Rating: 7/10
Overall Thoughts
Categorized into four parts: Lost, Found, Hope, and Short Stories, 'Midnight Monologues' is a book that majority of us can and will relate to at some point in our lives, especially if you are currently going though a break up.
Being in her twenties, the author is unquestionably gifted to be able to write so effortlessly and with such poetic melody. Extra brownie points for being a Malaysian.
Perfect read during a rainy day with a cup of coffee (or tea).
Favourites from 'Lost'
"I never understood the gravity of the problem,
Until you fell for another solution."
......
"Leave me alone; I need to think about us.
Leave me alone; I need to think.
Leave me alone.
Leave me.
Leave."
......
"Your taste in men had me salty,
And the salt of my tears, mixes with the bitterness of reality.
Your quickness of loving another had me bitter,
Well, clearly I should have known better.
My many lonely hours had me sour,
And the things I did to forget you,
I couldn't feel any lower.
However,
Every night before my mind falls asleep,
My eyes recognize your colors once more -
My tongue remembers the sweetness of your lips,
As I relished what's left of what we had before."
......
'They told her that they were not worth her perfection,
And that she should search for a mind that matches her own,
With that on every man's thoughts and reflections,
The imperfectly perfect girl was left perfectly alone."
......
"So, have you worked it out yet?"
"We are definitely on the same page,
if only we were holding the same books."
......
"Liking him is never tough,
It isn't hard when he has his laugh.
She'll see him again tonight at dinner,
Anything,
To see his smile again on this stranger.
And she'd think that this love would never die,
When all she loves are his familiar eyes.
"He's just my type," she lies to her family members,
For there was no type but t'was a man that he resembles.
She knew he was the closest that she could get,
To the man she could never forget.
"He would never be him," she broods,
With a sigh, "But I guess he'll do." "
Favourites from 'Found'
"Looking through the windows of my soul was unsatisfactory,
So you bulldozed the walls I've built to keep you out,
Indefinitely.
You burrowed into my life with curiosity and caution,
And found my most valuable possession, my devotion."
......
The truth in you eyes conquered every single lie in mine."
......
"Hold my face in your hands -
and tell me that you love me,
And I'll hold your world in mine,
ridding its risk of ever crumbling.
Favourites from 'Hope'
"Love
For
Trouble
Causes
Hate
-
Hate
Causes
Trouble
For
Love"
......
"Improve," breathes my inner voice;
"Be the chooser, and never the choice."
......
"Sharp minds deflate impossible egos."
......
"I will engulf you with a light so bright,
you will never know your shadow again."
......
"There are those who love themselves and only themselves,
And then there are those who love everyone else but themselves.
With one so selfish and the other so helpless,
I am sure there is a way to solve this imbalance.
These two could learn a lot from each other,
If one deposits love and one humbles the other,
This world would finally have a proud human race,
If we only knew where to love in the first place."
