Stephen Chbosky Quotes - Page 4

I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.

Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone

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.

I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.

Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.

It's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.

It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.

I really do love my sister. Especially when she's nice.

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.

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.

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.

Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective.

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.

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.

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

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

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.

It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

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

As people get older, we all know, you get married and you have a child and that becomes your family, but when you're 16 years old, especially, your family is your friends.

there is this one photograph... that is just beautiful. it would be impossible to describe how beautiful it is, but i’ll try. if you listen to the song “asleep,” and you think about those pretty weather days that make you remember things, and you think about the prettiest eyes you’ve known, and you cry and the person holds you back, then i think you will see the photograph.

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

I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone. And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being "passive aggressive.

I'm only being cute here. I don't really mean it. I just wanted to make you smile.

Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I’ve been watching cable television and eating jello.