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Add a Quote"A few more minutes Clark, I don't mind not going in yet. I just want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress".
"I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh! but he was loved."
"I need it to end here. No more chair. No more pneumonia. No more burning limbs. No more pain and tiredness and waking up every morning already wishing it was over.... the thing that would make me happier that anything is if you would come with me."
Everything takes time, Will, she said, placing her had briefly on his arm. "And that is something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose."
“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
“And they will have sex once every six weeks and he will adore his children while doing absolutely nothing to actually help look after them. And she will have perfect hair but get this kind of pinched face through never saying what she actually means, and start an insane Pilates habit or maybe buy a dog or a horse and develop a crush on her riding instructor. And he will take up jogging when he hits forty, and maybe buy a Harley-Davidson, which she will despise, and every day he will go to work and look at all the young men in his office or where they went on a jolly and feel like somehow--and he will never be quite sure how--he got suckered.”
“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
-Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
" He was already retreating, withdrawing to somewhere I couldn't reach him. I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual. I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live."
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Add a SummaryGirl going nowhere in her life meets boy going nowhere without his wheelchair. Along the way, they find that money cannot buy happiness, the rich are just like you and me, only more unhappy, and the best things in life are free. In a sense, he's the ideal boyfriend. Sure, he's verbally and mentally abusive, lives in the past, and constantly complains that his life is hopeless and useless. But as the author (incorrectly) surmises, the physically disabled can never have a satisfying sex life, and therefore he cannot make demands that way. And then there is the money; a whole lot of it, which turns out can buy some happiness after all.
Girl becomes fruends with rich guy. Girl starts liking rich guy but he is thinking of suicide since he don't like being in a wheelchair. Girl gives everything she got to make him stay alive and plans trips for them. Guy doesn't change his mind and does assisted suicide anyways, with the girl being sad and upset but later on respected his decision.
Louisa Clark is a chatty, happy, carefree, and rather optimistic 26 year old with a good sense of fashion when she receives her job as a caregiver for Will Turner, a quadriplegic. He has been in an accident 2 years ago, which left him paralyzed from about the middle of the chest down to his toes. He can lift his arms only a few inches, limited movement in his hands, and free movement above his shoulders (head, neck). Louisa and Will have a really rocky relationship at the start but they slowly start to bond, unravel, and learn the most of each other. However, when Louisa learns of Will's shocking plan, she sets out on crazy adventures with him to try to change his mind. She thinks that she is trying to save him, but really, Will might be saving her.
Me Before You is a story about a woman named Louisa Clark and a man named Will Traynor, who didn't always used to be a quadriplegic. Louisa is desperately in need of a job, is one not to be pinned as the smartest, and secretly holds a passion for fashion design. Will used to be the the kind of guy every girl wanted; handsome, rich, fit, outgoing, adventurous, and successful. Now, he's stuck in a wheelchair, pondering his own death while Louisa landed a position to be his caregiver. Trying to show Will the beauty of life and that it's worth fighting for also became part of her job description.
Awesome book: better than the movie, of course! The book is a 10 Kleenex story; the movie, 3. This is a story of loving one's life, of making the most of one's life, and of what it means to love, whether that be in a dysfunctional low income family, like Lou's, or a dysfunctional high income family, like Will's. In this novel Lou learns what it means to live and to love and how precious our time on this earth is.
LibrarySquare
Jan 26, 2016
Louisa Clark takes a job working for Will who is wheelchair bound from an auto accident. Will is anger, bossy and unhappy about his inability to do any simple activities he once did. Lou is to help him get out and about and live life, but Will has other plans. - LibrarySquare
Product Description Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that. What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time
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Add a CommentWow. Not a complimentary wow. I guess every generation needs its teary, disease-of-the-week romance that leaves its audience all uplifted. However, Me Before You is not only a poorly written melodrama, but also preys on the fears of its able-bodied audience. The author heavily hints disabled people live useless, sexless lives, and that for them, suicide is a choice, even THE choice. Her characters may say "no, no!", but the whole slant of the story says "yes, yes!" Before wasting your time with this book, or the movie based on it, please watch the attached video with a disabled man's review. Or google "Me Before You book controversy".
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Good book, although, I do not like the end. Being a quadriplegic doesn’t mean you can’t do things or enjoy life. There are lots of things they can do, life is not over. The end is very depressing. To me, it seemed that for Will, having love in his life wasn’t enough.
As always, book is much better than the movie. The movie skipped esential parts of the story that explain a lot about the characters.
The book ‘Me Before You’ by Jojo Moyes is a romance, fiction story. It contains love, choices and what life actually means and how it is lived by different people. It starts of with Louisa Clark the main character who is very talkative, bubbly, cheerful, hurries to find a job after the cafe shop owned by Frank who had to go back to Australia to see his dad. Louisa was the one in her family that could earn the majority of money so she was under stress of her family. As Camilla, is under pressure to employ someone to help change Will’s mind within 6 months of going to Switzerland to do the Dignitas, after he had an accident and becoming quadriplegic for 2 years, she employed Louisa to help support Will and hopefully change his mind. For the first month, Louisa thought everyday was boring because Will barely talked and thought she was annoying but as the months went on, she realised what Will was planning to do so she puts in all her effort in planning trips, etc just to make Will happy. As days past, they got along very well, where Will talked more and enjoyed Louisa talking. They got up to the point where they fell in love and Louisa confessed on the last trip they went to - Mauritius, which was also the last hope and last chance of convincing Will to change his mind of going to Switzerland but Will knows that he wants to go Switzerland and do the Dignitas so he doesn’t want Louisa feeling miserable. That is when the problem begins to get intense when they actually talk about the plan of going to Switzerland and doing the Dignitas especially when Louisa tried to stop that from happening.
I would really recommend this book for people that want a deeper meaning of life and romance because I personally don’t enjoy reading as much but I could understand the way this book is written. I especially like the meaning of this book, how it gives a lot of detail and special messages that let you understand a bit more about life, or more about how other people live their life. How people try to help out but they don’t exactly know how it feels, where people wouldn’t understand the life behind how a person normally reacts and how not all rich people can be living a good life.
LOVED this book! Will grew up in wealth and had a job that increased his wealth, while Louisa grew up with more modest means and was happy to work at a local cafe. Will lived a BIG life full of adventures before his accident, an accident that left him a quadriplegic. Before the accident, their lives would not have crossed paths, until Will's mother hired Louisa as a caretaker for Will. Louisa and Will got off to a rocky start, but slowly they warmed up to each other and even showed the other what it means to live life to its fullest.
This story is about growth, love, life, and acceptance. Great and intense story, but make sure to keep tissues handy.
Depressing. If you are okay with euthanasia, you may suport the theme, but being a quadriplegic is not a reason to selfishly take your own life.
What a great book...couldn't put it down!
Cried at the end!!! Beautiful story of tragedy, loss & unselfish love! A must read.
The lives of an English working class young woman and a wealthy young man come together when the young man suffers a tragic accident. Heartfelt and yet an overall upbeat tone to the story.
This book made me cry, sob actually. But so, so good. Couldn't put it down.
Wow! What an emotional roller coaster ride. The novel takes you laughing to tears inside the covers of the book. Can't judge the quality of the writing but I can tell you that the emotion it invokes is really spectacular. And at the time when Assisted Suicide was a topic of great debate this novel is a commercial success being released in a film as well as the book.