Quotes by Stephen Chbosky

“I just reminded myself that she didn't say it mean. She wasn't making fun of me. She wasn't comparing. Or criticizing.”

“I just kind of put my feelings away somewhere after that.”

“And things were back to normal except we were just friends.”

“Things change and friends leave and life doesn't stop for anybody”

“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.”

“I don't remember where we were walking to or where we were walking from. I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewh...”

“On that piece of white paper, Sam wrote, "Write about me sometime." And I typed back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. I just typed. "I will."And I felt good that those were the first tw...”

“It's nice to have things to look forward to.”

“I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things.”

“she hated everything her parents loved”

“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. So, I was ...”

“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...”

“I was just trying to be a friend,' I said. 'But you werent, Charlie. At those times, you werent being his friend at all. Because you werent honest with him.”

“So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is....”

“My sister said Mary Elizabeth is suffering from low self-esteem, but I told her that she said the same thing about Sam back in November when she started dating Craig, and Sam is completely differen...”

“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 happe...”

“It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back”

“She even told me how to treat a girl on a date, which was very interesting. She said that with a girl like Mary Elizabeth, you shouldn't tell her she looks pretty. You should tell her how nice her ...”

“Things get worse before they get better, but this is a worse that feels too big.”

“It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.”