Stephen Chbosky Quotes

“It's much easier not to know things sometimes.”

“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.”

“I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I really do love my sister. Especially when she's nice.”

“I wish I could stop being in love with Sam. I really do.”

“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.”

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

“Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.”

“I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.”

“no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell”

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”

“This moment will just be another story someday.”

“Every person has to live his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people.”

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”

“She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.”

“We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough”

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

“Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.”

“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.”

“It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.”

“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.”

“Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”

“Try to be a filter, not a sponge.”

“Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.”

“I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.”

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

“If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I just don't want you to worry about me, or think you've met me, or waste your time anymore.”

“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.”

“Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.”

“It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.”

“What's your favorite book?
"The last one I read.”

“He’s my whole world.”
“Don’t ever say that about anyone again. Not even me.”

“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.”

“Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.”

“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 was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.”

“And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.”

“people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.”

“Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why.”

“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.”

“As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me.”

“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.”

“I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.”

“Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing"; - "We accept the love we think we deserve”

“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”

“Something really is wrong with me. And I don't know what it is.”

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

“Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I've been watching cable television and eating jello.”

“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.”