Stephen Chbosky Quotes

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“I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for thousands of years. Or just not exist..”

“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.”

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

“I 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.”

“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.”

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

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

“You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”

“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.”

“When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The perfect song on the perfect drive to make you feel infinite.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Like Sam said. Because it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.”

“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.”

“So, I heard you're this ninja or something.”

“The fights are always the same”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.”

“He said it was the kind of book you made your own.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except "be there". I want to make him stop hurting, but I can't.”

“They are all my favourites. All of them.”

“Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does.”

“there was a time when these weren't memories.”

“Because the song was that great and because we all really paid attention to it. Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way.”

“calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear…”

“There are other people who have it a lot worse”

“Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?”

“My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.”

“After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.”

“I wish I knew. It might make me miss him more clearly. It might have made sad sense.”

“I feel infinite.”