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A review by i_love_big_books
A Breath Too Late by Rocky Callen
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
"Hope can’t be a hollow wish or dream. It needs to be filled, levied, brimming over with intention and action and belief and reaching, reaching, reaching, stretching until your muscles ache because you want it that damn much, and you won’t stop reaching until you hold it.
Until it is yours.
I let go too soon."
"Life,
You were broken, often ugly, and always too much, but you also hid promises in pockets, tucked hope under mattresses, and crammed a thousand perfect moments between the shards of sharp and treacherous ones.
I am sorry I had forgotten them.
I am sorry I didn’t even see.
And a breath too late, I realized …
I loved you."
"We are birds with paper wings. Just because the wings were tattered, doesn’t mean they could never fly. It doesn’t mean that their little fragile lives were worth nothing."
Beautiful words from this sad and haunting story that will always stay with me.
How I wished Ellie's mother could have shown her strength a little earlier so that this hope and love for life could have been Ellie's saviour too.
A very difficult book to read because of the topics it is about. Having said that it has a message that is very very essential.
Heart wrenching but true.
Until it is yours.
I let go too soon."
"Life,
You were broken, often ugly, and always too much, but you also hid promises in pockets, tucked hope under mattresses, and crammed a thousand perfect moments between the shards of sharp and treacherous ones.
I am sorry I had forgotten them.
I am sorry I didn’t even see.
And a breath too late, I realized …
I loved you."
"We are birds with paper wings. Just because the wings were tattered, doesn’t mean they could never fly. It doesn’t mean that their little fragile lives were worth nothing."
Beautiful words from this sad and haunting story that will always stay with me.
How I wished Ellie's mother could have shown her strength a little earlier so that this hope and love for life could have been Ellie's saviour too.
A very difficult book to read because of the topics it is about. Having said that it has a message that is very very essential.
Heart wrenching but true.