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Love is not afraid to be schmaltzy. There’s a reason why the most popular love songs are so lyrically simple.

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Love is unattractive. It can expose our worst traits.

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Silver Linings Playbook is one of the Oscar-nominated movie for Best Picture. Naturally, I would want to watch it.

Silver Linings Playbook is the story of Pat Solitano, Jr (Bradley Cooper), his release from psychiatric care and his journey towards reconciling with his wife. It’s also the story of Tiffany Maxwell (Jennifer Lawrence) and her fight to getting back her life from being widowed and troubled sex life. If that isn’t complicated enough, they’d throw in Pat Solitano, Sr (Robert de Niro) who has OCD. This is one mental movie.

The plot isn’t so complex and hard to understand. Pat gets released from the mental facility and then he meets the troubled Tiffany who proposed to help him with his wife if we would participate in a dance competition with her.

The more complicated aspect of the movie are the emotions and the disorders they had to deal with. I am always at the edge of my seat whenever Pat would go into his fits.

I think that it was a touching story which wasn’t so focused on the love aspect but on its discovery. Some movies just shows that these people got together but never the hardship and the understanding of why they should be together. Some movies make a lot of shortcuts to get to the happy ending part. Of course, less than 2 hours is a terribly short time to tell a story of love. But, there should be a better way of doing that.

I was in tears by the end of the movie and I was really moved by Pat’s letter to Tiffany.

Dear Tiffany,

I know you wrote the letter. The only way you could beat my crazy was by doing something crazy yourself. Thank you, I love you. I knew it the minute I met you. I’m sorry it took so long for me to catch up. I just got stuck.

Pat

Dear Tiffany,

I know you wrote the letter. The only way you could beat my crazy was by doing something crazy yourself. Thank you, I love you. I knew it the minute I met you. I’m sorry it took so long for me to catch up. I just got stuck.

Pat Solitano, Silver Linings Playbook

You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

The Lover’s Dictionary

I was a bit intrigued by the books especially on the concept of telling a love story. The Lover’s Dictionary is a set of words that highlights the ups and downs of the relationship of the narrator and her partner.

It was a short read. However, I was a bit disappointed about how the book turned out. My understanding of the story was as messy and complicated as the relationship of the people involved in the story. Despite that fact, I had a little emotional investment with the story because some of the entries are a bit heart-warming and as piercing to the heart. There were a bit more entries that I could relate to. I didn’t imagine that I could have gone through the same experiences as they did.

All in all, there was frustration when I was going through the book. It’s not how I expected it to be and I wanted a lot more juice when it came to the word definitions.

The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations.

The Lover’s Dictionary

Sometimes it becomes a contest: Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

The Lover’s Dictionary

Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. If I wanted to detach completely, I would move my body away. I would stop the conversation mid-sentence. I would leave the bed. Instead, I hover over it for a second. I glance off in another direction. But I always glance back at you.

A Lover’s Dictionary

What I mean is that when people say right person, wrong time, or wrong person, right time, it’s usually a cop-out. They think that fate is playing with them. That we’re all just participants in this romantic reality show that God gets a kick out of watching. But the universe doesn’t decide what’s right or not right. You do. Yes, you can theorize until you’re blue in the face whether something might
have worked at another time, or with someone else.

Sofia, Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares

I mean, what if love isn’t a yes-or-no question? It’s not either you’re in love or you’re not. I mean, aren’t there different levels? And maybe these things, like words and expectations and whatever, don’t go on top of the love. Maybe it’s like a map, and they all have their own place, and then when you see it from the sky—whoa.

Boomer, Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares

The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There’s no getting over that.

Langston, Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares