"More than a stunning debut. It is the announcement of a bold new literary voice"
—Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower

I wish that everyone would stop trying to be Badass or cool or Popular. I wish that people weren’t fake and pretence didn’t control relationships that aren’t relationships but merely stauts facts for the 10 minute claim to popularity everyone is grabbing at. It is tiring and the effort is pointless.
I hate that if you do not exist online or on social media you cease to exist at all. I hate that people can drop you that easily- for the next best thing to move them up the ladder of poularity.
I wonder which generation was the first to have alcohol, drugs and sex control their teenage years. The point when the first people to drink and hook up and loose virginity and go to ‘cool’ parties where all these things happened where the most popular ones. They are badass and cool and people who aren’t kind of fade into the background music just like that. I wonder when people started to spend their teenage years trying to live up to these standards. I wonder then the pressure and exhaustion got the better of them and they started to turn to suicide.