Where She Went
Gayle Forman, 2011
Young adult RomanceContemporary fiction
A famous rock star and a celebrated cellist, once in love, meet again in New York and have one night to say what three years of silence swallowed.
Feels like longing, grief and hope. About love and freedom.
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What you'd pay again, knowing exactly what it costs.
But I’d do it again. I know that now. I’d make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she’s somewhere out there. Alive. Gayle Forman.Forman worked as a journalist before turning to fiction; her novel If I Stay became a 2014 film starring Chloë Grace Moretz.
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- What is Where She Went like?
- Feels like longing, grief and hope. About love and freedom.
- What should I read after Where She Went?
- If you liked Where She Went, try The Sun Is Also a Star (Nicola Yoon), If He Had Been With Me (Laura Nowlin) and The Selection (Kiera Cass).
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A word for the feeling that someone is already your future.
There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.
The Sun Is Also a Star · Nicola Yoon
Loving someone so long it stops being a feeling and becomes a body part.
I’ve loved him my whole life, and somewhere along the way, that love didn’t change but grew. It grew to fill the parts of me that I did not have when I was a child. It grew with every new longing of my body and desire until there was not a piece of me that did not love him. And when I look at him, there is no other feeling in me.
If He Had Been With Me · Laura Nowlin
A blessing for love that doubles as a warning.
I hope you find someone you can’t live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it’s like to have to try and live without them.
The Selection · Kiera Cass
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