Quotes from Stephen Chbosky

To tell you the truth I love Sam. It's not a movie kind of love either. I just look at her sometimes and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the whole world.

To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.

The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.

I hate you." I love you." You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." I'm trying not to be.

Harold and Maude' was a seminal movie for me because it's not only a beautiful love story, but it's also about the moment when misfits find each other.

When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Dead Poet's Society,' they all had that timeless feel. None of them were completely married to the details of their age. They felt timeless in their treatment of it. That's what made them resonate with me.

I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity.

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

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.

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

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.

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

I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.

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.

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

When you think back to your first kiss, your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and we remember it with style. We remember it as idealistically as you can think.

Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.