Stephen Chbosky Quotes

He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying.

I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.

Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does.

The movie itself was very interesting, but I didn't think it was very good because I didn't really feel different when it was over.

Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

They are all my favourites. All of them.

It is important to say "sir" at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you.

But Mary Elizabeth felt different. She kept saying it was an "articulate" film. So "articulate." And I guess it was. The thing is, I didn't know what it said even if it said it very well.

the juniors were acting different because they are now the seniors. They even had T-shirts made. I don't know who plans these things.

It’s much easier not to know things sometimes. And to have french fries with your mom be enough.

It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real.

I wonder what my speech would be.

The outside lights were on, and it was snowing, and it looked like magic. Like we were somewhere else. Like we were someplace better.

Girls are weird, and I don't mean that offensively. I just can't put it any other way.

The gift from my Secret Santa wasn't anything special. That makes me sad. I bet you anything that Mary Elizabeth is my Secret Santa because only she would give me socks.

The radio comes back even louder than you remember it.

I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of them kept touching his beard.

The sound of the radio fades to nothing because the waves just can't reach

Charlie, you’re one of the most gifted people I’ve ever known. And I don’t mean in terms of my other students. I mean in terms of anyone I’ve ever met.

But at one point, Craig was talking about something, and Sam turned to me and smiled. It was a movie smile in slow motion, and then everything was okay.

My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.

I guess when you see somebody in the hallway or on the field or something, it's nice to know that they are a real person.

I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

For me personally, as much as I don't understand my mom and dad and as much as I feel sorry for them sometimes, I can't help but love them very much.

I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.

I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

The fact that one of these ladies was my mom made me particularly sad because my mom is beautiful. And she’s always on a diet. Sometimes, my dad calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear him.

My sister was the one who told me where babies come from. My sister was also the one who laughed when I immediately asked her where babies go to.

Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all your dues.

Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating a large canvas and all the details.

I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

I hate you."I love you."You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have."I'm trying not to be.

I feel infinite.

But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things.

I hate you.'My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me. She really did.'I love you, ' was all I could say in return.

If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. Also, when I write letters, I spend the next two days thinking about what I figured out in my letters.

Everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other

The two families really don't like each other, except for all us younger cousins because we don't know any better.

It was the look on her face when she said it. And how much she meant it. It suddenly made everything seem like it really was. I felt terrible. Just terrible.

You see things You keep quiet about them. You understand.

I don't want to be just another thing mary elizabeth is in charge of

Things change and friends leave and life doesn't stop for anybody

And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.

I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things.

I don´t want to be somebody´s crush, if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.

Things get worse before they get better, but this is a worse that feels too big.