Era pra ser um livrinho bobo pra adolescentes. Uma amiga diz que eu deveria ter lido aos 22. Eu acho que deveria ter lido aos 16. Talvez seja isso mesmo. Mas, pra mim, The perks of being a wallflower, de Stephen Chbosky, foi uma bomba H. Devastadora. Um golpe baixíssimo. Saí perturbado. Do livro e, depois, do filme, que é de onde saiu a imagem deste post.
Selecionei cinco citações pra compartilhar neste post. Pra mim, elas fizeram todo o sentido do mundo:
"Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve."
"To tell you the truth, I love Sam. It’s not a movie kind of love either. I just look at her sometimes, and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the whole world."
"Nobody can be as big as the Beatles because the Beatles already gave it a 'context.' The reason they were so big is that they had no one to compare themselves with, so the sky was the limit."
"It’s just that I don’t want to be somebody’s crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am."
"So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them."
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Em tempo: o livro, traduzido como As vantagens de ser invisível, saiu em português há uns anos pela Rocco.
