I really enjoy anything that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in and Zooey Deschanel is great as well. Her character lacks a bit and I don’t feel like she’s this amazing person that he should get all caught up in. Maybe that’s the point.
But I like the part at the end where she says, something along the lines of, I knew with him what I was never sure of with you. It’s too bad that love isn’t fair and that it doesn’t make any sense. There’s this atmosphere of comfort and warmth when you find the right person and it’s really, “If I never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack.” You don’t really know what’s missing, you just know that it is, until it isn’t.
“It’s love, not Santa Claus.”
by Sarah Dessen
What I really liked about this book, among all of her books, is that this time the girl isn’t being saved by a guy. They kind of help each other save each other. I think that’s important, to not have these teen novels portraying these stories of guys coming in and saving you. That you can save yourself and help someone else along the way.
She’s great though and I always read her books fast. There’s always a lot of truth to the stories and the worlds she creates and the part I enjoy the most is when she has different characters from her previous stories come and interact with one another in the more recent stories. You get the sense that there’s so much more going on in the world, that stories overlap and can impact us everyday.
“A lot can change between now and then. Even your mind.”
“It’s never something huge that changes everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you’re busy focusing on the big picture.”
