it taught me more about life than I ever could fathom. Now we’re all anticipating the day when this book is released as a film in June.
In its honor, I reflected and compiled 10 quotes that made my heart beat and break:
“I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.”
“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
“Shhh. Just listen. You, of all people. Listen to what I'm saying. This...tonight...is the most wonderful thing you could have done for me. What you have told me, what you have done in bringing me here...knowing that, somehow, from that complete arse, I was at the start of this, you managed to salvage something to love is astonishing to me. But...I need it to end here. No more chair. No more pneumonia. No more burning limbs. No more pain and tiredness and waking up every morning already wishing it was over. When we get back, I am still going to go to Switzerland. And if you do love me, Clark, as you say you do, the thing that would make me happier than anything is if you would come with me. So I'm asking you - if you feel the things you say you feel - then do it. Be with me. Give me the end I'm hoping for.”
“You are scored on my heart,Clark. You were from the first day you walked in,with your ridiculous clothes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.”
“Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.”
“I realized I was afraid of living without him.”
“I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?”
“I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.”
“All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.”
“We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.”