Stephen Chbosky Quotes

It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.

You should tell her how nice her outfit is because her outfit is her choice whereas her face isn't.

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.

Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

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.

There are other people who have it a lot worse

I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.

Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?

So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party

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.

I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.

You get the right collection of people together and you get the atmosphere together that it is very free where there is no judgment. If you create an atmosphere that is very open you steer the ship.

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. they had become stories

You ever think Charlie, that our group is the same as any other group like a football team? And the only real difference between us is what we wear and why we wear it?

Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.

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.

I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.

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.

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.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.

I wish I could stop being in love with Sam. I really do.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

I couldn't believe Sam actually got me a present because i honestly thought the "I love you" was it.

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.

If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.

And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy.

To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.

All I could do is lie there and think about how much her voice changed when she asked me if she was pretty, and how much she changed when I answered.

we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.

Calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear.

Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.

I just don't want you to worry about me, or think you've met me, or waste your time anymore.

Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way.

I wonder what it will be like when I leave this place.

After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.

I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.

I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.

It's strange the times people choose to be generous.

So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

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.

I am really in love with Sam, and it hurts very much.

And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.

The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.

Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why.

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.

Do you always think this much? It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

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.

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.