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61 " It's much easier not to know things sometimes. "
― Stephen Chbosky , The Perks of Being a Wallflower
62 " I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. "
― Stephen Chbosky
63 " And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to hear Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them. "
64 " I know I should have been grateful because it was a very nice thing to do. But I wasn't grateful. I wasn't grateful at all. Don't get me wrong. I acted like I was. But I wasn't. To tell you the truth, I was starting to get mad. "
65 " I thought if I didnt take a break, I would do something even worse. Like yell or hang up the phone. "
66 " I just reminded myself that she didn't say it mean. She wasn't making fun of me. She wasn't comparing. Or criticizing. "
67 " I just kind of put my feelings away somewhere after that. "
68 " It's nice to have things to look forward to. "
69 " she hated everything her parents loved "
70 " I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. "
71 " 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. "
72 " So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. 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. But right now I'm here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do. "
73 " I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it won't change the fact that they are upset. "
74 " It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back "
75 " Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. "
76 " You know I blamed Craig for not letting me do things? You know how stupid I feel about that now? Maybe he didn't really encourage me to do things, but he didn't prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn't do things because I didn't want him to think different about me. But the things is, I wasn't being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't really even know me? "
77 " 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. You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. "
78 " I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning. "
79 " Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be. "
80 " I know that things get worse before they get better because that's what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big. "