Stephen Chbosky
So, I heard you're this ninja or something.Collection: Ninja
I look at people holdings hands in the hallways, and I try to think how it all works. At the school dances, I sit in the background, and I tap my toe, and I wonder how many couples will dance to ‘their song.’ In the hallways, I see the girls wearing the guys’ jackets, and I think about the idea of property. And I wonder if anyone is really happy.Collection: Girl
Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.Collection: Balls
I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.Collection: Growing Up
And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there would always be someone to blame.Collection: People
Welcome to the island of misfit toys.Collection: Islands
My sister was the one who told me where babies come from. My sister was also the one who laughed when I immediately asked her where babies go to.Collection: Baby
Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?Collection: Crazy
Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.Collection: Long
I would die for you. But I won't live for you.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Wall
"I hate you." My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me.She really did. "I love you," was all I could say in return. "You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." "I'm trying not to be.” Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.Collection: Dad
I am really in love with Sam, and it hurts very much.Collection: Hurt
I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.Collection: Writing
I think it was the first time in my life I ever felt like I looked “good”. Do you know what I mean? That nice feeling when you look in the mirror, and your hair’s right for the first time in your life? I don’t think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it’s nice. It really is.Collection: Nice
I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn’t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.Collection: Beautiful
And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.Collection: Eye
So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.Collection: Using Words
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.Collection: Thinking
It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.Collection: Crush
I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.Collection: Party
It's strange the times people choose to be generous.Collection: People
Try to be a filter, not a sponge.Collection: Trying
That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this story - to write the novel and then direct the movie.Collection: Dream
It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.Collection: Normal
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.Collection: Advice
The perfect song on the perfect drive to make you feel infinite.Collection: Song
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 thing 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?Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Honesty
I’m so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. I really do. I hope you do, too. Okay, then. Goodbye.Collection: Goodbye
It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.Collection: Book
The thing is some girls think they can actually change guysCollection: Girl
Girls are weird, and I don't mean that offensively. I just can't put it any other way.Collection: Girl
I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees her is better than she actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera.Collection: Girl
There were other stories and other names. Second Base Stace, who had breasts in fourth grade and let some of the boys feel them. Vincent, who took acid and tried to flush a sofa down the toilet. Sheila, who allegedly masturbated with a hot dog and had to go to the emergency room. The list went on and on.Collection: Dog
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.Collection: Sleep
You take girls, for example. They're copying their moms and magazines and everything to know how to act around guys. I mean it's not like in movies where girls like assholes or anything like that. It's not that easy. They just like somebody that can give them purpose.Collection: Girl
Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing"; - "We accept the love we think we deserve.Collection: Thinking
It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.Collection: Kissing
Everyone is special in their own way.Collection: Special
It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real. Well, sometimes I can do that, but I don't need an hour in front of a mirror. It just happens very fast, and things start to slip away. And I just open my eyes, and I see nothing. And then I start to breathe really hard trying to see something, but I can't. It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it scares me.Collection: Real
Incidentally, I only have one cavity, and as much as my dentist asks me to, I just can't bring myself to floss.Collection: Dentist
Do you always think this much? It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.Collection: Thinking
on that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. i just typed. "i will.Collection: Writing
The thing is, some girls think they can actually change guys. And what’s funny is that if they actually did change them, they’d get bored. They’d have no challenge left. You just have to give girls some time to think of a new way of doing things, that’s all. Some of them will figure it out here. Some later. Some never. I wouldn’t worry about it too much.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Get Better
It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too.Collection: Girl
The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.Collection: Silence
I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again.Collection: Thinking