Quotes from Stephen Chbosky

It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.

Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.

He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.

Do you always think this much? It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

Most of the people I know who were raised to be accommodating or were raised to just be nice and put everybody's needs ahead of theirs, there comes a moment when the pressure builds and they can't do it anymore. They have needs and they feel neglected and they usually explode.

As people get older, we all know, you get married and you have a child and that becomes your family, but when you're 16 years old, especially, your family is your friends.

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 want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.

and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.

As we all know, when you're an athlete things are a little bit easier for you. It didn't mean that what was going on inside my heart wasn't a bit of a thunderstorm, but outwardly I got along ok. I was really shy in seventh grade.

I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.

there was a time when these weren't memories.

After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.

I just don't want you to worry about me, or think you've met me, or waste your time anymore.

I love my mom. And this time, I told her I loved her. And she told me she loved me, too. And things were okay for a little while.

I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.

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.

Maybe it's sad that these are now memories. And maybe it's not sad.

Try to be a filter, not a sponge.

I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.