Quotes from Stephen Chbosky

I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn't mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.

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

Something like that. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people.

I mean it's not like in the movies where girls like assholes or anything like that. It's not that easy. They just like somebody that can give them a purpose.

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.

Do you know what 'masturbation' is? I think you probably do because you are older than me. But just in case, I will tell you. Masturbation is when you rub your genitals until you have an orgasm. Wow!

Incidentally, I only have one cavity, and as much as my dentist asks me to, I just can't bring myself to floss.

I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. I know other people have it a lot worse. I do know that, but it's crashing in anyway, and I just can't stop thinking that the little kid eating french fries with his mom in the shopping mall is going to grow up and my sister.

I am below average!

Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy

It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder. What if they need the arms or something like that?

And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

And later that night to be with my family at dinnertime and have things just be like they always were. That was the amazing part. Things just keep going. We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough.

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.

The candle flickered in the wind of the hurricane... Then, the light of one hundred billion stars burned out.

Si le gusto a alguien,quiero que sea mi verdadero yo el que le guste,no lo que piense que soy

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

Even monsters are adorable when they're little.

I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way.

No puedes sólo sentarte y poner la vida de todos por encima de la tuya y pensar que eso cuenta como amor. Simplemente no puedes. Tienes que hacer algo.

It's just that 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. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me. And if they do something I don't like, I'll tell them.

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.

I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist.

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.