The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig

She didn’t even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before.

Loved the message of this book. Was it an oversimplification of mental health? Sure, but the lessons stuck the landing.

We can’t tell if any of those other versions would have been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.

Girlhood is a spectrum. The Bell Jar <——-> The Midnight Library