Point is, life woud have been much better if we were all just young wizards attending Hogwarts. To learning that there’s really no such thing as living in the moment because the 'now 'does not exist when you’re constantly being pushed into the future.
To discovering that your entire worth is being based on which major you choose and which college you go to, as if when you were created, you already came with a career label, than it is on being a decent person and trying to understand the concept of your place in this life. To finding out just how many different perceptions everyone has of you in their heads and how literally so scary and stressful that is. From how she felt like she's accidentally tricked certain people into thinking she had more potential than she actually does and directing her entire energy into trying to impress everyone. I don't know how much of this is universal but I seriously related to Frances so much. Add in a good ol’ fashioned panic attack about your life decisions and the fact that every single move you make is extremely critical to what path you’re going to take for the next 5 or 10 years and you're all set! Because nothing really says you’re a newbie adult like being too high strung, too stressed out and too anxious to be carefree no matter how bad you want to be carefree. There was an undeniably unifying effect in the daily struggles Frances went through. So guess what? I’d very much like to unsubscribe from adulthood. But here I am, an 18-year-old college student going on becoming emotionally a 40-year-old divorcee struggling to find unconditional acceptance and financial security. I relate to Frances because I too thought being 18 would be a lot more exciting than me legitimately considering whether 5pm is too early to go to bed. This is the only special thing about me.” “When you get to this age, you realize that you’re not anyone special after all. I honestly just want to paint the entirety of this book on my walls and post every quote on every social networking site and scream them from the rooftops and get a t-shirt with them on it and bathe in them and wow have I mentioned how much I LOVE THIS BOOK? I feel like I haven't been clear enough. The characters talk about emotions and thoughts in so much depth that I would notice things about myself that I was completely unaware of. Like you and the characters are ascending bodies to meet up a few miles above earth to chill.
Like someone reaching through time and space to grasp your fingers. And it’s not just the memes and the music references and the general sensation of nostalgia and loss and isolation, but just the feeling of closeness, like a warm and soft presence tracing on your back. This book was a show of unity to the millennial experience. 'You may be very small but you are all very important in the universe.'
Look, I don’t know how to say “I love this book” in a way that will make your heart ache as much as mine does and I hate being so clumsy with words but I REALLY REALLY WANT YOU GUYS TO READ IT. I swear I have such a obsessive personality and once I like something I invest my entire livelihood into it and forget how to have any other interests or know how to SHUT UP ABOUT IT!! I honestly just want to SCREAM about this book and these characters forever and let that be my career. This book was so so good and so adorable and I feel so soft on every level of metaphorical interpretation. Do not pity the dead, Harry, pity the living, and above all those WHO HAVE NEVER READ THIS BOOK.