Paper Crown was written about how when you’re a kid life seems happy and good. But it’s not always. You get told you can be anything you want, do anything you want, but at the time when I was writing it, I didn’t feel so hopeful.

There are always things trying to put you down, obstacles you must face, and sometimes it overwhelms me. Sometimes I feel like I can’t overcome any of it. I just want to go back to when I was a kid and things were simpler.

But all children must grow up and discover that the world isn’t always good. They can be hurt, trampled on and kicked while they’re down, even killed.

But in the end you must have hope that one day your dreams will come true, that you will have that happily ever after you wished for as a kid. We need hope. Without it, what’s the point in living, of life in general.

I have hope. Do you?

Love
Roxanne