Take me to Algoe. [Paper Towns, John Green]
Now, during one of my teensy moments, I remember running to a guy buddy whining about my crush from afar, and he tells me that maybe, I was just crushing the idea of that guy, that maybe, all the information that I have had in mind of the guy, summed up into my ideal man, but is not necessarily the same guy.
It was the same as the part where Q and Margo had a row, only my guy buddy was gentler:
She’s screaming back, louder than I thought possible. “You’re not even pissed at me, Q! You’re pissed at this idea of me you keep inside your brain from where we were little!”
Ah, the disillusionment. The moment when you realize that all you were wrong all along, that you were pursuing the wrong thing. Q had his idea of Margo in his mind ever since their childhood, and since Margo kept away from Q for most years, the idea managed to stuck with Q. He had Margo, the mystery he wants to unravel, but refuses to be so, the Margo who used to play with him when they were ten, the Paper Girl Margo. The truth must have stung, especially given the lengths Q went through for chasing what was actually an illusion.
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