THREE WORDS LEFT UNSAID "it's all right," He whispered in my ear, stroking my hair. "You're safe now." "Why are you being so nice to me when everyone is treating me like rubbish?" my hysterical sobs were back. "Aren't you worried about what people might say about you?" His eyes, his dazzling ocean blue eyes, immediately shot straight into me. And for the first time in forever, I saw them glow underneath the moonlight. His hands let go of me before they cupped my face, forching my gaze into his. I never thought i could ever hear these words came out of Ethan's mouth, but it did. And they would surely stick in my mind for the rest of my life. "It doesn't matter what people think about me. For as long as you are with me, that's all I need to be alive"
A collection of bitter, sweet, and bittersweet poems about painful love, true love, happy endings, sad endings, heartaches, falling in love, fall out of love, heartbreaks, being left behind, and leaving someone you love behind. With a total of 120 different poems, words that left unsaid, a three-part poetry collection, will make you smile and cry at the same time. A poetry collection that makes you realize how happy and painful is when you enter the world called ... love
Manas and Ritu are two very different people from two different backgrounds. They end up in Chennai to pursue engineering. This novel talks about how these two became friends and then best friends. In due course of time Manas gets more and more attached to her emotionally. An unexpected turn of events leads to Manas facing the biggest nightmare ever.
"I wait for him, the cold seeping through my clothes, until it finally dawns on me that he's not coming back. And I wonder why he chose her instead of me? Why he went looking for her when I was right there." Tai and Juliet have been best friends forever - since they met at kindy and decided to get married in first grade. They understand each other in the way that only best friends can. They love music, beach walks, energy drinks and, they are slowly discovering, each other. As they begin to dream of adventures beyond the HSC - a future free of homework, curfews and parents, a life together - their plans are suddenly and dramatically derailed. For Tai is sick. And not everything you wish for can come true. A poignant story of first love, hope, grief, family, and the twistedness of life. Shortlisted for Prime Minster's Literary Award Young Adult Fiction 2013
Words Left Unsaid captures the emotions of a girl, often too afraid to speak her mind, let alone express how she's feeling. When writing, that fear and hesitation fades away, and what remains are the words stuck in her head, now out on paper. This book contains three central themes. Love, Loss, and Life. I never intended to write about them but when I looked back on my words and their meanings, I found that they all belonged in one of these categories. I don't know if I've ever been "in love", yet the subject has been my favorite to write about. It's full of possibilities, sad and happy. Loss is something everyone has experienced and I felt like whether it was good or bad it ties us all together and is important to share. As for life, here we are, living it, I just put down moments onto paper so that I can remember the way they felt. I hope you enjoy: The Words Left Unsaid.
…During my school days, I read a poem; “A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds and when the weeds begin to grow it's like a garden full of snow and when the snow begins to fall it's like a bird upon the wall and when the bird away does fly it's like an eagle in the sky and when the sky begins to roar it's like a lion at the door and when the door begins to crack it's like a stick across your back and when your back begins to smart it's like a penknife in your heart and when your heart begins to bleed you're dead, and dead, and dead indeed.” ―Percy B. Green .. And fell in love with poetry. Never did I think though, that I will end up writing a poem let alone a book, but that’s life. You cannot do what you want to do but end up doing what you never believed you would. For me that was writing a poetic verse, a poem, a poetry book. It was not as if I planned writing it, over the years, during different times, phases of life, happy and sad moments, when I needed to express my feelings, I kept on writing stuff off and on my blog and then one day I thought, why not collect everything and publish a book. I have tried to compile a variety of genres here such as love, patriotism, sadness, happiness, humour, real life events, dialogues, emotions, thoughts, religion, and observations. I am in no way saying it will be worth reading, but I hope people reading this will try to absorb themselves in the words the same way I did when i was writing them.
2022 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Phenomenal Book Club Pick! For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut following a young Vietnamese-Australian woman who returns home to her family in the wake of her brother’s shocking murder, determined to discover what happened—a dramatic exploration of the intricate bonds and obligations of friendship, family, and community. Just let him go. These are the words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger brother Denny out to celebrate his high school graduation with friends. That night, Denny—optimistic, guileless, brilliant Denny—is brutally murdered inside a busy restaurant in the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta, a refugee enclave facing violent crime, an indifferent police force, and the worst heroin epidemic in Australian history. Returning home to Cabramatta for the funeral, Ky learns that the police are stumped by Denny’s case: a dozen people were at Lucky 8 restaurant when Denny died, but each of the bystanders claim to have seen nothing. Desperately hoping that understanding what happened might ease her suffocating guilt, Ky sets aside her grief and determines to track down the witnesses herself. With each encounter, she peels back another layer of the place that shaped her and Denny, exposing the seeds of violence that were planted well before that fateful celebration dinner: by colonialism, by the war in Vietnam, and by the choices they’ve all made to survive. Alternating between Ky’s voice and the perspectives of the witnesses, Tracey Lien’s extraordinary debut is at once heart-pounding and heart-rending as it probes the intricate bonds of friendship, family, and community through an unforgettable cast of characters, all connected by a devastating crime. Combining evocative family drama and gripping suspense, All That’s Left Unsaid is a profound and moving page turner, perfect for readers of Liz Moore, Brit Bennett, and Celeste Ng.
We've all been there. We've all had a time where we wanted to say something, but couldn't. We wanted to scream until our lungs gave out, but didn't. These are all the words that I have left unsaid.
