You don’t have to keep doing this if you don’t want to. Show me it’s possible to be an adult and also be happy. Just don’t go back to thatmiserable place you go every day. Do anything! Something! Because you start a revolution one decision at a time, with each breath you take.

Roll up your pant legs and walk into the sea. Call an old friend you haven’t seen in years. Close your eyes and try to see the world with your nose-allow smells Sit down on the sidewalk and make pictures with colorful chalk.

Stop a stranger and ask her to explain her greatest fears and her secret hopes and aspirations in detail and then tell her you care because she is a human being. Eat some type of ethnic food you’ve never even Maybe stop a spinning globe with your finger and then plan a trip to that very spot even if it’s in the middle of the ocean you can go by boat.

Go to the airport and get on the next flight to anywhere just for the fun of it. And with my mind only, I’ll say - or think? - to the target, 'Don’t do it. In this riveting book, acclaimed author Matthew Quick unflinchingly examines the impossible choices that must be made - and the light in us all that never goes out.“The whole time I pretend I have mental telepathy. Speaking to each in turn, Leonard slowly reveals his secrets as the hours tick by and the moment of truth approaches. Because today is the day he will kill his former best friend, and then himself, with his grandfather's P-38 pistol.īut first he must say good-bye to the four people who matter most to him: his Humphrey Bogart obsessed next-door neighbor, Walt his classmate Baback, a violin virtuoso Lauren, the Christian homeschooler he has a crush on and Herr Silverman, who teaches the high school's class on the Holocaust. It is also the day he hides a gun in his backpack. To let them know I really cared about them and I'm sorry I couldn't be more than I was - that I couldn't stick around - and that what's going to happen today isn't their fault. I want to give them each something to remember me by. In addition to the P-38, there are four gifts, one for each of my friends.

Forgive me leonard