Me Before You
Large Print - 2013
1410455300
9781594137396


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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.
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.

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 CommentMe Before You is a romance novel set in a small town in England. It follows a young woman named Lou Clark, who searches for a job after losing her previous one at a cafe. She ends up at the house of Will Traynor, a paraplegic man who needs help doing almost anything. I liked the book and its message, but it was not a classic fairytale romance. It highlighted several negative aspects to both Lou and Will's life. The writing and story have you feeling for the characters. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting a slower change of pace from the popular fast-paced young adult romance novels.
Gosh darn it, this book made me mad. I get it, I do, the ending had to be somewhat realistic, but after reading the whole thing, I wanted it to be the predictable, cheesy ending. And it wasn't. Darn you, Jojo Moyes.
Absolutely love Jojo Moyes. Beautiful writing, amazing characters, and she is so deep. I always want more when I finish one of her books.
I totally loved this book. I love that it had a little of everything. It was funny/sad/serious/fun. I cant wait to read the others. I love Lou's Character. Reminds me a lot of myself
Very smooth reading book. The characters are pretty genuine and still interesting. Let's you get into the life of someone with spinal cord injury. Not all of us are Stephen Hawking or Christopher Reeves.
Good traditional summer read.
Definitely a tear jerker.
I just read several comments in this long list, and can't believe how many glossed over the deep insight the author has!! Here I sit in my power wheelchair, typing with one finger, quarantined, my caregivers coming in with meds. every 3 or 4 hours. I am bored, depressed angry, irritable, snapping at people!! Tears are always at the brink, as I watch my life dissolve, melt, and vanish into thin air. And when "friends" say things like "oh, but look at all that you have and be grateful for it", I feel like they are pushing my head under water, and holding it til I say "okay, okay, I am grateful! But I am not. They don't have a clue!! I also lost my love. He sat here and told me about my replacement, and not a dam thing I could do about it. I am still in here!! I am still a viable person! I hope someone out there will understand and be my Louise.
Great story about an ethical dilemna. Good characters.
A very thought provoking story about a painful life challenge - no spoilers. Makes one wonder if someone in real life was in this same predicament, would medical cannabis change the outcome?
Just another reread so that I can read the final, Still Me.