first of all, if you'd say this book was a lot like Looking For Alaska that's when you're slightly right but you're also mostly wrong. Margo, in a lot of ways, is not like Alaska. the only thing they have in common is probably their intellectual bad assness and their mysterious auras. 
 I can relate to Margo. I've made the same mistakes she's made (falling into the wrong crowd and shit). I didn't think my friends were genuine either but unlike her, I didn't have the courage to prank them and throw fish around their properties. I think I live in a paper town. I was a paper girl but I'm not anymore, I guess. I'm still a paper girl in a sense that I still don't know who I am and I hide my thoughts in fear that my current friends might abandon me if they saw the real me (which they've seen and they stayed. thank God) I just need a vacation from all of this things happening surrounding me. it's like I want to escape and be in another place where people expect nothing from me and they don't know me or who I was or what I've done. 
 now playing: All Signs Point To Lauderdale by ADTR. this book matches almost perfectly with this song. 
 I love how this book also emphasizes the humanness of people and that you should really just accept them as they are and not hate them because they're not your idea of who they're supposed to be; because they're not who you thought they were. this book honestly gives me hope. I wish I could still believe that not everyone here's make believe and that there's still sincerity in all that people do.