Love and Other Words
Christina Lauren, 2018
A second-chance romance about first love, old books, and the words people can’t take back—for anyone who has ever reread a message from an almost.
Feels like longing, tenderness and hope. About love, memory and time.
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What it sounds like to wait eleven years without making it an accusation.
I’ve been waiting for you to come home for eleven years. I’ll go anywhere you go. Christina Lauren.Christina Lauren is the pen name of two writers, Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, who co-write every book together.
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- What is Love and Other Words like?
- Feels like longing, tenderness and hope. About love, memory and time.
- What should I read after Love and Other Words?
- If you liked Love and Other Words, try All Your Perfects (Colleen Hoover), One Day in December (Josie Silver) and Dear John (Nicholas Sparks).
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The loneliest version of alone is the one you learn after being loved.
I used to be fine when I was alone. But now that I have you, I’m lonely when I’m alone.
All Your Perfects · Colleen Hoover
What you do when the chance is pulling away without you.
No! No! Oh God, don’t you dare drive away from this stop! It’s Christmas! I want to yell, even as the bus pulls out into the traffic and gathers pace, and outside he is breathless standing in the road, watching us leave. I see defeat turn out the light in his eyes, and because it’s Christmas and because I’ve just fallen hopelessly in love with a stranger at a bus stop, I blow him a forlorn kiss and lay my forehead against the glass, watching him until he’s out of sight.
One Day in December · Josie Silver
Some love stories are made mostly of the time in between.
I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can’t believe that ours didn’t go on forever.
Dear John · Nicholas Sparks
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