Quotes from Stephen Chbosky

It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except 'be there.' I just want to make him stop hurting, but I can't. So I just follow him around whenever he wants to show me his world.

Asleep by the Smiths Vapour Trail by Ride Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum Dear Prudence by the Beatles Gypsy by Suzanne Vega Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues Daydream by Smashing Pumpkins Dusk by Genesis (before Phil Collins was even in the band!) MLK by U2 Blackbird by the Beatles Landslide by Fleetwood Mac Asleep by the Smiths (again!) -Charlie's mixtape

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

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.

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.

It's much easier not to know things sometimes.

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

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. Maybe that is what makes people participate.

If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.

What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?

I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.

I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

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.

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.

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

What's your favorite book? The last one I read.

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

there is this one photograph... that is just beautiful. it would be impossible to describe how beautiful it is, but i'll try. if you listen to the song "asleep," and you think about those pretty weather days that make you remember things, and you think about the prettiest eyes you've known, and you cry and the person holds you back, then i think you will see the photograph.

He's my whole world." "Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me.

It's like when you're excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you're happy, too.

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

I'm so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. I really do. I hope you do, too. Okay, then. Goodbye.

Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.