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Maggie May
"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
now time to watch the movie! I have a feeling it is completley different than the book.
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud, or just Charlie St. Cloud, was a decent book. The store did keep me hooked, but I felt some parts needed to be elaborated on more. Some events were rushed, which made them seem unrealistic. It give hope on afterlife, especially if you’ve lost a loved one, in which I have. So I could connect it to my own life. I do recommend this book.
He’ll look back on his quietly remarkable life and know he made good on his promise. And then, like the 75 billion souls who lived before him, each and every one a treasure, he, too, will die.
Now, this time, as he ceased into her again, they merged ineffably.The resistance was gone, and so as the distance. Their bodies coalesced in ways he could not fathom, and the sensation was stirring and soulful. And so, sweeping aside the impossibility of their union, Charlie pushed deeper and deeper into her until he was completely gone.
Earlier, when she had flopped on the bed and they had joined together, it had felt like some mysterious experiment. Could they really touch, let alone make love? Was this even possible? With this disbelief and tentativeness, they had pushed against each other, like fore fields, a flurry of friction and energy, mouth against mouth, hand vs. hand.
She was right there — arching, twisting beneath him — and yet he knew this rapture was fleeting, and it only made him more ravenous. He ran his tongue along her ribs, over her stomach, down her sides, marveling at her nooks and curves. He kissed the points of her hips, then her thighs, and she curled up in giggles.
When it was over, they held on to each other with all their stength. Tess was afraid even to loosen her grip. She was clinging to love and life. Soon Charlie was ready again, and they found their rythm. This time she dissolved into a sublime state that she had not even known in her younger, wilder days. With sparks between every synapse and energy in every cell, the sensation was surreal, like the bliss she had always dreamed of and had almost given up hope of ever finding.
He handled her as if she was weightless, and her anxiety began to melt away. After kissing for the longest time, they began to fold into eachother slowly and smootly, and she felt him fill her completely. For the first time ever, venturing deeper, Tess lost her sense of where she ended and he began.
She didn’t want to let go, but he rolled her over onto her hands, unzipped her jeans, and in one flid motion lifted her up to pull them off. His strength was impressive, and his instincts were very, very good.
She kissed each one gently and then moved lower, gliding her mouth over his stomach and hips, untying his sweatpants, sliding them off. Then her hands wrapped around him, all heat and power, and she revealed in a new discovery. He was the most perfect man she had ever touched.
Then she dived onto him, feeling his warmth against her own. Their fingers touched, and they were together, his arms encircling her waist and her hands moving around his neck. Their kiss was deep, connecting, like a familiar story with a beginning, middle, and end. They caught their breath, and then she kissed his forehead, face, and shoulders.
Trust your heart/If the seas catch fire
And live by love/Though the stars walk backwards.
His hands circled her and he pulled her close. Her body pressed hard against him, and he could tell she was soft where it mattered. She was all there in his arms. There was no mistaking it. She was real.
She looked into his caramel eyes and couldn’t believe her misfortune. She knew it sounded spoony, but she had waited all her life to meet someone like him, and he had been right there all along.
That’s what everyone thinks,” Sam said. “They watch John Edwards on Tv. They read those books about the afterlife. Everyone tells you that when you die, you see the light and you pass on. period. The end. It’s actually more complicated
