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But my dad said it was no excuse.
"But I love him!" I had never seen my sister cry that much.
"No, you don't."
"I hate you!"
"No, you don't." My dad can be very calm sometimes.
"He's my whole world."
"Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me." That was my mom. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It's like when you are 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 always feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means that you're happy, too. -- Stephen Chbosky
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And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I am looking at her and she is so beautiful. -- Stephen Chbosky
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A lot of parents make you feel very awkward when you meet them. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Little kids talk about the strangest things. They really do. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't -- Stephen Chbosky
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It is important to say "sir" at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Are you okay?"
"Leave me alone, Charlie."
"No, really. What's wrong?"
"You wouldn't understand."
"I could try."
"That's a laugh. That's really a laugh."
"Do you want me to wake up Mom and Dad then?"
"No."
"Well, maybe they could -"
"CHARLIE! SHUT UP! OKAY?! JUST SHUT UP! -- Stephen Chbosky
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My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from falling apart. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I just reminded myself that she didn't say it mean. She wasn't making fun of me. She wasn't comparing. Or criticizing. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Enjoy it. Because it's happening. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be a tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. It think that would be nice. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Not every one has a sob story and even if they do, it's no excuse. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy -- Stephen Chbosky
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Incidentally, I only have one cavity, and as much as my dentist asks me to, I just can't bring myself to floss. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It was the look on her face when she said it. And how much she meant it. It suddenly made everything seem like it really was. I felt terrible. Just terrible. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are. -- Stephen Chbosky
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The girl that introduced The Smiths' song 'Asleep' to me was an important musical influence that I met in college. From there it's been an ongoing journey of different bands at different times, introducing bands and songs to me. -- Stephen Chbosky
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So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party -- Stephen Chbosky
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He even let me smoke a cigarette in his office, but he urged me to quit smoking because of the health risks. He even had a pamphlet in his desk that he gave me. I now use it as a bookmark. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of them kept touching his beard. -- Stephen Chbosky
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People who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone. And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being passive aggressive. -- Stephen Chbosky
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As we all know, when you're an athlete things are a little bit easier for you. It didn't mean that what was going on inside my heart wasn't a bit of a thunderstorm, but outwardly I got along ok. I was really shy in seventh grade. -- Stephen Chbosky
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'Rent' was wonderful in that I was able to adapt something that was beloved to fans, something that was very iconic, but something I had nothing to do with the creation of, so I was very removed. 'Perks' is different because it was my book. -- Stephen Chbosky
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To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Go for the knees, throat, and eyes
And I did. And I really hurt Sean. And then I started crying. -- Stephen Chbosky
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For me personally, as much as I don't understand my mom and dad and as much as I feel sorry for them sometimes, I can't help but love them very much. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. I know other people have it a lot worse. I do know that, but it's crashing in anyway, and I just can't stop thinking that the little kid eating french fries with his mom in the shopping mall is going to grow up and my sister. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I was in the shopping mall because that's where I go lately. For the last couple of weeks, I've been going there every day, trying to figure out why people go there. It's kind of a personal project. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don't know why. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Is that you, Charlie?"
"Sam's making me a milkshake. -- Stephen Chbosky
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So, that's what I'm doing until I meet a friend here. I was hoping that the kid who told the truth could become a friend of mine, but I think he was just being a good guy by telling. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I think you of all people are alive and appreciates what that means. -- Stephen Chbosky
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But at one point, Craig was talking about something, and Sam turned to me and smiled. It was a movie smile in slow motion, and then everything was okay. -- Stephen Chbosky
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All the books you've read, have been read by other people and all the songs you've loved, have been heard by other. And that girl that's pretty to you, is pretty to other people. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back -- Stephen Chbosky
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It was the kind of kiss I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know I was never so happy in my whole life. -- Stephen Chbosky
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There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book. -- Stephen Chbosky
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There's nothing like the deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons. It was that great. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Maybe this is the way things are supposed to be but it doesn't feel right -- Stephen Chbosky
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Bill said I was 'developing' at a rapid pace and gave me a different kind of book as a 'reward'. It's On the Road by Jack Kerouac. I'm now up to about ten cigarettes a day. -- Stephen Chbosky
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My dad and my brother and my cousins carry him out to the car of the person who is least angry at him. -- Stephen Chbosky
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If the advice is simply to respect yourself and follow the path that you want to follow, that would be the best advice I could ever pass on. -- Stephen Chbosky
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You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker, ... -- Stephen Chbosky
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I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think everyone is special in their own way. I really do. -- Stephen Chbosky
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The nights he would pick up someone always made him sad. It's hard, too, because Patrick began every night really excited. He always said he felt free. And tonight was his destiny. And things like that. But by the end of that night, he just looked sad. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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And things were back to normal except we were just friends. -- Stephen Chbosky
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Deep down ... she's a good woman ... you should be proud of her. When I told my mom about this, she just looked very sad because he could never say those things to her. Not ever. Not even when he walked her down the aisle. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun. -- Stephen Chbosky
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The movie itself was very interesting, but I didn't think it was very good because I didn't really feel different when it was over. -- Stephen Chbosky
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But right now I'm here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is. -- Stephen Chbosky
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One boy has it particularly hard. I won't tell you his name. But I will tell you all about him. He has very nice brown hair, and he wears it long with a ponytail. I think he will regret this when he looks back on his life. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Dear Friend,
I'm sorry I haven't written to you in a couple of weeks, but I have been trying to 'participate' like Bill said. -- Stephen Chbosky
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The fights are always the same -- Stephen Chbosky
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And he made a home run, and his team won the state championship. The greatest thing about this story is that every time my dad tells it, it never changes. He's not one to exaggerate. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I wasn't raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much. I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven't let Him down regardless. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees her is better than she actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Welcome to the island of misfit toys -- Stephen Chbosky
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I guess Zen is a day like this when you are part of the air and remember things -- Stephen Chbosky
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I had an amazing feeling when I finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in the palm of my hand, there was this one tape that had all of these memories and feelings and great joy and sadness. -- Stephen Chbosky
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This one moment, when you know you're not a sad story. You're alive. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I didn't do things because I didn't want him to think different about me. -- Stephen Chbosky
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And I just let him. Because that's what friends are for. -- Stephen Chbosky
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As I was walking up the stairs to dad's old room, and I was looking at the photographs, I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories. That someone actually took the photograph, and the people in the photograph had just eaten lunch or something. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It's nice to have things to look forward to. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Charlie?'
'Uh-huh?'
'Do you like me?'
'Uh-huh.'
'You know what I mean?'
'Uh-huh.'
'Are you nervous?'
'Uh-huh.'
'Don't be nervous.'
'Okay. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my friend again. And that was enough for me. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I'm sorry I bothered you, Susan. I'm just having a tough time. That's all. Have a good one," I said and walked away. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I'm caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it. -- Stephen Chbosky
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People are alive and appreciate what that means. At least I hope you do because other -- Stephen Chbosky
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Do you know what 'masturbation' is? I think you probably do because you are older than me. But just in case, I will tell you. Masturbation is when you rub your genitals until you have an orgasm. Wow! -- Stephen Chbosky
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We were infinite -- Stephen Chbosky
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This moment will just be another story someday. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if she really isn't like what she was at the beginning, I wish she could have just said so. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this story - to write the novel and then direct the movie. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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you accept the love you think you deserve -- Stephen Chbosky
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Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you? -- Stephen Chbosky
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You know what they say, if you make atleast one friend on your first day you're doing okay -- Stephen Chbosky
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My grandfather always says is "too dry" even if it's soup. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Music is a vital part of my life, and it has been since I was a kid. It helped me find my identity as a person, it helped me find my identity as an artist, and it helped me get in touch with emotions that I didn't know I had. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I am below average! -- Stephen Chbosky
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Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all your dues. -- Stephen Chbosky
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After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens. -- Stephen Chbosky
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He was "resting his eyes," which means he was sleeping
but didn't want me to change the channel. -- Stephen Chbosky
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No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell -- Stephen Chbosky
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I guess when you see somebody in the hallway or on the field or something, it's nice to know that they are a real person. -- Stephen Chbosky
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In the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a real trend in the kind of books bill gives me to read. and just like the tape of songs, it is amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand. they are all my favorites. all of them. -- Stephen Chbosky
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The sound of the radio fades to nothing because the waves just can't reach -- Stephen Chbosky
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The outside lights were on, and it was snowing, and it looked like magic. Like we were somewhere else. Like we were someplace better. -- Stephen Chbosky
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My parents went to Ohio to see a very distant cousin get buried or married. I don't remember which. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I spent all night working on it, and I hope Patrick likes it as much as I do. Especially the second side. 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. I hope it can be that for him. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Nothing like a sore stomach for right reasons -- Stephen Chbosky
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I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me. -- Stephen Chbosky
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You take girls, for example. They're copying their moms and magazines and everything to know how to act around guys. I mean it's not like in movies where girls like assholes or anything like that. It's not that easy. They just like somebody that can give them purpose. -- Stephen Chbosky
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My sister was the one who told me where babies come from. My sister was also the one who laughed when I immediately asked her where babies go to. -- Stephen Chbosky
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So, I guess we are who we are for alot 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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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And I could hear all these songs on the radio, but the radio wasn't on. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want to 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. And if they do something I don't like, I'll tell them. -- Stephen Chbosky
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So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I read an article about Nirvana on one visit, and it didn't have any references to honey mustard dressing or lettuce. They kept talking about the singer's stomach problems all the time, though. It was weird. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things. -- Stephen Chbosky
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If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out. -- Stephen Chbosky
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If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we'll see. I'm taking it day by day. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I was just trying to be a friend,' I said. 'But you weren't, Charlie. At those times, you weren't being his friend at all. Because you weren't honest with him. -- Stephen Chbosky
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The juniors were acting different because they are now the seniors. They even had T-shirts made. I don't know who plans these things. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Maybe it's sad that these are now memories. And maybe it's not sad. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It's much easier not to know things sometimes. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I just really want a milkshake -- Stephen Chbosky
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I have to say that it was the best milkshake I ever had in my life. It was so delicious, it almost scared me. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I put the book down and went to the window. I stared at my reflection and the trees behind it for a long time. Not thinking anything. Not hearing the record. -- Stephen Chbosky
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You know ... a lot of kids at school hate their parents. Some of them got hit. And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives. Some of them were trophies for their parents to show the neighbors like ribbons or gold stars. And some of them just wanted to drink in peace. -- Stephen Chbosky
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she hated everything her parents loved -- Stephen Chbosky
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We are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Her whisper smelled like cranberry juice and vodka. -- Stephen Chbosky
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'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I guess that's natural, but I'm not sure why. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I just kind of put my feelings away somewhere after that. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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We except the love we think we deserve". -- Stephen Chbosky
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If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay. -- Stephen Chbosky
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They've been talking about their prom nonstop. Even the people that think it's a "joke" like Mary Elizabeth can't stop talking about what a "joke" it is. It's all very fun to witness. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It's just that 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. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too. -- Stephen Chbosky
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What has 32 legs and 1 tooth?'
What?' we all asked.
A West Virginia unemployment line. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It's just that some people walk with their heads to the ground for some reason. They don't like to look other people in the eye. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Something really is wrong with me. And I don't know what it is. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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This was a different kind of crying -- Stephen Chbosky
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Bridget who is crazy said that sometimes she thought about suicide when commercials come on during TV. She was sincere and this puzzled the guidance counselors. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book. My -- Stephen Chbosky
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And it all felt very unsettling to me. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don't sell it, and you do it yourself, and you wait until the screenplay is ready, you don't have to worry about that. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them. -- Stephen Chbosky
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The most beautiful surprise is that you have these moments where you connect with people on a deep level without saying a word. It's one of those wonderful things that you get what you give, and I'm grateful for it. -- Stephen Chbosky
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But Mary Elizabeth felt different. She kept saying it was an "articulate" film. So "articulate." And I guess it was. The thing is, I didn't know what it said even if it said it very well. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be the tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. I think that would be nice. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Sam has brown hair and very, very pretty green eyes. The kind of green that doesn't make a big deal about itself. -- Stephen Chbosky
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She wasn't bitter. But it was a hopeful kind of sad that just takes time -- Stephen Chbosky
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I would tell you about the rest of the night, but i honestly dont remember much about it. It's all a very sad daze. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I said no to having a beer. I once had a beer with my brother when I was twelve, and I just didn't like it. It's really that simple for me. [pp.37] -- Stephen Chbosky
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That scared me a lot. It scared me how much it scared me. Being punished for something you did not do. Or being an innocent victim. It's just something that I never want to experience. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I know I should have been grateful because it was a very nice thing to do. But I wasn't grateful. I wasn't grateful at all. Don't get me wrong. I acted like I was. But I wasn't. To tell you the truth, I was starting to get mad. -- Stephen Chbosky
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More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain. -- Stephen Chbosky
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But I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica. My -- Stephen Chbosky
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I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica. -- Stephen Chbosky
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But after a while, the whole thing just wasn't interesting to him anymore, and he ran out of things to keep himself numb. -- Stephen Chbosky
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And let the quiet put things where they're supposed to be -- Stephen Chbosky
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It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Five minutes of a lifetime -- Stephen Chbosky
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I thought if I didnt take a break, I would do something even worse. Like yell or hang up the phone. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Bill looks different without a suit. He was wearing his old graduate school T-shirt. Which was Brown. The school. Not the color. His girlfriend was wearing sandals and a nice flowered dress. She even had hair under her arms. No kidding! -- Stephen Chbosky
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Things just keep going. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Be skeptical about this one. It's a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I really do love my sister. Especially when she's nice. -- Stephen Chbosky
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If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone. -- Stephen Chbosky
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The perfect song on the perfect drive to make you feel infinite. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph
would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the
photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. If I took
it, I would know that the only reason it's beautiful is because of
Sam. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my face. Not caring if I saw downtown. Not even thinking about it. Because I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I look at people holding hands in the hallways, and I try to think about how it all works. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Next was Alice. I gave her a book by Anne Rice because she is always talking about her. And she looked at me like she couldn't believe I knew she loved Anne Rice. I guess she didn't know how much she talked or how much I listen. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Patrick used to be popular, until Sam bought him some good music. -- Stephen Chbosky
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And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn't do or what they didn't know. I don't know. I guess there would always be someone to blame. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I feel infinite. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Please don't try to figure out who she is because then you might figure -- Stephen Chbosky
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The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I just listened to the music, and breathed in the day, and remembered things. Things like walking around the neighborhood and looking at the houses and the lawns and the colorful trees and having that be enough. -- Stephen Chbosky
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He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying. -- Stephen Chbosky
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The teacher has assigned us a few chapters at a time, but I do not like to read books like -- Stephen Chbosky
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And I never felt that good in my life. But I also felt bad because I saw her naked without her permission. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I've been watching cable television and eating jello. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Sometimes, I look at my parents now and wonder what happened to make them the way they are. -- Stephen Chbosky
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And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives. -- Stephen Chbosky
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My mom was so upset that she took me shopping for new clothes. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Charlie, you're one of the most gifted people I've ever known. And I don't mean in terms of my other students. I mean in terms of anyone I've ever met. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live. -- Stephen Chbosky
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After the song finished, I said something.
"I feel infinite."
And Sam and Patrick looked at me like I said the gratest things they ever heard. -- Stephen Chbosky
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You can't just sit their and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Some people really do have it a lot worse than I do. They really do. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I wanted the angel to come down and show us how Uncle Billy's life had meaning. Then, I think I'd feel better. -- Stephen Chbosky
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The problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone and because of that, it discredits people ... -- Stephen Chbosky
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She thanked me for not trying to make what I did seem less by offering a lot of excuses. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Enjoy it. Because it is happening. -- Stephen Chbosky
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As you see the opening get closer, you just can't get fast enough. And finally, just when you think you'll never get there, you see the opening right in front of you. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I think you of all people would understand that because you of all people are alive and appreciate what that means. -- Stephen Chbosky
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The reason I am thinking so far in advance is because school is terribly lonely. I think I've said that before, but it's getting harder every day. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I just wish Mary Elizabeth would ask me questions other than What's up? -- Stephen Chbosky
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just be yourself -- Stephen Chbosky
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Things get worse before they get better, but this is a worse that feels too big. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It's strange to think about your teachers as being people. -- Stephen Chbosky
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There are other people who have it a lot worse -- Stephen Chbosky
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They are all my favourites. All of them. -- Stephen Chbosky
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You should tell her how nice
her outfit is because her outfit is her choice whereas her face isn't. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I don't want to be just another thing mary elizabeth is in charge of -- Stephen Chbosky
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Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be. -- Stephen Chbosky
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So, I heard you're this ninja or something. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I'm just thinking too fast-- much too fast. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I am really in love with Sam, and it hurts very much. -- Stephen Chbosky
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And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy. -- Stephen Chbosky
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And for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I don't know if it is important to tell you all this, but at the time, it felt like a "breakthrough". -- Stephen Chbosky
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She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Then the movie started. It was in a foreign language and had subtitles, which was fun because I had never read a movie before. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I wish I knew. It might make me miss him more clearly. It might have made sad sense. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It's strange the times people choose to be generous. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It's strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Patrick said that the problem was that since everything has happened already, it makes it hard to break new ground. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have. -- Stephen Chbosky
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As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I wonder what my speech would be. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Maybe this are my glory days, and I'm not even realizing it ... -- Stephen Chbosky
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There is nothing like taking deep breaths after laughing that hard. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I feel infinite"
- Charlie -- Stephen Chbosky
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I would die for you. But I won't live for you. -- Stephen Chbosky
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He herd that it was some kid's suicide note. I really hope it wasn't because then I don't know if I like the ending -- Stephen Chbosky
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What the fuck is wrong with you? -- Stephen Chbosky
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My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom's sister. She got straight A's when she was a teenager and she used to give me books to read. My father said that the books were a little too old for me, but I liked them so he just shrugged and let me read. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I'm only being cute here. I don't really mean it. I just wanted to make you smile. -- Stephen Chbosky
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they were really having fun being cynical, and I didn't want to ruin it. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I hate you"
"No, you don't." My dad can be very calm sometimes.
"He's my hole world"
"Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me." That was my mom. [pp.28] -- Stephen Chbosky
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She was being like those bratty girls in movies from the 1980s, and my mom kept saying "Young Lady" after every sentence. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I've never understood the need people have to dictate morality to other people. I really don't know what it is. I don't know if it's fear or the belief that they know the only right way. Or maybe they see a lot of social ills and social decline, and they really think they have the elixir for it. -- Stephen Chbosky
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We Are All Infinite -- Stephen Chbosky
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If you ever do this again, I'll tell everyone. And if that doesn't work, I'll blind you. -- Stephen Chbosky
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You get the right collection of people together and you get the atmosphere together that it is very free where there is no judgment. If you create an atmosphere that is very open you steer the ship. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It was like when you see a movie in the theater during the day, and when you leave the movie, you can't believe that it's still daylight outside -- Stephen Chbosky
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I mean it's not like in the movies where girls like assholes or anything like that. It's not that easy. They just like somebody that can give them a purpose. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Try to be a filter, not a sponge. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I really want to be a writer but I don't know what to write about"

"You could write about us -- Stephen Chbosky
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I read the book again that night because I knew that if I didn't, I would probably start crying again. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I couldn't believe Sam actually got me a present because i honestly thought the "I love you" was it. -- Stephen Chbosky
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All I could do is lie there and think about how much her voice changed when she asked me if she was pretty, and how much she changed when I answered. -- Stephen Chbosky
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1617I swear in that moment we were infinite -- Stephen Chbosky
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Every person has to live his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Do you always think this much, Charlie?" "Is that bad?" "Not necessarily. It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life." "Is that bad?" "Yes. -- Stephen Chbosky
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And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Most of the people I know who were raised to be accommodating or were raised to just be nice and put everybody's needs ahead of theirs, there comes a moment when the pressure builds and they can't do it anymore. They have needs and they feel neglected and they usually explode. -- Stephen Chbosky
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On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead. -- Stephen Chbosky
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The two families really don't like each other, except for all us younger cousins because we don't know any better. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Counselor sessions, they asked the few of us who actually liked Michael to say a few words. I think they were afraid that some -- Stephen Chbosky
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Math has never made any sense to me. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm. -- Stephen Chbosky
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You ever think Charlie, that our group is the same as any other group like a football team? And the only real difference between us is what we wear and why we wear it? -- Stephen Chbosky
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It takes seven years to digest gum. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I guess she didn't know how much she talked or how much I listened. -- Stephen Chbosky
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And I know things have to get worse before they get better. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I guess I could tell people about Punk Rocky and walking home from school and things like that. Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not even realizing it because they don't involve a ball. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Love always, Charlie -- Stephen Chbosky
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I just don't want you to worry about me, or think you've met me, or waste your time anymore. -- Stephen Chbosky
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And I made Aunt Helen a promise to only cry about important things because I would hate to think that crying as much as I do would make crying for Aunt Helen less than it is. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Sam told me as we were hanging up our coats that Bob was "baked like a fucking
cake." I really had to quote that one even though it has a swear. -- Stephen Chbosky
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The radio comes back even louder than you remember it. -- Stephen Chbosky
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The good news is that I read the book, and because of its fantasy nature, I could not pretend that I was in the book. That way I could participate and still read. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I wonder what it will be like when I leave this place. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I don't want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can't think again. Not ever again. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Does anyone want any chips? -- Stephen Chbosky
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the magazine compared him with John Lennon from the Beatles. I told that to Sam later, and she got really mad. She said he was like Jim Morrison if he was like anybody, but really, he isn't like anybody but himself. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Girls are weird, and I don't mean that offensively. I just can't put it any other way. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Life doesn't stop for anybody -- Stephen Chbosky
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I've been trying hard to not be a loser. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It's like my very first memory, which I guess is the first time I was aware that I was alive. -- Stephen Chbosky
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When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there. -- Stephen Chbosky
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What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably? -- Stephen Chbosky
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'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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows. -- Stephen Chbosky
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And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Everyone is special in their own way. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs.
I wonder how they feel tonight. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It would be very nice to have a friend again. I would like that even more than a date. -- Stephen Chbosky
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We just want her to know that we miss her, and we think of her, and she was special. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away. -- Stephen Chbosky
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We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough -- Stephen Chbosky
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Especially since I know that if they went to another school, the person who had their heart broken would have had their heart broken by somebody else, so why does it have to be so personal? -- Stephen Chbosky
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He's a wallflower. -- Stephen Chbosky
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He's my whole world."
"Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I knew it wasn't fair, though, to ruin her time just because I miss everybody, so I just said good night and left. -- Stephen Chbosky
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The gift from my Secret Santa wasn't anything special. That makes me sad. I bet you anything that Mary Elizabeth is my Secret Santa because only she would give me socks. -- Stephen Chbosky
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He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. Suffering is Finite, but I feel infinite. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I just want you to know that you're very special ... and the only reason I'm telling you is that I don't know if anyone else ever has. -- Stephen Chbosky
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What's your favorite book?
"The last one I read. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I wish I could stop being in love with Sam. I really do. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I went to the library to look up the figures, and I found out that the episode we watched is the highest watched anything of television history, which I find amazing because it felt like just the five of us. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Regardless, I decided to never take LSD again. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write. -- Stephen Chbosky
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As people get older, we all know, you get married and you have a child and that becomes your family, but when you're 16 years old, especially, your family is your friends. -- Stephen Chbosky
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She said I was the most sensitive boy she'd ever met, which
I didn't understand because really all I did was not interrupt her. -- Stephen Chbosky
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My mom chooses her battles carefully, and I can tell you one thing about my family. When my mom does say something, she always gets her way. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't even really know me? -- Stephen Chbosky
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Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way. -- Stephen Chbosky
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And even if she says no, and really means yes, then quite frankly she's playing games and isn't worth the price of dinner. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I wonder if that's a small price to pay for being a legend. -- Stephen Chbosky
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You see things You keep quiet about them. You understand. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Craig looked handsome as well, but he wore a suit instead of a tux. That's not why they broke up. -- Stephen Chbosky
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On that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. i just typed. "i will. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It's too bad you're not gay. Then again, if you were gay, I would never date you. You're a mess."
You know, Patrick? If I were gay, I'd want to date you."
Of course. -- Stephen Chbosky
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The nerds and the squids were one. -- Stephen Chbosky
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calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear... -- Stephen Chbosky
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Enjoy it. Because t is happening. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I'm going to do what i want to do.
I'm going to be who i really am.
And i'm going to figure out what that is.
-Sam -- Stephen Chbosky
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After I finished, I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and I smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet. -- Stephen Chbosky
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He said it was the kind of book you made your own. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. I really do -- Stephen Chbosky
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Then, we all laughed because we knew we could get in trouble for swearing, but the strength of our numbers would prevent any retribution. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I don't think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it's nice. It really is. The -- Stephen Chbosky
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I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay? -- Stephen Chbosky
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In other words, there was no pain. There was no pain anymore. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating a large canvas and all the details. -- Stephen Chbosky
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It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt. -- Stephen Chbosky
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We are who we are for a lot of reasons -- Stephen Chbosky
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I guess I'm pretty emotional. -- Stephen Chbosky
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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? -- Stephen Chbosky
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Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball. -- Stephen Chbosky
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Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone -- Stephen Chbosky
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I was looking at this tree but it was a dragon and then a tree, -- Stephen Chbosky
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I realized that it happened every Saturday when we would watch television. -- Stephen Chbosky
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This is not a time for heroes because nobody will let that happen -- Stephen Chbosky
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What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms? -- Stephen Chbosky
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He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand. -- Stephen Chbosky
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I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. -- Stephen Chbosky
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And because I don't want to start thinking again -- Stephen Chbosky