I've been reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower lately. In English language. Because I believe no publisher in my country would want to publish it in our language. Because the culture is different and a bit inappropriate for the people who live in where I live. :|
If Emma Watson and Logan Lerman don't play the movie, maybe I don't want to read it either. But if you live in a country like the US or something then it may be a good book to read because you can relate it to your life. And there are a lot of song and book recommendations. I found some nice quote anyway. :)
I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist.
So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.
"But I just have never heard anyone use the words "corpulent" and "jaundice" ever in my life. That includes teachers. So, what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably?"
"How about your favorite book?"
"This Side of Paradise by From. Scott Fitzgerald."
"Why?"
"Because it was the last one I read."
"But I love him!" I had never seen my sister cry that much.
"No, you don't."
"I hate you!"
"No, you don't." My dad can be very calm sometimes.
"I feel infinite."
"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."
"So, I watched the show for a few minutes, but it made even less sense to me than the book, so I decided to do my math homework, which was a mistake because math has never made any sense to me."
"I know that you know that I like Craig. And I know that I told you not to think of me that way. And I know that we can't be together like that. But I want to forget all those things for a minute. Okay?"
"Okay"
"I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you. Okay?"
"Okay" She was crying harder now. And I was, too, because when I hear something like that I just can't help it.
"I just want to make sure of that. Okay?"
"Okay"
And she kissed me. And it was the kind of kiss that I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
"Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework"
"So, I decided to find another place to go and figure out why people go there."
"I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like."
"But because things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody."
"I almost didn't get an A in math, but then Mr. Carlo told me to stop asking "why?" all the time and just follow the formulas. So, I did. Now, I get perfect scores on all my tests. I just wish I knew what the formulas did."
"But try to be a filter, not a sponge."
"But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there."
"I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have."
"So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is. But right now I'm here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do."
She waited patiently for my answer. But after everything she said, I figured that I should just do what I wanted to do. Not think about it. Not say it out loud. And if she didn't like it, then she could just say so. And we could go back to packing."
After I finished this book honestly I don't understand how it feels to be infinite (look at the quotes above in bold). Is it a kind of feeling that you think you're free and you have no limit on everything you do? Or when you think the time seems like it doesn't exist? :/
What do you think?
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