Quentin has lived next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman his most of his life. So I guess you could say for most of his life, his heart has belonged to one girl. Even her name indicates the power she holds on him. Saying Margo just doesn't give her justice. She is, and forever will be, Margo Roth Spegelman, the girl who captured his heart and then ran away.
Quentin is a very down to earth senior which is not surprising as both his parents are psychologists. He has a healthy relationship with them as well as his two best friends. Quentin also has a very realistic look on life. He hangs around the band kids whom are all aware they are not the cool kids but are happy with that and their surroundings. So before this point in his life, Quentin is quite content. Then comes this point I'm referring to in which the girl next door whom he has always admired from afar changes his whole world. Quite literally.
Margo, sorry Margo Roth Spiegerlam and Quentin were friends in elementary school when life was simpler, that is, until they encountered a scary experiment that no child should ever have to encounter. After that life got more complicated and Margo started hanging with the cool crowd. This wasn't surprising for Quentin as Margo (yeah let's just stick with her first name for my purposes) knew just how to draw people into her world. She had charm, charisma, and this aura about her that you had to be apart of. Quentin never stopped noticing her every time they were within a certain distance from one another. She was his dream girl living in a completely different life.
This all changed one night when Margo opened her world to Quentin as they went on a memorable wild ride serving justice to those deserving. Quentin's "play it safe" methods were pressed to their limits until he learned to just let go. He was changed forever and feeling like he finally made a connection that fit into Margo's life. Then she was gone.
Margo being the queen be she was, didn't grow up with the best family situation. Her parents didn't have the most loving methods towards her and didn't quite know how to handle Margo's lifestyle. She was the girl who would go missing from time to time only to amaze you by her adventures and life experiences. So in this final adventure, they decided enough was enough and locked the doors.
Quentin was at a loss. Here he thought he had finally gotten his in, and she just left. No note, just a final goodbye. This left Quentin with too many possibilities and some were too much to bare. But Margo, being Margo, she did leave him clues and as he was able to put connections together, his worst fear of all became a possible reality. Had she killed herself? Was this her big "f you" to the world? Or in a better scenario, did she leave all these clues just for Quentin to find her? Was she done with her current life and ready to move on to better things with Quentin at her side? The more he searched the grander the idea of Margo became in his mind. It truly became an obsession for Quentin. Luckily he had a wonderful support group from his trust best friends.
So with Margo being gone, and in her absence effecting the senior student body in the most intriguing of ways (Was this her whole purpose in leaving?), Quentin would not stop his search until he found her. Which I cannot tell you here, but I can say that Quentin learned more about himself than he knew was there in this search for another and you truly evolve with him as his story continues.
This story teaches many lessons, but for me it truly shows just how we place people on pedestals and know them in our own way, but is that who they really are?
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