Beautiful Disaster is a beautiful, intense, passionate, and a very romantic love story. It's one of those novels that beg to be read over and over again. I, for one, have decided to read this again because I wanted to write a review on the book. I don't know why but I think I fell in love more with the characters. I'm glad I've read it again because I got to revisit my favorite scenes as well as those which I seem to have forgotten.
“To save them, two of the archangels were sent to Earth – Gabriel and Michael. Gabriel (Allegra) was the strongest. She was Michael’s – Charles Force’s twin. His only love. It was her original sacrifice. He only followed out of his love for her. He gave up Paradise to be with her. They were blood bound to each other until she met Stephen. Charles left the family, too a new name and forsook the Van Alen Legacy. When Stephen died, Allegra swore never to take another human familiar to preserve their love. That’s why she does not wake up. She exists between life and death.”
There's no harm in wanting more. Sometimes it's what we need to make us work harder.
With math, as long as you have all the necessary factors, you can find the answer. Life, on the other hand, is so much messier.
"Living is like being chained at the bottom of a shallow pond with my eyes open and no air. I can see distorted image of happiness and light, even hear muffled laughter, but everything is out of my reach as I lie in suffocating agony. If death is the opposite of living, then I hope death is like floating."
"If you can just stop loving her, then you never really loved her at all. Love doesn't work that way. If you ever truly love someone, then it never goes away. It can become something else. There are all different sorts of love. It can even become hate - a thin line and all that - and, really, hate is just another kind of caring."
The state science fair is coming up and Avery decides to use her broken heart as the topic of her experiment. She’s going to find the cure. By forcing herself to experience the seven stages of grief through a series of social tests, she believes she will be able to get over Aiden Kennedy and make herself ready to love again. But she can’t do this experiment alone, and her partner (ex partner!) is the one who broke her heart.
Fine's a funny word, don't you think? I don't think there's another like it in the English language that says so much while actually saying so little. How many wives have told their husbands, "I'm fine," when they really mean, "I want to cut your balls off with a butcher knife?" How many men have told their girlfriends, "You look fine," when they really mean, "You need to go back to the gym and work out - a lot." It's the universal way of saying we're just peachy - when we're really anything but.
Maybe love isn't just a bouquet of roses once in a while. Maybe it's just sticking it out, when it's hard, when you're mad, when you're tired.
Synopsis She is pretty and talented - sweet sixteen and never been kissed. He is seventeen; gorgeous and on the brink of a bright future. And now they have fallen in love. But... they are brother and sister. Seventeen-year-old Lochan and sixteen-year-old Maya have always felt more like friends than siblings. Together they have stepped…
