English Homework

And all at once I knew how Margo Roth Spiegelman felt when she wasn't being Margo Roth Spiegelman: she felt empty. She felt the unscaleable wall surrounding her. I thought of her asleep on the carpet with only that jagged sliver of sky above her. Maybe Margo felt comfortable there because Margo the person lived like that all the time: in an abandoned room with blocked-out windows, the only light pouring in through holes in the roof. Yes. The fundamental mistake I had always made—and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make—was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

she wanted to escape so she ran away

We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time

some things make you snap and do things

As much as life can suck, it always beats the

for some people they don't have a choice

Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.

i feel like once someone is gone for so long people loose hope and feel like it doesn't matter anymore

I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

people don't care about missing people as much as i feel they should

Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one

she became missing

Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

she left

She loved mysteries so much that she became one

she ran away

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest *******ed thing in the world.

Some missing people are missing because they choose to be, and do not want to be found.

I'm not saying that everything is survivable.

Some people turn up dead after being missing for a while.