Quotes from Stephen Chbosky

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands […] I need to know that these people exist

I just remembered what made me think of all this. I'm going to write it down because maybe if I do I won't have to think about it. And I won't get upset.

Bueno, esta es mi vida. Y quiero que sepas que estoy al mismo tiempo contento y triste, y que todavía intento descubrir cómo eso es posible.

The prom's music came from this really bad cover band called The Gypsies of the Allegheny

The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

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.

and the trees kept moving …they just wouldn't stop moving …so I laid down and made a snow angel.

For the rest of the school year, the teachers treated me different and gave me better grades even though I didn't get any smarter.

I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. 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.

I don't want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can't think again. Not ever again. 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. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.

Mi sento come... infinito.

I hope it's the kind of second side that he can listen to whenever he drives alone and feel like he belongs to something whenever he's sad.

She was a very unhappy person most of her life. She went to hospitals all the time. All kinds of hospitals. Finally, she went to a hospital that helped her figure things out enough to try and make things normal, so she moved in with my family.

Lucrurile se schimb?. Iar prietenii pleac?. ?i via?a nu se opre?te pentru nimeni

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 something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning. If this gets any worse, I might have to go back to the doctor. It's getting that bad again.

That's when I started thing about my sister. [...] And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall.

guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

Believe it or not, I'm really not that afraid of going. I'm not sure if I will have the time to write any more letters because I might be too busy trying to participate. So, if this does end up being my last letter, please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And I will believe the same about you. Love always, Charlie

I just think it's bad whena boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is.

That's when I started thinking about my sister. [...] And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall.

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 dónde vamos desde ahí. Todavía podemos hacer cosas. Y podemos intentar sentirnos bien con ellas.

Just say you're not ready." "Does that work?" "Sometimes." I wanted to ask Sam about the other side of "sometimes," but I didn't want to be too personal, and I didn't want to know deep down.

After I said that, we all got quiet and sad. In the silence, I remembered this one time that I never told anybody about. The time we were walking. Just the three of us. And I was in the middle. I don't remember where we were walking to or where we were walking from. I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere

I thought that in those movies and television shows when they talk about having a coffee break that they should have a masturbation break.