Stephen Chbosky Quotes

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.

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

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.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

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.

Charlie, don’t you get it? I can’t feel that. It’s sweet and everything, but it’s like you’re not even there sometimes. 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.

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.

Everyone is special in their own way.

If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.

I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.

I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all become somebody’s mom or dad. But right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening. I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive. And you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song, and that drive with the people who you love most in this world. And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite.

We accept the love we think we deserve.

It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.