Stephen Chbosky Quotes

The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

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.

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.

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.

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

Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.

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.

Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

When to stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

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

The movie itself was very interesting, but I didn't think it was very good because I didn't really feel different when it was over.