Dear Charlie,

This is just to inform you that I find your mind extremely brilliant. I have just finished reading your letters and peeking into your thoughts, and while I think that you cry far too much, I think you're delightful apart from that.

There is one particular paragraph that caught my attention, and has remained in my mind. It is about your brother, and I attach it here.

"More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain. I think that would be very good for him, especially if the girl were unconventionally beautiful. They are the best kind of girls, I think. I personally find "supermodels" strange. I dont know why that is."

In all sincerity, this is the kind of love I've always dreamed of. I call it the 'woolly' kind of love. Where everything just gives you a warm feeling. Where you bond not over superficial things, but over words, debates and conversations. I love that kind of love. I love hot chocolate. I dont really know about the kissing in the rain part though. I've never thought about that. And what I love most is the idea of being found 'unconventionally beautiful'. I hope someday someone finds me unconventionally beautiful. I hope someone falls for me hook line and sinker. I love the idea that all of this could happen in front of books, a nice warm drink, sweaters, comfy carpets, fireplaces, just all that stuff. Surrounded and serenaded by beauty. I just love that. That is all. 

PS. This might be really weird, but when I first posted up excerpts from the book, I used one quote. It was the same quote that's on the blurb on the book. It goes,

"I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why."

I think that's freaky, how we'd both think of using the same quote, of all the quotes in the book.

A.