Grandiloquent Desires

Grandiloquent Desires

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After his parents' divorce, Charlie Florence began to view love as nothing but an annoyance. He does not care for it, wants no part in it, and believes the world much better off without it. However, things change when his teacher asks him to deliver printouts to Alice Parkinson, a classmate of his who has been absent from school for over a month due to her worsening health condition. When the two meet, Alice makes a peculiar request of Charlie: to become her boyfriend so that she may experience a relationship before she dies. Finding himself unable to refuse her despite his indifference toward love, Charlies agrees to fulfill her final wish. Little does he know, however, that with each second spent with Alice, feelings he has locked deep inside him will begin to emerge once more. Grandiloquent Desires tells the story of a boy who accompanies a girl in the final stages of her life as she helps him rediscover the emotions that he had long given up on.
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Bella is the girl who lost everything to cancer, and her world suddenly revolves around her sickness. She lost her friends, her mother, her confidence. Her life became a series of doctor visits, stories in her head, and hours of making up for the work she misses in school. She never expects anything out of herself or life because she doesn't want to get her hopes up. Everything changes when she gets partnered up for a physics project with Liam. Liam is the opposite of Bella, always looking at the future and keeping his hopes high. But his bipolar mother keeps him back, always derailing his life. Taking care of his mom without his dad, he always buried everything he felt. But when he gets partnered with his childhood crush for a physics project, Bella, his perspective with his mother and himself changes. They challenge each other, impacting their own mindsets and decisions, feelings for each other kindling. When Bella learns the truth of her mother leaving and when she gets to the lowest point in her life, his faith in her strength leads her to believe there's a world that doesn't revolve around her. Bella forces Liam to discover his identity without his mother's life in his hands, uncovering a vulnerable side of him. And to think that their lives together started with a physics project.

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