They make me feel like I'm not good enough. Not pretty enough. Not popular enough. Too different. Too outspoken. Too demanding. Too weird.
I refuse to give up. They use me and abuse me but I keep searching and hoping, laying my heart in trusted hands.
There is someone just as broken and longing for love and connection like me — for me. Isn't there?
Until I find you, my soul shall not rest. My dreams forever be haunted...
A memoir written in poetic verse and the first collection in the Fragile Heart Series, the author shares her personal journal entries over the years in the quest to find her person.
From the back cover:
This collection of poetry consists of six unique parts. It is a personal journey through the phases of lust, love, loss, and all the heartache, exhilaration, and self-discovery in between. Words to remind you, although you may feel broken, you will heal. Although you may feel inadequate, you are enough. And you will gain the capacity to love again.
When you do, devour every piece of it — unforgivably.
May you be willing to open your heart to love and other company.
Reading order:
love and other company
and yet I feel
what forever feels like
E.M. Handly, writing as Celia Sinclair, has been writing poetry since her first real heartbreak. Journaling nearly every experience thereafter, for years.
With her fair share of being in every kind of relationship imaginable, her debut poetry collection Love and Other Company, is the beginning of her story. But it isn’t close to being the end of it.
With her simplistic style, Sinclair shows us how it’s possible to continue after the heartache and love as much as we can with fragile force, while balancing the innate needs between human connection and a sense of self.
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