Quotes from Stephen Chbosky

I am really in love with Sam, and it hurts very much.

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.

Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone

Charlie, don't you get it? I can't feel that. It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. 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.

Maybe this are my glory days, and I'm not even realizing it...

The fact that one of these ladies was my mom made me particularly sad because my mom is beautiful. And she's always on a diet. Sometimes, my dad calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear him.

When to stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

Sam has brown hair and very, very pretty green eyes. The kind of green that doesn't make a big deal about itself.

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

Sam looked at me soft. And she hugged me. And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms. And she kissed my cheek and whispered so nobody could hear. I love you.

just be yourself

I 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.

The outside lights were on, and it was snowing, and it looked like magic. Like we were somewhere else. Like we were someplace better.

Las cosas cambian. Y los amigos se van. Y la vida no se detiene para nadie.

we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.

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

No hay nada como respirar hondo después de reírte tanto. Nada en el mundo como el dolor de estómago por una buena causa.

Please believe that things are going good with me. Even if they're not they will be soon enough.

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.

Despite everything my mom and doctor and dad have said to me about blame, I can't stop thinking what I know. And I know that my aunt Helen would still be alive today if she just bought me one present like everybody else. She would be alive if I were born on a day that didn't snow.

I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.

I'm only being cute here. I don't really mean it. I just wanted to make you smile.

Why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't even really know me?

They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.