our chemical hearts is about a boy -henry- who unexpectedly fell in love with the new girl in school, grace. The problem was that grace was broken, figuratively and literally. Henry expected this big love story was about to happen, except it didn’t.
this story was filled to the brim with pain. It wasn’t those “fluffy” love stories it was real and raw. There wasn’t any filter they just gave you the story how it is. And I don’t mind that because it’s the truth. We can hide ourselves with fantasies and makeup stories but that won’t help you with reality.
It was filled with many beautiful words; the kind of words I absolutely love in a novel. it was filled with the words that make you think and feel, you can feel the emotions inside you.
Nonetheless the book was great I wouldn’t put it up with my favorite books but it was great. Henry was the dreamer type (like me) so I related to him A LOT. His thoughts and his perspective on some things are the same as me. so I liked him a lot and found him great and he learned a lot from his experience and developed from it.
I felt the most surge of emotion while reading this book was when henry was heartbroken because of grace and his sister talked to him about love. I felt so much emotion that I couldn’t help myself, I felt like I would explode if I didn’t write these emotions on paper. But whatever I wrote could never explain the emotion I was feeling and it would never explain the emotion of love. Love is an emotion that is so complicated and powerful that you can never how much you tried can never explain it.
“We were characters out of a movie.
We were thoroughly alive.
And we were absolutely beautiful.”
Those words were said by henry when he had a photoshoot with grace and they were having fun and laughing and then he saw the photo a few days later. I love this quote because I think this feeling is amazing, the feeling of looking at a picture of yourself but you don’t recognize yourself. It’s like you don’t know yourself while you are you, it’s like looking at another person. Uncandid pictures capture the moments you don’t know you needed.
“Some things are more beautiful when they’ve been broken.”
I like this quote because its true. People think they want the perfect human with no problems and just unreal. Those type of people filter everything including their emotions. They see who the person is and what the situation is and pick a mask according to that. That’s just being fake because they don’t want you to see the real raw them, they don’t want you to see the broken parts so they just cover themselves whole with the gold so you can’t see it.
“I slip into my head and keep falling deeper into the abyss. I forget the world exists.”
I put this quote here because I relate to it. I do this sometimes especially if I’m with other people. I just fall into my head so deep, it’s like I’m in the ocean and I’m drowning and there’s nothing I could do to help myself. It’s like my soul is somewhere far away and as much as I try to bring it back it doesn’t come back. And its pain I really hate when this happen. I feel out of control.
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”