Wednesday, July 01, 2009

If you could see me now

I just read finished the book "If You Could See Me Now" by Cecelia Ahern... the same author as the book P.S.I Love you. If you are into romance ... this book is worth reading!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You_Could_See_Me_Now_(Cecelia_Ahern_novel)

The last time i read ps i love you, i read it so quickly so as to know what happened and missed the whole point of reading. The book didn't touched me as much as i thought it would be as i was reading it so fast for content and not for the literary quality. Anyway, I would definitely borrow the book again if i saw it on the library shelf.

When i went a few days ago, i came across this other book by Ahern and decided to give it a go. It's a story about forbidden love between an interior designer and her nephew imaginary friend... But what touched me is the way Ahern description of the feelings of the characters.

"When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters, a table leg break, or whe a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for your heart, when that breaks, it's completely silent. You would think as it's so important it would make the loudest noise in the whole world, or even have some sort of ceremonious sound like the gong of a cymbal or the ringing of a bell. But it's silent and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain.If there is a noise, it's internal. It screams and no one can hear it but you. It screams so loud your ears ring and your head aches. It thrases around in your chest like a great white shark caught in the sea; it roars like a mother bear whose cub has been take. That's what it looks like and that's what it sounds like, a thrashing, panicking, trapped great big beast, roaring like a prisoner to its own emotions. But that's the thing about love- NO ONE IS UNTOUCHABLE. It's a wild as that, as raw as an open flesh wound exposed to salty swa water, but when it acutally breaks, it's silent. You're just screaming on the inside and no one can hear it."