Broke up with my boyfriend of 4 years this week, we wanted different things out of life, nothing bad but still hurts.
25f, into just about everything but nonfiction and romance, looking for something that will make me cry and forget the break up for a while
by roscandy
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Anything by Kirsten Hannah
Beach Music by Pat Conroy.
It’s 650 pages of perfect sadness and honestly is one of the funniest books I have read. You get themes and talks of suicide, family drama religious drama. You get knee deep into the Holocaust, the Vietnam war. I’ll leave you with 2 of the best paragraphs from the book. And the first one changed my life seriously…
“I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always. I thought that, at birth, American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.”
“As she cried, I began to under-stand. You weep at the loss of so beautiful a world and all those parts you will never be able to play again. The dark takes on different meaning. Your body has begun to prepare you for the last completion, for the peace and generosity of silence itself.”
The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Where the Red Fern Grows,
I read A Thousand Splendid Suns when I was going through something difficult. It was heavy but the crying from it helped me find some emotional relief.