Stephen Chbosky

“I guess she didn't know how much she talked or how much I listened.”

“This is not a time for heroes because nobody will let that happen”

“El problema es que todo el mundo siempre compara a todos con todos y que eso le quita mérito a la gente”

“Be skeptical about this one. It's a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.”

“Time goes. Friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.”

“And I could feel what he felt on the night when he realize that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.”

“We can't choose where we come from,but we can choose where we go from there.”

“Si le gusto a alguien,quiero que sea mi verdadero yo el que le guste,no lo que piense que soy”

“Creo que somos quienes somos por muchas razones. Y probablemente nunca las conoceremos a todas. Pero aunque así no tenemos el poder de elegir de dónde venimos, aún podemos elegir a dónde vamos desde allí. Aún podemos hacer cosas. Y podemos tratar de sentirnos bien por ellas.”

“I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday.”

“In other words, there was no pain. There was no pain anymore.”

“I'm really in love with Sam, and it hurts very much.”

“Es mucho más fácil no saber las cosas algunas veces. Las cosas cambian. Los amigos se van. Y la vida no se detiene por nadie. Quería reírme. O quizás enojarme. O quizás sentir indiferencia por lo extraño que todos eran, especialmente yo. Creo que la idea es que cada persona tiene que vivir su propia vida y después decidir compartirla con otras personas. No puedes sentarte ahí y poner la vida de todos por encima de la tuya y creer que eso cuenta como amor. No puedes. Tienes que hacer cosas. Voy a hacer lo que quiera hacer. Voy a ser quien realmente soy. Y voy a saber quién es ese. Y todos podríamos sentarnos y preguntarnos y sentirnos mal unos por otros y culpar a muchas personas por lo que hicieron o por lo que no hicieron o por lo que no sabían. No lo sé. Supongo que siempre hay alguien a quien culpar. Es diferente. Quizás es bueno poner las cosas en perspectiva, pero algunas veces, creo que la única perspectiva es realmente estar ahí. Porque está bien sentir. Yo estaba realmente allí. Y eso era suficiente para hacerme sentir infinito. Me siento infinito.”

“I was looking at this tree but it was a dragon and then a tree,”

“I drove home listening to some of the songs we listened to those times when we were infinite.”

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

“My mom was so upset that she took me shopping for new clothes.”

“Is that you, Charlie?" "Sam's making me a milkshake.”

“One boy has it particularly hard. I won't tell you his name. But I will tell you all about him. He has very nice brown hair, and he wears it long with a ponytail. I think he will regret this when he looks back on his life.”

“Charlie, aceptamos el amor que pensamos que nos merecemos.”

“Creo que es bueno para las estrellas hacer entrevistas para hacernos pensar que son como nosotros, pero si te digo la verdad, tengo la sensación de que todo es una gran mentira.”

“Charlie ... have you ever kissed a girl?" I shook my head no. It was so quiet. "Not even when you were little?" I shook my head no again. And she looked very sad. She told me about the first time she was kissed. She told me that it was with one of her dad's friends. She was seven. And she told nobody about it except for Mary Elizabeth and then Patrick a year ago. And she started to cry. And she said something that I won't forget. Ever. "I know that you know that I like Craig. And I know that I told you not to think of me that way. And I know that we can't be together like that. But I want to forget all those things for a minute. Okay?" "Okay." "I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you. Okay?" "Okay." She was crying harder now. And I was, too, because when I hear something like that I just can't help it. "I just want to make sure of that. Okay?" "Okay." And she kissed me. It was the kind of kiss that I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.”

“I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.”

“Patrick used to be popular, until Sam bought him some good music.”

“Then the movie started. It was in a foreign language and had subtitles, which was fun because I had never read a movie before.”

“That's when I started thinking about my sister.I thought about the time when she and her friends painted my fingernails, and how that was okay because my brother wasn't there. And the time she let me use her dolls to make up plays or let me watch whatever I wanted to watch on TV. And when she started becoming a "young lady," and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was fat. And how she really wasn't fat. And how she was actually very pretty. And how different her face looked when she realized boys thought she was pretty. And how different her face looked the first time she really like a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy. And then I wondered how her face would look when she came out from behind those doors.”

“My dad kept giving me "love pats." Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are administered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.”

“But the thing is that I can hear Sam and Craig having sex, and for the first time in my life, I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.”

“no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell”

“After I finished, I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and I smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.”

“So, I said I thought the magazine was trying to make him a hero, but then later somebody might dig up something to make him seem like less than a person. And I didn't know why because to me he is just a guy who writes songs that a lot of people like, and I thought that was enough for everyone involved.”

“My grandma is very old, and she doesn't remember things a lot, but she bakes the most delicious cookies. When I was very little, we had my mom's mom, who always had candy, and my dad's mom,who always had cookies. My mom told me that when I was little, I called them "Candy Grandma" and "Cookies Grandma." I also called pizza crust "pizza bones." I don't know why I'm telling you this.”

“Then, Patrick pointed at me, and said something to Bob. "He's something, isn't he?" Bob nodded his head. Patrick then said something I don't think I'll ever forget."Hes a wallflower."And Bob really nodded his head. And the whole room nodded their head. And I started to feel nervous in the Bob way, but Patrick didn't let me get too nervous. He sat down next to me. "You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”

“The one thing I did ask my dad was about the boys problems at home. Whether or not he thought the parents hit their son. He told me to mind my own business. Because he didn't know and would never ask and didn't think it mattered."Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, its no excuse.”

“I told him about the boy [...] hitting my sister [...] He got this very serious look on his face after I told him, and he said something to me I don't think I will forget [...] ever."Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve.”

“I think its bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera.”

“I guess that's natural, but I'm not sure why.”

“Inside the card, I told Sam that the present I gave her was given to me by my Aunt Helen. It was an old 45 record that had the Beatles' song "Something." I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided them that when I met someone I thought was a 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 giving it to Sam.”

“You know what they say, if you make atleast one friend on your first day you're doing okay”

“I just listened to the music, and breathed in the day, and remembered things. Things like walking around the neighborhood and looking at the houses and the lawns and the colorful trees and having that be enough.”

“Please believe that things are going good with me. Even if they're not they will be soon enough.”

“I get the feeling that it's all a big lie. The problem is I don't know who's lying.”

“and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.”

“There's something about that tunnel that leads to downtown. It's glorious at night. Just glorious. You start on one side of the mountain, and it's dark, and the radio is loud. As you enter the tunnel, the wind gets sucked away, and you squint from the lights overhead. When you adjust to the lights, you can see the other side in the distance just as the sound of the radio fades to nothing because the waves just can't reach. Then, you're in the middle of the tunnel, and everything becomes a calm dream. As you see the opening get closer, you just can't get there fast enough. And finally, just when you think you'll never get there, you see the opening right in front of you. And the radio comes back even louder than you remember it. And the wind is waiting. And you fly out of the tunnel onto the bridge. And there it is. The city. A million lights and buildings and everything seems as exciting as the first time you saw it. It really is a grand entrance.”

“Something like that. 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.”

“I guess Zen is a day like this when you are part of the air and remember things”

“I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.”

“Di solto torno a casa a piedi da scuola, perché così ho la sensazione di essermela guadagnata. Mi spiego: voglio poter raccontare ai miei bambini che andavo a scuola come facevano i miei nonnni «ai loro tempi».”

“Some people really do have it a lot worse than I do. They really do.”

“She was being like those bratty girls in movies from the 1980s, and my mom kept saying "Young Lady" after every sentence.”