Quotes from Stephen Chbosky

It suddenly dawned on me that if Michael were still around, Susan probably wouldn't be going out with him anymore. Not because she's a bad person or shallow or mean. But because things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

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

Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not even realizing it

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

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 walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here.

She thanked me for not trying to make what I did seem less by offering a lot of excuses.

But in that moment when my brother took the field, all that washed away, and everyone was proud... I looked up at my dad, and he was smiling. I looked at my mom, and she was smiling even though she was nervous about my brother getting hurt, which was strange because it was a VCR tape of an old game, and she knew he didn't get hurt.

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

I didn't do things because I didn't want him to think different about me.

This one kid Mark at the party that gave me this came out of nowhere looked at the sky and told me to see the stars. So, I looked up, and we were in this giant dome like a glass snowball, and Mark said that the amazing white stars were really only holes in the black glass of the dome, and when you went to heaven, the glass broke away, and there was nothing of a whole sheet of star white, which is brighter than anyhting but doensn't hurt your eyes.

I am looking at her and she is so beautiful.

That scared me a lot. It scared me how much it scared me. Being punished for something you did not do. Or being an innocent victim. It's just something that I never want to experience.

She said I was the most sensitive boy she'd ever met, which I didn't understand because really all I did was not interrupt her.

And the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

And I know things have to get worse before they get better.

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

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

My grandma is very old, and she doesn't remember things a lot, but she bakes the most delicious cookies. When I was very little, we had my mom's mom, who always had candy, and my dad's mom,who always had cookies. My mom told me that when I was little, I called them Candy Grandma and Cookies Grandma. I also called pizza crust pizza bones. I don't know why I'm telling you this.

Be skeptical about this one. It's a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.

You have to live your life before you get to live your Heaven.

I wonder what my speech would be.

I told him about the boy [...] hitting my sister [...] He got this very serious look on his face after I told him, and he said something to me I don't think I will forget [...] ever. Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve.

Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aunque no tengamos el poder de elegir de donde venimos,todavía podemos elegir a donde vamos desde ahí.Todavía podemos hacer cosas.Y podemos intentar sentirnos bien con ellas.