Stephen Chbosky cytaty

„Wszystko zaczyna umykać bardzo szybko.”

„(…) jesteśmy tacy, jacy jesteśmy z wielu powodów. Być może nigdy nie odkryjemy większości z nich. Ale nawet jeśli nie mamy wpływu na to, skąd pochodzimy, do nas należy wybór, w którą pójdziemy stronę.”

„Nie uważam, że powinno się przywiązywać zbyt dużą uwagę do swojej tuszy, stanu mięśni i fryzury, ale kiedy czasami wygląda się dobrze, to jest naprawdę miłe.”

„Musisz postępować według pewnych zasad, nie dlatego, że chcesz, tylko dlatego, że musisz.”

„Wiesz… Kupa dzieciaków nienawidzi swoich rodziców. Niektóre były bite. Niektóre mają naprawdę ciężkie życie. Niektóre z nich są trofeami rodziców, którzy chwalą się nimi przed sąsiadami, jakby były jakimiś nagrodami.”

„Bo nawet jeśli komuś jest o wiele gorzej niż tobie, ty nadal masz to coś, co masz – dobrego albo złego. (…) Może dobrze jest ustawiać sobie sprawy w perspektywie, ale czasami jedyną perspektywę daję znalezienie się w takiej samej sytuacji.”

„Nie wiedziałem, że ktokolwiek ma jakieś zdanie na mój temat. Nie wiedziałem, że w ogóle mnie zauważają.”

„I przysięgam, w tamtej chwili byliśmy nieskończonością.”

„Tych pięć minut było naprawdę istotne, czuliśmy się szczęśliwi, że jesteśmy młodzi.”

„Wiesz, jeśli chodzi o mnie, to czasem jestem szczęśliwy, a czasem smutny, i ciągle się zastanawiam, jak to możliwe.”

„Nie możesz zawsze uważać cudzego życia za ważniejsze od swojego i sądzić, że na tym polega miłość.”

„(…) wszystko się zmienia. Przyjaciele odchodzą, a życie nie zatrzymuje się w miejscu dla nikogo.”

“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.”