"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… - Stephen Chbosky

Every person has to live his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people.

As I was walking up the stairs to dad's old room, and I was looking at the photographs, I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories. That someone actually took the photograph, and the people in the photograph had just eaten lunch or something.

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.

We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough