Quotes About Wallflower

#1. Miss Wilhelmina Radcliff was reluctantly coming to the unfortunate conclusion that there were absolutely no perks to be had when one obtained the unenviable title of wallflower. Taking

Jen Turano

#2. Will I have to use a litter box?
Emma to Max after he just explained she'll be turning into a puma shifter
The Wallflower (Halle Pumas Book 1)

Dana Marie Bell

#3. You might be a wallflower," he agreed, "but there's more to you, isn't there?"
"Why would you say that?"
"In my experience, the quietest women tend to be the most adventurous. There's a wildness that they let no one see.

Michelle Willingham

#4. I'm a tone-deaf siren, a wallflower at the mating dance. And I do wonder why men can't want me for me. I'm smart, I don't defer, and I didn't put making babies number one on my list of priorities.

Arthur C. Clarke

#5. I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.

Stephen Chbosky

#6. I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.

Naomie Harris

#7. I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will.

Carol Burnett

#8. When everyone else saw the two of them, they saw Gavin who was nothing but trouble and Davy who was a wallflower, but in Gavin's estimation, if you looked inside you'd see that Gavin was just a scared little boy and Davy was his hero.

Kade Boehme

#9. I was such a wallflower in high school. I did a lot of extracurricular theatre shows, but at school, I spent a lot of time by myself. I ate lunch by myself, and I was always okay with it. But I was definitely made fun of, and I always felt like an outsider.

Melissa Benoist

#10. I want to go to Harry Potter Land! I actually should text Emma Watson to see if she can hook us up with a backstage pass or something. That's the perk of doing a movie with Emma called 'The Perks Of Being A Wallflower.'

Nina Dobrev

#11. He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.

Stephen Chbosky

#12. I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' ... It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it.

Logan Lerman

#13. Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with.

Jenna Fischer

#14. I'm not very good at parties. I'm a wallflower.

Sasha Grey

#15. My favorite book is 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky.

Emma Roberts

#16. Stay in school and be a respectful and hardworking wallflower, and go to an accredited non-online university

Mindy Kaling

#17. Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower.

Julia Quinn

#18. Starting this day, she was no longer going to be quiet, a wallflower no more.

Magenta Periwinkle

#19. I was a wallflower who planned to stay that way, who never imagined anybody else to be.

Rob Sheffield

#20. Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to your mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe.

Melissa De La Cruz

#21. There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom - but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards.

Sarah MacLean

#22. He couldn't walk away. Not when the wallflower needed rescuing.

His dratted Achilles' heel, no matter how disastrous the outcome tended to be.

Erica Ridley

#23. I wrapped my arms around his waist. "You called me your girl." I nodded, waggling my eyebrows. "And," I continued, "you'd better believe this little wallflower will cut a bitch with that knife of yours if anyone lays a hand on you.

Penelope Douglas

#24. As an experienced wallflower, Violet Winterbottom knew to stake her ground and guard it. She'd

Tessa Dare

#25. Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at an orgy. I always seem to find myself at a perfectly wonderful event where everyone else is having a marvelous time, laughing merrily, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes on it all.

Nora Ephron

#26. The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.

Dagmara Dominczyk

#27. That does not make me feel better."
He chuckled. "It doesn't?"
"No. I feel like the wallflower being patronised by the cool guy."
"You're not a wallflower."
"Says the cool guy.

Amy Andrews

#28. I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.

Alexander McQueen

#29. I wonder if he thinks he married a girl with two personalities: vixen and wallflower.

Christina Lauren

#30. In 'Summer and Smoke,' I was supposed to be a plain-Jane wallflower, and instead, I had all these costumes. I looked like a Barbie doll.

Geraldine Page

#31. You're no longer a wallflower, nor a virgin, nor the helpless child who had to endure life with the Maybricks. You're a viscountess with a sizable fortune, and a scoundrel of a husband. Whose rules will you adhere to now?

Lisa Kleypas

#32. Lust, desire and passion. They can turn a wallflower into a sexual predator and a rational person into a raving lunatic.

Joanne Madeline Moore

#33. Like a wallflower he stayed in the background waiting for someone to fetch him, someone more courageous and stronger than himself to tear him away and force him into happiness.

Hermann Hesse

#34. My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.

Jessie J.

#35. But better to be out on the floor doing something - even if it couldn't exactly be called dancing - than playing wallflower, with only painful memories for company.

Melissa Tagg

#36. Never overlook wallflower at dance; may be dandelion in grass.

Confucius

#37. The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

Nora Ephron

#38. Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.

Phyllis Smith

#39. Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#40. To be honest, Nick, I'd be surprised to hear these three speaking of having their heart stolen ... with an attitude like this ... I'm guessing this lot is much more interested in who will be the first man to have his heart stolen
they don't seem the wallflower type.

Sarah MacLean

#41. In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.

Jemaine Clement

#42. He's a wallflower.

Stephen Chbosky

#43. Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back.

Carrie Fisher

#44. The wall is home base. The wall won't move. If I stand at the wall, I won't be expected to move. This is what it means to be a wallflower. Now I understand.

Ned Vizzini

#45. I was a wallflower when I was younger, and at a young age, I was too embarrassed. So I didn't start dancing until around 20, and obviously when you're in a boy band, you kinda have to.

Drew Lachey

#46. She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

Stephen Chbosky

#47. I'm caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.

Stephen Chbosky

#48. So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

Stephen Chbosky

#49. It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

Stephen Chbosky

#50. 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.

Stephen Chbosky

#51. I am below average!

Stephen Chbosky

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be a tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. It think that would be nice.

Stephen Chbosky

#56. 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.

Stephen Chbosky

#57. Most people don't have facades," Natalie said drily. "Oh everyone thinks they do, but when you dig below the facade, there is only more facade.

Lisa Kleypas

#58. 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.

Stephen Chbosky

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. Maybe it's sad that these are now memories. And maybe it's not sad.

Stephen Chbosky

#62. We are who we are for a lot of reasons

Stephen Chbosky

#63. I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees her is better than she actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera.

Stephen Chbosky

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

Stephen Chbosky

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

Stephen Chbosky

#66. Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

Stephen Chbosky

#67. I don't want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can't think again. Not ever again.

Stephen Chbosky

#68. He said it was the kind of book you made your own.

Stephen Chbosky

#69. We Are All Infinite

Stephen Chbosky

#70. 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

#71. But my dad said it was no excuse.
"But I love him!" I had never seen my sister cry that much.
"No, you don't."
"I hate you!"
"No, you don't." My dad can be very calm sometimes.
"He's my whole world."
"Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me." That was my mom.

Stephen Chbosky

#72. In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance.

Robert Galbraith

#73. I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.

Stephen Chbosky

#74. No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell

Stephen Chbosky