Quando vi vários blogs americanos falando desse livro, precisei saber mais sobre ele. Autores falando de suas adolescências? O quão awesome é isso? Assim sendo, enquanto lia alguns livros de ficção, acabei intercalando a leitura dessas cartas aos “eus” adolescentes de diversos autores… e isso foi na mesma época em que vi o filme “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” e eu pensei: uau, ninguém teve uma adolescência não problemática? Bem, e aí eu realmente me dei conta do quão legal foi a minha adolescência. De como a minha “esquisitice” calhou de ser algo meio comum “na época” heheh e eu tinha vários amigos weirdos como eu e… bem, esse livro é excelente, eu superindico esse livro a todos, sem exceção. Dá vontade de chorar com vários relatos, mas, no fim das contas, as formas como os escritores superaram tantas dificuldades podem animar a muita gente. É um livro nota 10, que amei muito – e que, repito, deveria ser lido por todo mundo.
Ganhei o meu exemplar da Zest Books, autografado por alguns dos escritores, super legal xD
Abaixo, quotes e fotos do livro. Elas podem falar melhor sobre ele do que eu consigo me expressar sobre o livro com as minhas palavras aqui. Espero que vocês curtam tanto “Dear Teen Me” quanto eu curti xD
Miranda would talk about Star Trek to anyone who would listen when she was a kid. Unfortunately, none of her friends liked it. They considered Star Trek dorky, and this destroyed her self-esteem. It wasn’t until college that Miranda found other people who also loved Star Trek. How much would teen Miranda have loved to know that there were other people out there – great people – who actually shared her interests?
{Quem diria que hoje Star Trek fosse virar in e mainstream?}
This book is for everyone who has ever felt alone or misunderstood, for everyone who dreads prom and also for every teen in the homecoming court. For the wimps, the Goths and the jocks. This book is for you.
You already believe in something Faith will say in Buffy The Vampire Slayer: “Want, take, have!”
Teen me, all I can say is that I miss your dearly. I miss your white teeth. (…) Not to mention the vampiric longing in your expression – an expression that seems to say, at one and the same time: “I want to create!” and “I want to be famous!” and “Do I look cool from this angle?” and “Deep down I know I am a fraud”.
(…) “doing things” was never your specialty. But not doing things? In that respect you’re a pro.
But that night, with two misfit friends at your side, you discover an underground world where you’re accepted for the fantastic little freak that you are (…) This world is completely opposed to your everyday high school reality, where people beat you up because you dye your hair and listen to band from England.
The Smiths, alguém?
You wear a different pair of crazy sunglasses every day of the week, hope you can make that “your thing”.
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As it turns out, you being yourself made people like you. It still does.
In other words, you finally found your “thing”.
Thanks heavens. That hat was ridiculous.
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Go ahead and embrace life on the social fringes, because one day you’ll realize – without a doubt – that’s where you want to be. (…)You’ll even marry one of those weirdos, and it’ll be great.
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Your immense dorkiness as a teen will be the center of your artistic life, the center of your sense of humor, the center of ongoing friendships with so many of the kids you knew back then. (You guys never discuss the relatively boring victories – you only talk about the grand, majestic, hilarious failures.)
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And just for the record, I’ve listened to “Lady Jane” thirty-two times in a row while writing you this letter. And it was amazing.
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Outsiders rarely reach “in crow” status, and no matter how nice you are to the cheerleaders, you are no exception. Instead, you find acceptance among the intelligentsia, artistes, and anti-establishmentarians.
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All that rejection helps you grow a thick skin, one you’ll need when you finally settle into the career you were destined for.
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You’ll continue to submerge yourself in fantasy, science fiction, horror and comic books galore. You’ll absorb those books. You don’t even know how much you’re learning, but the incessant reading and drawing will become a thermonuclear source of internalized storytelling knowledge.
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If you have no adult to trust as a child, choose to become an adult that children can trust.
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Just like you, the house seems cheerful and composed from the outside, but inside, it’s a disaster.
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These may not be the best days of your life, but like it or not, these days will define you. Live them.
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You witnessed history that night. Two years later, Jerry Garcia will be dead. The prom show will be the band’s last appearance in town.
{Essas coisas realmente marcam uma vida. Mesmo nao tendo acontcido quando eu era dolescente, ter visto um dos últimos shows do Nightwish no Brasil antes de a Tarja sair da banda foi awesome. E tambem me senti tendo testemunhado história. Pois, pelo que me falaram dos outros shows, o que vi foi um dos últimos, se não o íltimo, em que a banda ainda parecia não estar acabando…}
And I know you think about killing yourself. You’re good with blades and you know that you could do it. But something stops you: and that something is good: It’s hope. Hope, tenacity and your fighting spirit.
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Once upon a time there was a sick little boy, and he killed himself six months before his fifteenth birthday. He had a sister and she cannot forget.
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Thank God for Alanis Morisette and eggs with ketchup and Pride and Prejudice and The Beatles and the rest of the random and wonderful things we eventually bonded over.
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And then you might have a date for homecoming instead to being forced to hang out in the bleachers with your wallflowers girlfriends mouthing the lyrics to “Forever Young”.
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If you give it enough time, teenagers will think you are cool. It won’t be while you’re a teenager, but still.
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Teen Me, iPods are this amazing technology that let you carry around thousands of songs instead of just a few CDs. I mean it. The future is a crazy place.
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You’ll discover the joys of being the strangest person in the room. You’ll dye your hair purple.
Three years later you’ll go to university and meet and fall in love with a girl who dyes her hair pink.
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The nature of friendship changes as you move toward adulthood.
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She even tried the all-black-wearing, raccoon-eyed-look – only to find that she’s too giggly to be a Goth.
Ri altíssimo com essa! Porque foi exatamente assim comigo, haha, quando eu tive o prazer de frequenter as baladas góticas, com o look adequado, claro, mas eu vivia ouvindo isso: que eu ria muito para uma gótica! Hahah #sotrue
Enfim, toda a awesomeness desse livro é muito difícil de resumir em palavras… que não sejam as do próprio livro, por isso, esse monte de quotes!
Nota? 5 de 5 <3
