Stephen Chbosky citations

“Tu vois, c'est pas comme dans les films, où les filles préfèrent les salauds ou les mecs dans ce genre. C'est pas aussi simple. Elles aiment les garçons qui peuvent leur donner un but. En fait, avec les mecs, ce qu'elles aiment, c'est relever un défi.”

“Mais même si on ne peut pas choisir d'où on vient, à partir de là, on peut quand même choisir où on veut aller.”

“Parfois, on se réfugie derrière ses pensées pour ne pas avoir à s'impliquer.”

“Nous acceptons l'amour que nous pensons mériter.”

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

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

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

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

“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”

“This moment will just be another story someday.”

“Enjoy it. Because it's happening.”

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

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

“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.”

“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”

“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.”

“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”

“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 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.”