Quotes from Stephen Chbosky

Tu vois, c'est pas comme dans les films, où les filles préfèrent les salauds ou les mecs dans ce genre. C'est pas aussi simple. Elles aiment les garçons qui peuvent leur donner un but. En fait, avec les mecs, ce qu'elles aiment, c'est relever un défi.

I have spent the whole vacation reading Hamlet. Bill was right. It was much easier to think of the kid in the play like the other characters I've read about so far. It has also helped me while I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with me. It didn't give me any answers necessarily, but it was helpful to know that someone else has been through it.

É só que eu não quero ser a paixonite de ninguém. Se alguém gosta de mim, eu quero que goste de mim de verdade, e não pelo que pensam que eu sou. E não quero que carreguem isso preso por dentro. Quero que mostrem para mim, para que eu possa sentir também.

No more pencils/no more books/no more teachers' dirty looks/when the teacher rings the bell/drop your books and run like hell. When

It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder. What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

Supongo que eres quien eres por un montón de razones y quizás nunca conozcamos muchas de ellas pero incluso si no tenemos el poder de elegir de donde venimos, podemos elegir adonde vamos.

Things like waking around the neighbourhood and looking at the houses and the lawns and the colourful trees and having that be enough.

Me parece mal cuando un chico mira a una chica y cree que su forma de mirarla es mejor que la chica en sí misma. Y me parece mal cuando la forma más sincera con la que un chico puede mirar a una chica es a través de una cámara.

then Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun. Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be.

I know that things get worse before they get better because that's what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big. a

Some people's fake is more honest than other people's real.

That moment when you know you're not a sad story. You are alive.

Ves cosas, guardas silencio y entiendes. Eres un marginad

So, I stood alone by the wall and watched the dance for a while. I would describe it to you, but I think it's the kind of thing where you have to be there or at least know the people. But then again, maybe you knew the same people when you went to high school dances, if you know what I mean.

This is happening, I am here and I am looking at her. And she is so beautiful. I can see it. This one moment when you know you're not a sad story. You are alive, and you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you're listening to that song and that drive with the people you love most in this world. And in that moment I swear, we were infinite

acho que somos quem somos por várias razões. E talvez nunca conheçamos a maior parte delas. Mas mesmo que não tenhamos o poder de escolher quem vamos ser, ainda podemos escolher aonde iremos a partir daqui.

Little kids talk about the strangest things. They really do.

My mom usually helps her aunt prepare the food, which my grandfather always says is too dry even if it's soup. And her aunt will then cry and lock herself in the bathroom.

De pronto caí en la cuenta de que si Michael siguiera todavía por aquí, Susan probablemente ya no <> con él. No porque sea una mala persona o superficial o cruel, sino porque las cosas cambian y los amigos se van. Y la vida no se detiene por nadie.

There are rules you follow here not because you want to, but because you have to

Vivir al margen ofrece una perspectiva única, pero siempre llega el momento de entrar en escena y ver el mundo desde adentro.

De pronto caí en la cuenta de que si Michael siguiera todavía por aquí, Susan probablemente ya no saldría con él. No porque sea una mala persona o superficial o cruel, sino porque las cosas cambian y los amigos se van. Y la vida no se detiene por nadie.

We are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.

I have to say that it was the best milkshake I ever had in my life. It was so delicious, it almost scared me.