"She's the only person brave enough to punch the joker in the face...and live to tell it. Ashton lawton"

Can we just quit pretending to be as perfect as society pushes us to be? Quit pretending we have no scars or pasts? Quit pretending every life has to be one full of elation and satisfaction? And can we PUH-LEASE quit pretending as if every female must be your perfect 'Girl Next Door' or each guy has got to be a 'Bad Boy'? It's time to cut the crap. All the faking, the facades to hide the pain... it's time we quit being someone we aren't. It's time to quit pretending. ••••• If you want to read a book without all the predictable sappy storylines, you've found the right one.••••• € This girl is far from innocent, but then again, so are we. ¥ ~Reviewed by Empressotaku

"My name is Jace Overton, and I have schizophrenia." Mr. Stevenson stood from his desk, his eyes widening and surprise slapping him in the face as if he'd just discovered vibranium. "Wow, so you're a schizophrenic?" My mom told me there were three kinds of people in the world: people that didn't care, people that cared enough, and people that cared too much. He was definitely the third type of person. "No, I have schizophrenia. I am not a schizophrenic." "Is there a difference?" I stared at him blankly, "I wouldn't have corrected you if there wasn't." ----- Jace is weird. Jace has a blunted affect, a knack for memorizing, and a strong attraction to a Pakistani girl named Elizabeth. He also has a distant father, an overbearing psychiatrist and two best friends that get him into situations (some of which end with his nose [and heart] being broken). He has a sister that's ten years his senior, daily medication, serious hatred for the color white and a mere four years to accomplish the following things: 1) Make his parents fall in love with each other again. 2) Make Elizabeth fall in love with him. 3) Get people to understand that he has schizophrenia, he is not a schizophrenic. The former is attached to an identity while the latter is a label. A CampNaNoWriMo Novel