Stephen Chbosky Quotes - Page 7

Regardless, I decided to never take LSD again.

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

What's your favorite book? "The last one I read.

I sat down and tried to write a story. "Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out of them with delight." That was the first sentence. The problem was that I just couldn't think of the next one. After cleaning my room three times, I decided to leave Ian alone for a while because I was starting to get mad at him.

So, I looked up, and we were in this giant dome like a glass snowball, and Mark said that the amazing white stars were really only holes in the black glass of the dome, and when you went to heaven, the glass broke away, and there was nothing but a whole sheet of star white, which is brighter than anything but doesn't hurt your eyes. It was vast and open and thinly quiet, and I felt so small.

And later that night to be with my family at dinnertime and have things just be like they always were. That was the amazing part. Things just keep going. We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough.

Do you enjoy holidays with your family? I don't mean your mom and dad family, but your uncle and aunt and cousin family? Personally, I do. There are several reasons for this. First, I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other. Second, the fights are always the same.

Sam has brown hair and very, very pretty green eyes. The kind of green that doesn't make a big deal about itself.

Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don't sell it, and you do it yourself, and you wait until the screenplay is ready, you don't have to worry about that.

I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.

Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.

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.

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

When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there.

And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.

I would die for you. But I won't live for you.

I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.

Harold and Maude' was a seminal movie for me because it's not only a beautiful love story, but it's also about the moment when misfits find each other.

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

When you think back to your first kiss, your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and we remember it with style. We remember it as idealistically as you can think.

Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.

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

Welcome to the island of misfit toys.

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

He's a wallflower." And Bob nodded his head. And the whole room nodded their head. And i started to feel nervous in the Bob way, but Patrick didn't let me get too nervous. He sat down next to me. "You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.