"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

Since I read Love Letters to the Dead I understood some things. I tried to forget you telling me that I wasn’t thinking about you but I haven’t succeeded. I know you don’t go unterstand what I will tell because you didn’t read the book but when I first read the passages between Laurel and Sky I found that it was really a perfect relationship and that is what I would have wished with you. I know that there will be nothing between you and me because I ended this relationship and that there this distance and studies but I want you to know I miss you so much and that ever I will forget you. When Laurel written to Kurt Cobain, she often spoke of the song Heart-Shaped Box but I’m still leading Where Did you Sleep Last Night. I just wanna say one last time : I love you. Goodbye Aym.

Eu sinto tanto a sua falta. Eu sonhei com você essa semana, lembra quando seus pais viajaram e a gente fez a maior bagunça na sua casa? Acho que nunca ri tanto como naquele fim de semana. Me desculpa por não ter sido uma amiga melhor, por não ter sido capaz de salvar você de você mesma, por não ter te ajudado da maneira que eu deveria. Por fingir que estava tudo bem. Eu sei que você pensava diferente, mas eu te digo com toda a certeza do mundo: Você era perfeita. Nunca na minha vida eu conheci alguém como você, você era tão inteligente, e tão forte. Eu sempre quis ser um pouco mais como você. Sabe, eu fiquei com raiva de você por muito tempo, eu não conseguia acreditar que você tinha me abandonado, que você tinha sido tão egoísta a ponto de não pensar em mim antes de fazer o que você fez. Eu me culpei também, por não ter tido a coragem de contar pra alguém o que estava acontecendo, por fingir que estava tudo bem, que você podia aguentar tudo aquilo.Eu fui tão ingênua. Mas hoje eu entendo por que fez o que fez. Você pensou que era a ... Read more

Hi I guess. It’s been 2 years since you passed and it feels like just yesterday that you were hugging me and telling me how much you love me. I live you grandma. I know you will never read this but after reading this brilliant novel it just made me want to tell you somethings that have happened in the pass 2 years. For example, mommy wants to get pregnant again. I’m now in the 9th grade. Grandma all I wanted to, and still do, is make you proud. I love you.

You left me, why didn’t you think of others you were effecting when you did this to yourself? I hate you so much for leaving but I love you so much that I cant help but spend my days listening to your Cd’s you made for me. Listening to your voice, smooth and gentle, calming me down until I fall Asleep. I miss you so much, I wish you were so you could hold me and it would be just like old times.. I wish you would have talked to me, I was here. I could have helped and now I hate myself because I didn’t push to find out what was wrong. I’m sorry I let you down.

reading this amazing book has brought back so many memories of our childhood together. You were the first “sister” that I had – my hero. For the longest time, everything I knew I had learned from you. If you were around, I was 100% sure what to do and felt safe and protected. If I am being very honest with myself, it is this feeling that I’ve been missing ever since you left. To be the younger one, to have someone who knows better than me and will guide me. I always felt kind of lost afterwards – I can so much identify with Laurel’s struggles to find her own identity after she has lost her role model Amy.

This book made me cry about you – and how amazing it would have been to grow up with you. But I also cried about myself and about the struggle I’ve been going through without really realizing. And about my sister, and how glad I am to have her, and that I want to stay a good role model for her.

I miss you!

Thanks for the book, I say this because I just finished reading it and definitely can not describe how grateful I am for your great work! I really liked the characters and especially Laurel. I hope a book with the same tone of sincerity and brilliance of “Love Letters to the Dead ”

Thank you

I love you and I love their songs and letters. This year I fell in love with a boy. Early in the year I had depression and now that I’m over, I’m with leukemia. Did not say anything to the kid, but I wish he knew. I wonder expresar my love, just like you and Yoko showed. I wish I could show my courage and my love, how you showed in their music. But now do no good because he loves another. Thank you for your existence. I love you.

the way you left was so peaceful. you were ready for it. you knew what was coming and surrounded yourself with the ones you loved. loved. i’ll never quite get used to the past tense. i feel like i didn’t quite know you well enough. after it happened, we had to go through all your belongings. it felt like stealing. but seeing all these things i learned so much about you, and i wish i had known you or even remembered you before we went to visit and found you bald and too skinny. it scared me so much. things like these aren’t supposed to happen. you were only 35. like a brother to my mom. sometimes, when i can’t sleep, she tells me stories about how you climbed trees together and she dangled by her knees, hair flopping everywhere. i miss you. i miss what could’ve been you. i missed you.

It has been a year already (and almost 2 on December) and still it feels like it just happened yesterday.

I know that this would never reach you but I’m still writing anyway.. I really miss you, Mommy 🙁 You’ve left me so suddenly. Now that you’re gone, I don’t have someone to hug to or play jokes at (Sorry about that. Haha) Not to mention, I really feel like I’m an orphan now. Haha. Kidding aside…

My Mommy, my grandmother. The person who took care of me ever since I was a baby. The person who treated me as her own child. I just want to say, thank you and I’m sorry. Thank you very much for your unending love and patience for even though I’ve been a pain in the head, you still took care of me and never left me. Thank you very much because you taught me how to be the person I am today. Thank you very much for making me feel that I am loved and I am special. Thank you very much for being my mother and my father. Thank you very much for always taking my side whenever I argue with my cousins. ... Read more

You broke me. You broke me like a wine glass breaks when you hit it with all strength against the wall. I am that wine glass. And when you broke me, you steped on me and you broke me even more. And you also broke me the minute my mom came out of that train, because she came to the town where I was at college to tell me that you committed suicide.I remember sitting there on a bench in front of the train station, crying in my mothers arms and people passing us, watching. And you also broke me the minute me and my mom came home, to that empyt, empty apartment who isn’t the same anymore since you’ve been gone. And you also broke me the minute I went to your room. Your empty room. Everything was as you left it, just you weren’t there. But I was. Standing there, all broken. You also broke me when I first read you goodbye letter. It was the saddest thing I have ever read. And it broke me even more. And you still break me every single day. Because you’re not here. And I still keep on waiting ... Read more