Bittersweet

A girl who feels too much, a broken child living in a growing body, mimicking a life she's trying to achieve and build for herself---a story about coping, not just existing but living and loving. Ruelle Farha is a gallery of trying, attempting not to be a museum of failure. She strives to live the life she deserves, remain strong, and cry less, and though loving him comes easily, she wants to learn how to be loved by Theodore Mercer, accepting that she deserves it.

Keeping a little piece of everyone she meets, her shattered heart is held together by the glue of her seemingly unrequited love for Theo. Under a night sky littered with stars that mock their fragile love, they struggle with unspoken words and lingering touches, too much has lived and died between them. They don't understand that the worst way to love someone is quietly and from a distance. As the saying goes, 'To love is to be changed,' and change is Rue's biggest fear. Will she live and love without letting the war in her mind taint her heart?

She writes because no one listens---what if he's the first to hear her? He stays silent because no one listens---what if she's the first to hear him?

'Alas, the lovers lay with hands entwined---his in hers, unlovable together.'