You are on the inside. Deep in your muscles. That's you. The body is the extension of you. Only give someone your fingers, your skin, and toes if they deserve to touch your soul. 
 I can't express well enough how much this book surprised me. I didn't expect to read such a powerful story on coming of age, and finding out who you are --being you-- and when I did get that it made me love this book so much. 
 You watch the world. I'm not even sure you live in it. 
 I've been doing a little contemporary experiment. Contemporaries are my least read genre of books, and I wanted to change that and find some new favourites along the way perhaps, and I've been so happy with what I've found so far. 
 I have to admit, I was a little annoyed with this book at first, it didn't stand out at all among this genre. Some contemporaries seem to blend in with each other making them unremarkable a story that I'll most likely forget with in the next week. That's how this book was for me at first -- not bad but unremarkable -- and then suddenly I get this great message in the story and the characters grow and I love so much with how it all comes together. This is why, that I have banned myself from DNFing books in the past and I still stand by that 100%, because you never really know when a book is going to surprise you.