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The Perks Of Being A Wallflower Quotes
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- “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 - “So, I guess we are who we are for a lot 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 - “Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.”
― Stephen Chbosky - “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 - “It’s nice to have things to look forward to.”
― Stephen Chbosky - “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 - “Things change, friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky - “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 - “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 - “I don’t know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.”
― Stephen Chbosky - “I didn’t feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial that advertised an exercise machine. They kept flashing a 1-800 number, so I called it. The woman who picked up the other end of the phone was named Michelle. And I told Michelle that I was a kid and did not need an exercise machine, but I hoped she was having a good night.
That’s when Michelle hung up on me. And I didn’t mind a bit.”
― Stephen Chbosky - “Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.”
― Stephen Chbosky - “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 - “There’s nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for all the right reasons”
― Stephen Chbosky - “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 Chobosky - “So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them.”
― Stephen Chbosky - “He said it was the kind of book you made your own.”
― Stephen Chbosky - “I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all become somebody’s mom or dad. But right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening. I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive. And you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song, and that drive with the people who you love most in this world. And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky - “The only perspective is to really be there.”
― Stephen Chbosky - “So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them.”
― Stephen Chbosky - “It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.”
― Stephen Chbosky - “That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.”
― Stephen Chbosky - “I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. Little kids who looked tired. Fathers in nice coats who looked even more tired. Kids working behind counters of the food places who looked like they hadn’t had the will to live for hours. The machines kept opening and closing. The people kept giving money and getting their change. And it all felt very unsettlingly to me.”
― Stephen Chbosky
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