Slammed & Point of Retreat

“Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realize just how much they belong together”
― Colleen Hoover, Point of Retreat

Tissue please! I was Totally Slammed!

Let me start with an excerpt from one of my favorite poems in the book and tell me how in the world can you not get emotional reading this?

Sometimes, life gets in your way.

It gets all up in your damn way.

But it doesn't get all up in your damn way because it
wants you to just give up and let it take control.

Life doesn't get all up in your damn way

because it just wants you to hand it all
over and be carried along.

Life wants you to fight it.
It wants you to grab an axe and hack through the wood.
It wants you to get a sledgehammer

and break through the concrete.
It wants you to grab a torch and burn through the metal
and steel until you can reach through and grab it.
Life wants you to grab all the organized, the
alphabetized, the chronological, the sequenced.

It wants you to mix it all together,
stir it up, blend it.

Life doesn't want you to let it tell you that your little
brother should be the only thing that comes first.
Life doesn't want you to let it tell you that your career
and your education should be the only thing

that comes in second.
And life definitely doesn't want me
To just let it tell me
that the girl I met,
The beautiful, strong, amazing, resilient girl
That I fell so hard for
Should only come in third.

Life knows.
Life is trying to tell me
That the girl I love,
The girl I fell
So hard for?
There's room for her in first.
I'm putting her first.”

This is when you say....ahhhhhhhh! (sigh, Laken is such a lucky girl!!!)

Definitely ~~one of my favorite book series my~~ my favorite series of all time! The story line, the poetry, the heartbreaking situations and the love between the characters are just perfectly awesome! It just hits you big time! I laughed, I cried and I even ended up loving the Avett Brothers.

Colleen Hoover allowed me to feel the story as if I was on their shoes. Feeling the hurt, the love, and the complications. There was even a time when I have to stop reading and was forced to put the book down so I could gather myself again. The characters and their participation in the story are very well thought off and perfectly written. I truly adore them!

I always have a soft spot for poetry and reading this book made me wish I could write and perform one, too. Both books talked about real life situations. Its about love for the family, taking responsibilities, strong bonds of friendship, fighting for love...its about priorities, taking decisions, committing mistakes and learning from them...its about moving on and deciding when to finally stop carving pumpkins!

A butterflying-tastic book that you can't help but fall in love with!

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