My favourite love stories and why I love them

Dec 1, 2017

There’s something to be said for stories about unrequited love. I love them so much because there’s an unforgettable, sweet sentimental realness to them.

While I write stories that have a happy ending, I’m drawn to stories which tug at my heartstrings, make me tear up and go for a box of tissues, and wish they didn’t have to end that way. These are the love stories that touch your heart and linger on, long after you’ve read them.

Here, in reverse order, are my top three favourite love stories:

3. The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
I actually watched the movie before I read the book, and then I realised how much more meaningful the love story was in the book. The thoughts of the heroine were so beautiful etched that it doubled my pleasure of the story more than the movie had, and of course, when actors like rugged photographer Clint Eastwood, and country housewife, Meryl Streep, ruled the screen time, love simply radiated through this story. I rooted for these two. A deeply poignant story about what it is to want someone you cannot have, to cherish that love briefly and then to lose it forever.
2. Me before you by Jojo Moyes
What is it about taking care of an invalid and falling in love with him that appeals to so many women out there? Either we love our motherly roles to the hilt, or we love tearjerkers. Any which way, this one was an intense story which could not have had any other ending but the one that’s out there, again calling for a box of tissues. I had the opportunity to read the book and watch the movie. The beautiful English village, the creative, talented and funny Louisa Clark, and the scenes so carefully chosen, delighted my senses and made up at some deeper level for the loss at the end.
1. The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin spun a tale that was so satisfying on so many levels that this is my number 1 choice. Not only was this book about a bookstore, books and stories — three of my favourite things in the world — but also about an obnoxious bookseller called AJ, who I came to love as the book progressed. This wasn’t truly an unrequited love story but the ending did call for a box of tissues.

On a closing note, we pine for what we cannot have, sometimes we’re lucky to have found love in this lifetime, if only to have lost it to a memory that will die only with us.

To all lovers and love stories out there, may there be love in your life always, or a memory that refuses to fade away and breathes life into your soul with every passing day.

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