Stephen Chbosky Quotes

It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

And she kissed me. It was the kind of kiss that I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.

What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?

I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

It's much easier not to know things sometimes.

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.

I thought if I didnt take a break, I would do something even worse. Like yell or hang up the phone.

I just reminded myself that she didn't say it mean. She wasn't making fun of me. She wasn't comparing. Or criticizing.

I just kind of put my feelings away somewhere after that.

she hated everything her parents loved

I was just trying to be a friend, ' I said. 'But you weren’t, Charlie. At those times, you weren’t being his friend at all. Because you weren’t honest with him.

I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it won't change the fact that they are upset.

It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back

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

Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

I know that things get worse before they get better because that's what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.

Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker, ...

A lot of parents make you feel very awkward when you meet them.

I just wish Mary Elizabeth would ask me questions other than “What's up?

I asked Patrick if he felt sad that he had to keep it a secret, and Patrick just said that he wasn't sad because at least now, Brad doesn't have to get drunk or stoned to make love.

Little kids talk about the strangest things. They really do.

Dear Friend, I'm sorry I haven't written to you in a couple of weeks, but I have been trying to 'participate' like Bill said.

I think it's nice for stars to do interviews to make us think they are just like us, but to tell you the truth, I get the feeling that it's all a big lie. The problem is I don't know who's lying.

Friends leave and life doesn't stop for anybody

Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be.

Sam looked at me soft. And she hugged me. And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.

Math has never made any sense to me.

Then the movie started. It was in a foreign language and had subtitles, which was fun because I had never read a movie before.