Charlie Wallflower Quotes

#1. A human being is a naturally political [animal].

Aristotle.

#2. It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

Frantz Fanon

#3. What was her idea?" I ask, my voice like ice.
"For Amelia's heir to marry the prince. Your mother was the one who first thought of this solution... The only problem is... well... we got the heir wrong.

Ally Carter

#4. I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think everyone is special in their own way. I really do.

Stephen Chbosky

#5. Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.

Jean Berko Gleason

#6. No person learned the art of archery from me,
who did not in the end make me his target.

Saadi

#7. He's a wallflower.

Stephen Chbosky

#8. My parents went to Ohio to see a very distant cousin get buried or married. I don't remember which.

Stephen Chbosky

#9. It's nice to have things to look forward to.

Stephen Chbosky

#10. 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.

Stephen Chbosky

#11. So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

Stephen Chbosky

#12. I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my face. Not caring if I saw downtown. Not even thinking about it. Because I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite.

Stephen Chbosky

#13. 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.

Stephen Chbosky

#14. 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.

Stephen Chbosky