"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 have loved you for years. In a few months it’ll complete 3 years since you left, and took a little piece of my heart with you. I love you so much, and i admire you in so many ways! It doesn’t matter the way you died, but i really care about your life. and you were such a big inspiration to me! Your beautiful half smile, your big heart, the way you couldn’t dance, and your angel’s voice. I miss the way you looked at Lea, and i miss your funny tweets. I still share a tear every once in a while, and sometimes my heart aches when i remember i’ll never get the chance to offer you a warm embrace. I’m from far, i’m brazilian. I wish you knew how many and different lives you touched. I wish it could give you enough straight to fight against your demons. You’re my hero, because even knowing you may lost the biggest war, i’m proud to know you tried to fight, and i’m proud of the man you were, a man that faced his problems, and used his courage to try to be better, I’m only sorry that my love ... Read more

I loved Little Women so much! I could relate to it because I have a sister and it’s probably my most favorite classic. It’s sad that Beth dies. She was probably the favorite of fans, because she was so kind. My favorite, though, is Jo. I can relate to her too because I love reading and writing so much. I didn’t know what to think of Meg, and Laurie seemed to good for Amy, the spoiled, vain little brat that she is. I think Laurie should have gone with Jo. But all in all, I love your book. P.S. Jack and Jill: A Village Story sounds very interesting. (I love nursery rhymes, too).

I never knew who you were until I listen to the cast recording of Hamilton, an american musical, based off your life. The music tells your story and it was amazing. It combined history and rap into one great big wonderful thing. Best ear candy. Most importantly, I learned about the mistakes you made and the risk you took. I was amazed at what you did. Your mistake made me realize it’s okay to and made me feel better about my mistakes(making a pamphlet about your affair wasn’t really the best decision you could have made). You made me realize that it will be okay. You have changed my life, and I know you have changed a lot of other’s lives too. So from all of us, thank you.

I decided to write to you because your life when you were my age was a lot like my life is right now. When you were 13-18 your mom encouraged you to write books, but you never really gave it a chance. My mom does the same thing to me, she will read all of my poems or books that I would start writing but never finished. She tells me that I am a great writer, but I don’t believe her. I think that your life is an example of it taking a while to realize what you truly want to do in life, and not just rushing to a conclusion. What made you discover that you wanted to be a writer though? I researched you even more, and found out that you moved to Paris from England to sing. I think that is amazing that you had the courage to move to Paris by yourself to follow what was your dream at the time. I love to sing, but I could never move far away from my family. Later in 1916, you finally published your first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. What was your inspiration to write ... Read more

Thank you for the way you made fantasy creatures and places come to life. When you wrote the Chronicles of Narnia, I felt like I had another life away from the life I was currently living. I researched you, and it turns out that you and your big brother were very close and loved to pretend that fantasy creatures were real. Me and my baby sister, Trinity, play a lot of make believe since she is so little and loves to play games. We also create a world where there are pirates, super powers, princesses, and wizards. I guess that is also like what you and your older brother used to do. I read that you and Warren created a place named the Land of Boxen. Is that where you came up with the idea for Narnia? Anyways, I found out that you weren’t a strong Christian when you were younger, in fact, you didn’t show any signs of being a Christian at all. I am like that right now, and I don’t know what to believe and what I should believe. But something must have changed your mind, since all of your books have many Christian references in them. ... Read more

I love your works, and I always have. I think what makes your writing so good, and so thoughtful, was that you weren’t even planning on having it published, so you included true feelings that other authors and poets would have left out. My favorite poem that you wrote is this poem: Hope is the thing with feathers…It asked a crumb of me. I love this poem because it describes hope so well. Whenever I try to describe it, I can’t put it into words, and this poem is just perfect. I think that it is saying, hope stays with you, no matter what happens, even if things get rough, and you never know what will happen, you always have hope. But hope is also not such a good thing, every time you have a hope about something, it hurts too. It especially hurts when your hope doesn’t come true. How did you write poems that were straight from your heart? And did it hurt you to write your feelings out on paper? Another thing I know about you, is that you loved writing letters. I have read all of your works about three times, and I think that ... Read more

When I found out about your death, I didn’t believe it. So to be sure I searched it up, to my horror I found out that you were truly dead. You were fighting cancer and you lost the battle. I truly admire you for your role in the Harry Potter movies as Severus Snape. When you were doing your role as Snape, you never once laughed during the films, and you were the most amazing Snape there could ever be, you played the role of Snape perfectly. I know you died recently in January 14, at the beginning of a new year, you were gone when 2016 barely started. Up until now I can’t accept the fact that your’e gone thank you for playing the role of Snape, thank you for actually being the character and not the actor.

It’s incredible to me that you have a Wikipedia page. You have a Wikipedia page and, thanks to modern technology, an album that came out three years ago. I can listen to you, right now. Literally, right now, I, and everyone else with a computer, could go online and hear your voice, almost a century after it was recorded. And I have, and so have thousands of others. Thousands of people have heard your voice today. Hundreds of thousands. And so have I. I come from a line of performers. My great uncle Andrew played the trumpet in the army. You, on my grandfather’s side. Far enough down my grandmother’s genial line, you’ll bump into Drew and John Barrymore, famous in the movie business. Even my dad, politician and computer geek, loves to sing and play around on instruments. It’s almost enough to make me believe in destiny. Maybe not destiny, but definitely legacy. Fame is an odd thing to think about. So is what makes somebody real. You’re real to me because my father is real, and his father, and his father. Your genes are in my blood. But you’re also real, like, now. Anyone who’s played Bioshock Infinite knows your ... Read more

I saw this on the book I recently bought. It says that I’ll have to go to this website if I have something to say to someone whose gone. You weren’t dead. But, you were gone.

I remember the first day I felt something blossoming between us. It was in school, when the weather was gloomy and the classroom was dirty and our classmates were noisy and I was sleepy. I saw you in the corner of my eye, you trying to sleep and mute the noise. I went to the other side of the classroom and made balls of tissue, and handed a pair to you. You looked at it with confusion.

“It’s too noisy, right?”, I said. You smiled and nodded, accepting my lame attempt. I went back to my seat and put my head down. You did the same, and suddenly we were holding eye contact. I was trying to think what you were thinking. And I think i did: you were thinking of me.

You were friends with my bestfriend, and every breaktime you always approached us and talked to us. Then one day in August, you spilled your secret: you liked me. That was my first time being ... Read more

Ever since I was 5 years old, you’ve inspired me in so many ways. Your music was so amazing, the energy that you would give out during your performances was like no other. Everyone admired your beautiful smile, your amazing personality. Its like if you were the sunshine of everything, your husband, Chris, adored you. You two were happily married, although at first your father didn’t accept it. You thought he was wrong and that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. That’s how I feel sometimes about my parents, but we have to understand that our parents only want what’s right for us. You two were madly in love, you wanted a big family but sadly, it never happened. One of your closer friends, Yolanda Saldivar, shot you. I wonder what you thought of her right as she pulled the trigger. Were you sad? Mad? Everyone wonders that. Yolanda is now in prison, thankfully. She’s probably going to be sentenced for life but that’s what she gets for killing such a beautiful admired woman like you, Selena. We all miss you so much, your adorable laugh, the amazing music you made and most of all we just miss You. ... Read more