“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 , book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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