Top 100 Stephen Chbosky Quotes
#1. If the advice is simply to respect yourself and follow the path that you want to follow, that would be the best advice I could ever pass on.
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#2. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people participate.
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#3. No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell
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#5. 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.
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#6. Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker, ...
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#8. 'Rent' was wonderful in that I was able to adapt something that was beloved to fans, something that was very iconic, but something I had nothing to do with the creation of, so I was very removed. 'Perks' is different because it was my book.
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#9. I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.
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#10. In the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a real trend in the kind of books bill gives me to read. and just like the tape of songs, it is amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand. they are all my favorites. all of them.
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#11. Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be.
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#12. Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective.
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#13. Please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.
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#14. I put the book down and went to the window. I stared at my reflection and the trees behind it for a long time. Not thinking anything. Not hearing the record.
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#15. So, that's what I'm doing until I meet a friend here. I was hoping that the kid who told the truth could become a friend of mine, but I think he was just being a good guy by telling.
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#16. Patrick used to be popular, until Sam bought him some good music.
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#17. Charlie, you're one of the most gifted people I've ever known. And I don't mean in terms of my other students. I mean in terms of anyone I've ever met.
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#18. Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy
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#19. Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.
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#20. Things get worse before they get better, but this is a worse that feels too big.
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#21. 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.
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#22. I had an amazing feeling when I finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in the palm of my hand, there was this one tape that had all of these memories and feelings and great joy and sadness.
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#23. 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.
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#24. To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.
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#25. She wasn't bitter. But it was a hopeful kind of sad that just takes time
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#26. I wanted the angel to come down and show us how Uncle Billy's life had meaning. Then, I think I'd feel better.
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#30. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book. My
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#31. As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me.
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#32. You know ... a lot of kids at school hate their parents. Some of them got hit. And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives. Some of them were trophies for their parents to show the neighbors like ribbons or gold stars. And some of them just wanted to drink in peace.
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#34. What has 32 legs and 1 tooth?'
What?' we all asked.
A West Virginia unemployment line.
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#35. 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.
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#36. And I made Aunt Helen a promise to only cry about important things because I would hate to think that crying as much as I do would make crying for Aunt Helen less than it is.
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#37. I don't want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can't think again. Not ever again.
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#38. Are you okay?"
"Leave me alone, Charlie."
"No, really. What's wrong?"
"You wouldn't understand."
"I could try."
"That's a laugh. That's really a laugh."
"Do you want me to wake up Mom and Dad then?"
"No."
"Well, maybe they could -"
"CHARLIE! SHUT UP! OKAY?! JUST SHUT UP!
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#40. 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.
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#41. You know what they say, if you make atleast one friend on your first day you're doing okay
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#42. I wish I knew. It might make me miss him more clearly. It might have made sad sense.
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#43. 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.
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#44. 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.
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#46. Despite everything my mom and doctor and dad have said to me about blame, I can't stop thinking what I know. And I know that my aunt Helen would still be alive today if she just bought me one present like everybody else. She would be alive if I were born on a day that didn't snow.
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#47. And things were back to normal except we were just friends.
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#48. People are alive and appreciate what that means. At least I hope you do because other
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#49. 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.
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#50. I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.
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#51. I read the book again that night because I knew that if I didn't, I would probably start crying again.
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#52. I was looking at this tree but it was a dragon and then a tree,
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#53. Counselor sessions, they asked the few of us who actually liked Michael to say a few words. I think they were afraid that some
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#54. If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.
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#55. Charlie?'
'Uh-huh?'
'Do you like me?'
'Uh-huh.'
'You know what I mean?'
'Uh-huh.'
'Are you nervous?'
'Uh-huh.'
'Don't be nervous.'
'Okay.
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#56. Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don't know why.
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#57. She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.
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#58. Not every one has a sob story and even if they do, it's no excuse.
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#60. 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.
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#61. So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party
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#62. Then, we all laughed because we knew we could get in trouble for swearing, but the strength of our numbers would prevent any retribution.
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#63. 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.
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#64. I would tell you about the rest of the night, but i honestly dont remember much about it. It's all a very sad daze.
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#65. So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.
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#66. I hate you"
"No, you don't." My dad can be very calm sometimes.
"He's my hole world"
"Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me." That was my mom. [pp.28]
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#67. It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.
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#68. What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?
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#69. I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.
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#71. 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.
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#73. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. Suffering is Finite, but I feel infinite.
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#74. When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there.
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#76. Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.
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#78. Especially since I know that if they went to another school, the person who had their heart broken would have had their heart broken by somebody else, so why does it have to be so personal?
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#79. And I know things have to get worse before they get better.
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#80. Craig looked handsome as well, but he wore a suit instead of a tux. That's not why they broke up.
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#82. Do you know what 'masturbation' is? I think you probably do because you are older than me. But just in case, I will tell you. Masturbation is when you rub your genitals until you have an orgasm. Wow!
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#83. I really want to be a writer but I don't know what to write about"
"You could write about us
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#84. Sam has brown hair and very, very pretty green eyes. The kind of green that doesn't make a big deal about itself.
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#85. Do you always think this much, Charlie?" "Is that bad?" "Not necessarily. It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life." "Is that bad?" "Yes.
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#86. 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. The
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#87. Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.
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#88. After I finished, I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and I smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.
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#89. There is nothing like taking deep breaths after laughing that hard.
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#90. 'Harold and Maude' was a seminal movie for me because it's not only a beautiful love story, but it's also about the moment when misfits find each other.
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#92. I'm going to do what i want to do.
I'm going to be who i really am.
And i'm going to figure out what that is.
-Sam
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#94. 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.
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#95. 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.
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#96. I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.
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#97. I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.
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#98. The good news is that I read the book, and because of its fantasy nature, I could not pretend that I was in the book. That way I could participate and still read.
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#99. Patrick said that the problem was that since everything has happened already, it makes it hard to break new ground.
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#100. My dad and my brother and my cousins carry him out to the car of the person who is least angry at him.
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