Quotes from Stephen Chbosky

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are... I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.

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.

Everyone is comparing everyone with everyone.

Charlie, aceptamos el amor que pensamos que nos merecemos.

It's strange the times people choose to be generous.

I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like. It's much easier not to know things sometimes. And to have french fries with your mom be enough.

Masturbation is when you rub your genitals until you have an orgasm. Wow!

I've been trying hard to not be a loser.

I think its bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera.

I don't know if it's good or bad. I don't know if it's better to have your kids be happy and not go to college. I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do. I just don't know.

I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

Quindi immagino che siano tanti i fattori che ci fanno essere come siamo. Molti, forse, non li conosceremo mai. Ma, anche se non possiamo essere noi a decidere da dove veniamo, possiamo scegliere la nostra meta. Ci sono altre cose che possiamo fare. Cercando di sentirci a posto.

Es genial que puedas escuchar y ser un paño de lágrimas para alguien, pero ¿y si ese alguien no necesita un paño de lágrimas? ¿Y si necesita los brazos o algo así? No puedes quedarte ahí sentado y poner las vidas de todos los demás por delante de la tuya y pensar que eso cuenta como amor. Sencillamente, no puedes. Tienes que hacer cosas.

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist.

So, I said I thought the magazine was trying to make him a hero, but then later somebody might dig up something to make him seem like less than a person. And I didn't know why because to me he is just a guy who writes songs that a lot of people like, and I thought that was enough for everyone involved.

No recuerdo a dónde íbamos o de dónde veníamos, incluso no recuerdo la temporada, sólo recuerdo caminar en medio de los dos y sentir por primera vez que pertenecía a algún lugar.

Please don't try to figure out who she is because then you might figure

First, I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other. Second, the fights are always the same.

I wish I could report that it's getting better, but unfortunately it isn't. It's hard, too, because we've started school again, and I can't go to the places where I used to go. And it can't be like it was. And I wasn't ready to say good-bye just yet. To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.

I think you of all people are alive and appreciates what that means.

I look at people holding hands in the hallways, and I try to think about how it all works.

And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera.

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.

Di solto torno a casa a piedi da scuola, perché così ho la sensazione di essermela guadagnata. Mi spiego: voglio poter raccontare ai miei bambini che andavo a scuola come facevano i miei nonnni «ai loro tempi».