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The Places I've Cried in Public by Holly Bourne

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The Places I've Cried in Public
by

Holly Bourne (Goodreads Author)

Glire's review

Sep 15, 2020

really liked it

bookshelves: its-my-party-ill-cry-if-i-want-to, quotable, you-are-my-downfall-you-are-my-muse, you-changed-me, you-give-love-a-bad-name, young-adult

rip my heart.

Amo a Holly Bourne desde que leí It Only Happens in the Movies, es auténtica, sarcástica y honesta. Así que cuando vi este libro no dudé ni un minuto antes comenzar a leerlo. A pesar del título esperaba algo divertido, inteligente, sí, pero también ligero.

Sólo acerté con lo de inteligente.

The Places I've Cried nos muestra el desarrollo y las consecuencias de una relación abusiva, con cruda honestidad. Amelie, la protagonista, está decida a entender que fue lo que salió mal, a entender su dolor para poder superarlo. Para ello decide armar un mapa de recuerdos y recorrer cada punto donde Reese la haya hecho llorar. Es una historia difícil, donde la intensidad va en crescendo, con alta carga emocional y, me atrevo a decir, no para todo público.

Debido a lo angustioso de los temas que trata, no es un libro que se "disfrute", así que el hecho de que gusté o no se reduce a la capacidad del lector para sentir empatia. Sin esto, puede que más de uno se aburra, y lo siento. Con esto, cada página leída será como una puñalada, y también lo siento.

La escritura de Holly continúa siendo genuina y poderosa; aún en los momentos más difíciles logra transmitir la fuerza vulnerable pero resiliente de la juventud, sin caer en melodrama. Esto hizo que todo se sintiera aún más auténtico... y yo sufrí las puñaladas. Lloré como hace mucho no lloraba con un libro: de tristeza pero también de alivio... que refrescante es ver una afección mental tratada con el respeto que merece.

En resumen, uno de mis favoritos de este año, un libro importantisimo que muestra:
- lo fácil que es perdernos
- que es difícil, pero también posible, volver a encontrarnos
- el poder de la terapia como herramienta de sanación
- y, por sobre todo, la importancia de escucharnos (aún cuando nadie más lo haga)

“I can take my journey and my scars and I can use the lessons they gave me to ensure my future path has fewer tears in it. There’s a trail of salt across the country, from the tears that rolled down my cheeks, but it ends here.

I hardly ever cry any more.”

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Quotes Glire Liked

“What is love?
Maybe it's something else. Maybe it's not what we've been told it its. Maybe it's boring words like security and safety, warmth and growth. Maybe it's the comfort of knowing someone really well and them knowing you back. Maybe it's kisses where you sometimes bump noses but you can laugh it off? Maybe it's never getting butterflies because you always know where you stand?”
― Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

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“You never know if happy memories are going to become sad ones. They glow and shine in the vast realms of our subconscious, making that part of our brain feel like it’s filled with glitter. We pick them up and cradle them like expensive cats, or wriggle into them like they are jumpers we’ve left to warm on a radiator. Until the day when, for one reason or another, life can suddenly make this happy memory into a sad memory instead. Good memories exist in the naivety of not knowing any better.”
― Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

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“Sometimes that's all you can do in life, when it comes to pain - try and understand it. We all carry scars and scorch marks around with us. We cuddle up each night with ghosts of damaging memories - we let them swirl around our heads, never able to settle or heal because we can't make sense of this terrible thing that happened to us, and why we're finding it so impossible to get over. You can't force pain to leave until it's ready to.”
― Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

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“Crying is a very obvious sign that something isn’t going right in your life. You should not ignore tears.”
― Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

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“I wonder how many times in a given second girls are told that their guts are wrong? Told our tummies are misfiring, like wayward fireworks. No, no, no, dear, it’s not like that at all. Where did you get that from? I promise you that’s not the case. You are overreacting. You are crazy. You are insecure. You are being a silly little thing. And, then, days or weeks or even years later, we look back on The Bad Thing that happened to us because we ignored all the signs, and we say to ourselves I wish I had listened to my gut.”
― Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

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“There are so many memories, lurking in all the spaces of everywhere. They lie trapped like frozen ghosts, existing only when someone who knows of that memory thinks about that particular time and place and their mind reactivates it. We walk through these ghosts all the time, not knowing we tread the footprints of another person’s story. Just one bench on top of a viewpoint could be harbouring so many stories. It could be the bench where a couple broke up, or where another couple had their first kiss. It could be the bench where someone thought about taking their own life, or where they got the phone call that something amazing had happened. Layered in just one bench there’s an infinite amount of memories. Multiple people living near one particular bench could all share it as special without even knowing each other. We leave behind echoes of our lives everywhere we go, trapping them into the fabric of the world around us.”
― Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

tags: memories

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