"At some point you need to get serious about your life...
you've had
luck, so much luck,
and you've been protected from things,
responsibility, money.
But you're an adult now, and one day things might
not be this...
This serene."
This serene."
One Day, David Nicholls
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“…you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that’s okay that’s alright because we’re all meant to be like that at twenty-four.”
| — | David Nicholls (One Day) |
Oh la di da! Apologies if these INSPIRATIONAL quotes have scare you off. I know I'm not even close to twenty-four but it's just so freakingly relatable when I'm in my 'late nineteen' you know. So, right after finishing One Day by David Nicholls I was gob smacked by both the book and movie's ability to crash souls and its intimacy as if inside you have Dex and Em with you, all along. I bet everybody agrees if you have read the book. And this is the cue for you: Do not miss this book. READ IT! It's about a love story; it's a heavy lesson; it's about how-you-wasted-years-and-realized-she's-the-one-and-you-think-you're-so-stupid-for-not-realizing-that; it's real life. And warning, sadness will linger with you the whole day once you finish it. (This is supposed to be encouraging ughh)
Tuesday, the book tore me close to tears with its eerily beautiful and sad and compelling paragraph of love, friendship, time and tragedy. The tragedy which made me realized "whatever happens tomorrow, we had today" and always live your life to the fullest like today is your last. Though it just isn't fair to make the readers cry. I even find myself couldn't bear to continue on with the story after Part Four tragedy. *Puss-big-eyes-stare-meme here** Then I finally rewarded myself with the movie adaptation and this time I was really, really, really, really, emotionally wrecked.
“She didn’t feel like an adult. She was in no
way prepared. It was as if a fire alarm had gone off in the middle of
the night and she was standing on the street with her clothes bundled up
in her arms. If she wasn’t learning, what was she doing? How would
she fill the days? She had no idea.
And oh oh oh! Thanks to the perfect casting, I got to know this sexy angel, Jim Sturgess. I know, a very new name right? I don't know him either, not before watching the movie anyway. Okay where was I, oh, ahem. I'll try to sound mature and sensible this time for this gorgeous guy sake so. He is charming and cute and devilish and nerdy and an actor! He's the perfect Dex, I mean he's exactly the same as I imagined him to be when I was reading the book. Great imagination i know i know. But err, that probably is because I saw him in the posters or somewhere from the web before hand. Probably.
Jim Sturgess as Dex in One Day (Focus Features)
“You know what I can’t understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, I mean endlessly, I’ve been telling you for years. So why don’t you believe it? Why do you think people say that stuff? Do you think it’s a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?” — Dexter Mayhew
Dex and Em. Em and Dex. I will learn from your mistakes. Goodbye.
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