Love Is Honest {Link Up}

Well, Hello There July.. please be kind to me!

I wasn't going to post today but last night I received a lovely email from Miche at Buttons and Birdcages about Linking Up The Love which basically is about sending some love into the world whether it's to a stranger on the street or your closest family members... And well, I'm always into sharing the love. 

I also though this would be a good time to share something that has been on my mind for a while.. You see some love stories are so precious they shouldn't be shared but today I'll share a snippet with you...

I was just a girl in bar, hanging out.. drinking in the surroundings when you caught my eye. I knew you were there when I walked in but dare not actually look over. It was clearly Boys night and I had no intention of being drawn into your night's entertainment until the moment we locked eyes...

You see, before that, I was a girl who had loved so honestly but had been cut so deep by betrayal that I didn't think I had the potential to feel anything more than a dull hum in my heart. But then there was you, when you looked at me I was completely taken off guard by how beautiful you were. And while I am aware it is not PC to call a man beautiful, when you see a beautiful man you just feel it because handsome or gorgeous are inadequate terms for true beauty. 

Forgive me, I digress, when we shared our first moment, I immediately blushed and looked away saying to my friend  "Oh my G..., he's looking at me" to which she nonchalantly replied "So, look back?" and when I did, you were still looking watching me with the same intensity as before my blushing moment.. the longer we held our gaze the more I felt my heart start to heal. I broke our connection again but every time I looked up, which was several times before we actually spoke, you were there observing me with your intensely beautiful eyes.

You are beautiful and intense and your raw emotion healed me in more ways than I could ever explain. I thought incapable of love after my previous heart break but you started patching my heart which was previously shredded and made me believe that someone could look at me and  make me feel love the way I always wanted and for that moment alone, I love you...

While this is not the end of our story, it is the end of this post because frankly, I think I've overexposed myself more than enough for today.

Has a stranger ever changed your life? Did you tell them... tell me about it in the comments :) 

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The Most Romantic Declarations of Love {TV Series}

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It feels like I haven't been around here for a while although this post has been a draft for several days and actually finishing it off has taken more time then I thought it would... it's just been one of those weeks. Wish I could share it with all of you but firstly some of you wouldn't care (no judgment, here) and secondly there is stuff I actually prefer to keep off my blog. Anyway, back to what this is about -

This post was prompted by this article I found on Twitter and let's be honest it is spot on. Shonda Rhimes sure knows what she's doing when it comes to writing love speeches but a few of my favourite love scenes/declarations were not included because Shonda didn't write them so here we go, some of my favourite scenes, tell me if I missed anything?

Setting the tone but it didn't make my top 10

Cristina never heard possibly the best vows ever written.

10.  When Meredith almost died (for the first time)

Meredith knew she was going to have a bad day and boy did she ever. Derek was doing the honourable thing by staying with his wife, Addison, even though he was still in love with Mer. When she almost died because she put her hand on a bomb (not a good idea) but in this scene she explains that she was going to die and she couldn't remember the simplest sweetest moment between her and Derek, what was their last kiss. The fact that he does, in such sweet detail makes the moment so beautiful. 

9. "Watch me choose you"

I watched this on tender hooks, Fitz said he'll choose Liv and I didn't expect him to wait with her. It's not so much the chemistry in this scene as opposed to how much it meant.

8. Kate kisses Sawyer

This is an old one but this was an incredibly anticipated moment! Kate sent the first two seasons fighting the obvious chemistry between her and Saywer. I remember literally sighing when I watched it the first time.

7.  MerDer Proposal

While this may surprise the Greys fans out there that it features so late, you can only imagine how many I had to push off the list for this to make it on here. Even though we knew it was coming, Derek took the proposal that we all hoped for and made it perfect! Shonda outdid herself with the most beautiful love story! It's medical, collaborative and one of a kind, which is what their love is.

6. Burke's love for Cristina was consuming

While it doesn't seem like the deepest moment, we all knew that Isaiah Washington was being written off the show due to his homophobic rants at T.R.Knight but the truth is the Preston Burke loved Crisitina Yang. He saw her flaws, he saw her potential and he loved her. When the reports came through that he would be returning to Greys, I was excited. I always felt that Burke and Yang's relationship was never completely finished and frankly, I'm just not a fan of Owen/Cristina. Even if I was, this was beautifully said!

5. Elena isn't sorry

Elena finally has clarity, she doesn't feel obligated in any way to Stefan. She sees that she wasn't being tricked into her feelings for Damon, it's real, she's in love and she's not sorry. Best TVD scene ever!

4. It's you

I was completely obsessed with this show and this couple. I watched for seasons while Lucas kept making the wrong choices. It was difficult but I loved that they always had a connection and finalllllllllllllly Luke woke up and saw it for himself. It wasn't a long speech but it was one of my favourite TV declarations, ever!

3."I'm nothing and you're everything"

Another stellar scene, President Grant sure knows how to use his words well.

2. Meredith lays it on the line and says the one thing no woman ever wants to have "Pick Me"

I really battled to choose between this one and my number 1 pick but the truth is for Mer and Derek, this was a pivotal moment. This was the scene where they went from being a couple who was dating to being the greatest love story ever to come out of Greys Anatomy. Meredith put her heart (and PRIDE) on the line when she begged Derek to choose her. Instead of it being seen as pathetic and needy, it was heartbreaking, brave and true.

1. "You own me!"

THIS is my best love declaration scene ever! Both of them stating how much they loved one another but neither conceding that the other person could possible love them more. It;s beautiful and well written and left me in tears.

That's it folks! I had a number of other moments to include but couldn't bare to push any of these out of this list.. but please let me know what you would have added in your list?

Have an awesome weekend!

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The Fault in Our Stars (John Green) - Blogger Book Club

"That's the thing about pain," Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. "It demands to be felt."

This book is beautifully written with the obvious tragedy and yet I still could not put it down.

The love is beautiful in this book. It's sad, funny and at times heartbreaking but beautiful all through it. 

With Hazel Grace being a cancer sufferer, I enjoyed the fact that she did not bullshit (sorry for the use of this word) how she loves to live life to the full because of her cancer instead she's honest. There are definitely good days but she also shared the bad days which made me like her so much more. 

I loved the initial connection between Hazel and Gus (because I am a sucker for romance), from the first few lines of her describing being in the room with him, it was just clear how much this could grow. 

The thing I particularly enjoyed about the book was that it illustrated the scary and sad paradox of dying being that dying allows one the opportunity to completely open up and simultaneously close one's self off from others.

Gus' way of speaking to Hazel at times took my breath away. Their love story is beautiful and heartbreaking like just about every Epic Love Story ever told.

"Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence"

I know the movie is going to be coming out later this year and I can't wait to watch it all I hope is that the actors portraying Hazel, Gus and especially Hazel's dad are all convincing in their love.

Linking up with Kay's Best Intentions for the blogger book club review.

Have you read this book? Will you watch the movie?