Top 100 Stephen Chbosky Quotes
#1. My favorite book is 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky.
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#2. I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.
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#4. It's like when you are excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to always feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means that you're happy, too.
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#6. 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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#7. I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't
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#8. To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
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#9. 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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#10. It's just that some people walk with their heads to the ground for some reason. They don't like to look other people in the eye.
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#11. Dear Friend,
I'm sorry I haven't written to you in a couple of weeks, but I have been trying to 'participate' like Bill said.
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#12. 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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#13. I was just trying to be a friend,' I said. 'But you weren't, Charlie. At those times, you weren't being his friend at all. Because you weren't honest with him.
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#14. After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.
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#16. Bridget who is crazy said that sometimes she thought about suicide when commercials come on during TV. She was sincere and this puzzled the guidance counselors.
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#17. Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.
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#18. It's strange to think about your teachers as being people.
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#19. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that.
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#20. I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
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#21. 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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#24. Bill looks different without a suit. He was wearing his old graduate school T-shirt. Which was Brown. The school. Not the color. His girlfriend was wearing sandals and a nice flowered dress. She even had hair under her arms. No kidding!
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#25. Deep down ... she's a good woman ... you should be proud of her. When I told my mom about this, she just looked very sad because he could never say those things to her. Not ever. Not even when he walked her down the aisle.
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#26. It was the kind of kiss I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know I was never so happy in my whole life.
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#27. Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker, ...
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#28. I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.
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#29. I spent all night working on it, and I hope Patrick likes it as much as I do. Especially the second side. I hope it's the kind of second side that he can listen to whenever he drives alone and feel like he belongs to something whenever he's sad. I hope it can be that for him.
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#31. The fact that one of these ladies was my mom made me particularly sad because my mom is beautiful. And she's always on a diet. Sometimes, my dad calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear him.
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#32. I guess Zen is a day like this when you are part of the air and remember things
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#33. My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.
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#34. '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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#35. 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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#36. I'm so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. I really do. I hope you do, too. Okay, then. Goodbye.
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#37. 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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#38. I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.
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#39. Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun.
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#42. Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be.
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#43. 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.
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#44. It was the look on her face when she said it. And how much she meant it. It suddenly made everything seem like it really was. I felt terrible. Just terrible.
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#45. Go for the knees, throat, and eyes
And I did. And I really hurt Sean. And then I started crying.
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#46. I don't want to be just another thing mary elizabeth is in charge of
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#47. Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective.
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#48. 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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#50. 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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#51. You should tell her how nice
her outfit is because her outfit is her choice whereas her face isn't.
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#52. The sound of the radio fades to nothing because the waves just can't reach
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#53. I'm sorry I bothered you, Susan. I'm just having a tough time. That's all. Have a good one," I said and walked away.
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#54. You can't just sit their and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't.
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#55. 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.
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#56. I thought if I didnt take a break, I would do something even worse. Like yell or hang up the phone.
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#57. After the song finished, I said something.
"I feel infinite."
And Sam and Patrick looked at me like I said the gratest things they ever heard.
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#58. 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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#59. My grandfather always says is "too dry" even if it's soup.
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#60. Patrick used to be popular, until Sam bought him some good music.
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#61. I wasn't raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much. I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven't let Him down regardless.
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#62. I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.
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#63. I just reminded myself that she didn't say it mean. She wasn't making fun of me. She wasn't comparing. Or criticizing.
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#64. And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives.
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#65. I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.
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#66. I look at people holding hands in the hallways, and I try to think about how it all works.
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#69. 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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#70. It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph
would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the
photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. If I took
it, I would know that the only reason it's beautiful is because of
Sam.
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#71. 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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#72. A lot of parents make you feel very awkward when you meet them.
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#73. 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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#74. People who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.
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#75. My mom was so upset that she took me shopping for new clothes.
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#76. But at one point, Craig was talking about something, and Sam turned to me and smiled. It was a movie smile in slow motion, and then everything was okay.
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#77. The most beautiful surprise is that you have these moments where you connect with people on a deep level without saying a word. It's one of those wonderful things that you get what you give, and I'm grateful for it.
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#78. I said no to having a beer. I once had a beer with my brother when I was twelve, and I just didn't like it. It's really that simple for me. [pp.37]
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#79. Things get worse before they get better, but this is a worse that feels too big.
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#81. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder.
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#82. I just wish Mary Elizabeth would ask me questions other than What's up?
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#83. The reason I am thinking so far in advance is because school is terribly lonely. I think I've said that before, but it's getting harder every day.
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#84. I think you of all people would understand that because you of all people are alive and appreciate what that means.
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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.
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#89. Some people really do have it a lot worse than I do. They really do.
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#91. The perfect song on the perfect drive to make you feel infinite.
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#92. She thanked me for not trying to make what I did seem less by offering a lot of excuses.
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#93. Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.
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#94. 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.
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#95. 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.
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#96. She wasn't bitter. But it was a hopeful kind of sad that just takes time
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#97. The problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone and because of that, it discredits people ...
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#98. There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.
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#99. The nights he would pick up someone always made him sad. It's hard, too, because Patrick began every night really excited. He always said he felt free. And tonight was his destiny. And things like that. But by the end of that night, he just looked sad.
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#100. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.
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