Stephen Chbosky
I spent all night working on it, and I hope Patrick likes it as much as I do. Especially the second side. I hope it's the kind of second side that he can listen to whenever he drives alone and feel like he belongs to something whenever he's sad. I hope it can be that for him.Collection: Night
I remembered this one time that I never told anybody about. The time we were walking. Just the three of us. I was in the middle. I don't remember where we were walking to or where we were walking from. I just remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhereCollection: Feelings
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.Collection: Believe
there was a time when these weren't memories.Collection: Memories
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 walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.Collection: Growing Up
He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.Collection: Quiet
Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.Collection: People
And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.Collection: Matter
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.Collection: Thinking
It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.Collection: Book
Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.Collection: Book
Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.Collection: Life
Dear friend, I feel great! I really mean it. I have to remember his for the next time I'm having a terrible week. Have you wer done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don't know why. I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday, so I should store up as many great details as I can, so during the next terrible week, I can remember those details and believe that I'll feel great again. It doesn't work a lot, but I think it's very important to try.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Book
He’s my whole world.” “Don’t ever say that about anyone again. Not even me.Collection: World
There are other people who have it a lot worseCollection: People
And I never felt that good in my life. But I also felt bad because I saw her naked without her permission.Collection: Saws
We accept the love we think we deserve.Collection: Love
Something really is wrong with me. And I don't know what it is.Collection: Romance Movie
I'm just thinking too fast-- much too fast.Collection: Thinking
I love my mom. And this time, I told her I loved her. And she told me she loved me, too. And things were okay for a little while.Collection: Mom
There are rules you follow here not because you want to, but because you have to.Collection: Want
The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. they had become storiesCollection: Stories
Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.Collection: Memories
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.Collection: Unique
He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.Collection: Would Be
What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?Collection: What If
The most beautiful surprise is that you have these moments where you connect with people on a deep level without saying a word. It's one of those wonderful things that you get what you give, and I'm grateful for it.Collection: Beautiful
Girls like guys to be a challenge. It gives them some mold to fit in how they act. Like a mom. What would a mom do if she couldn't fuss over you and make you clean your room? And what would you do without her fussing and making you do it? Everyone needs a mom. And a mom knowns this. And it gives her a sense of purpose. You get it?Collection: Girl
It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except 'be there.' I just want to make him stop hurting, but I can't. So I just follow him around whenever he wants to show me his world.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: People
When I was driving home, I just thought about the word 'special'. And I thought the last person who said that about me was my Aunt Helen. 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.Collection: Grateful
Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyoneCollection: Problem
I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. I know other people have it a lot worse. I do know that, but it's crashing in anyway, and I just can't stop thinking that the little kid eating french fries with his mom in the shopping mall is going to grow up and my sister.Collection: Mom
What's your favorite book? "The last one I read.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Night
I wonder what it will be like when I leave this place.Collection: Wonder
Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.Collection: Thinking
Why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't even really know me?Collection: Care
people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.Collection: People
but my dad said it was no excuse. "But I love him!" I had never seen my sister cry that much. "No, you don't." "I hate you!" "No, you don't." My dad can be very calm sometimes. "He's my whole world." "Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me." That was my mom.Collection: Mom
I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be the tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. I think that would be nice.Collection: Mom
When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there.Collection: Brother
Personally, I like to think my brother is having a college experience like they do in the movies. I don't mean the big fraternity party kind of movie. More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain. I think something like that would be very good for him, especially if the girl were unconventionally beautiful. They are the best kind of girls, I think. I personally find 'super models' strange. I don't know why this is.Collection: Beautiful
I wish I could stop being in love with Sam. I really do.Collection: Being In Love
It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. If I took it, I would know that the only reason it's beautiful is because of Sam.Collection: Beautiful
The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.Collection: Names