Top 400 Stephen Chbosky Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “To tell you the truth I love Sam. It’s not a movie kind of love either. I just look at her sometimes and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the whole world.”

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52. “The saddest people smile the brightest.”

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53. “I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn’t try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.”

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54. “As you see the opening get closer, you just can’t get fast enough. And finally, just when you think you’ll never get there, you see the opening right in front of you.”

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55. “I’m just thinking too fast – much too fast.”

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56. “I am really in love with Sam, and it hurts very much.”

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57. “There are other people who have it a lot worse.”

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58. “There are rules you follow here not because you want to, but because you have to.”

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59. “I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn’t try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.”

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60. “It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too.”

— Stephen Chbosky

61. “The inside jokes weren’t jokes anymore. they had become stories.”

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62. “I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what’s wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.”

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63. “It is important to say “sir” at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I’m telling you.”

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64. “Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they’re objective.”

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65. “If the advice is simply to respect yourself and follow the path that you want to follow, that would be the best advice I could ever pass on.”

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66. “I would die for you. But I won’t live for you.” 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.”

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67. “Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it’s no excuse.”

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68. “What about when someone doesn’t need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?”

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69. “Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”

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70. “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.”

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

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72. “I feel like a big faker because I’ve been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.”

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73. “It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.”

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74. “Maybe these are my glory days, and I’m not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.”

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75. “The fact that one of these ladies was my mom made me particularly sad because my mom is beautiful. And she’s always on a diet. Sometimes, my dad calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear him.”

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76. “I’m only being cute here. I don’t really mean it. I just wanted to make you smile.”

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77. “Despite everything my mom and doctor and dad have said to me about blame, I can’t stop thinking what I know. And I know that my aunt Helen would still be alive today if she just bought me one present like everybody else. She would be alive if I were born on a day that didn’t snow.”

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78. “I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive. And in this moment, I swear... we are infinite.”

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79. “I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren’t memories.”

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80. “Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I’ve been watching cable television and eating jello.”

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81. “I found, through the process of doing ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.”

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82. “It’s just that I don’t want to be somebody’s crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don’t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.”

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83. “And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn’t.”

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84. “I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.”

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85. “Music is a vital part of my life, and it has been since I was a kid. It helped me find my identity as a person, it helped me find my identity as an artist, and it helped me get in touch with emotions that I didn’t know I had.”

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86. “More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain.”

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87. “I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay?”

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88. “Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.”

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89. “And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.”

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90. “Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don’t decorate my locker,...”

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91. “And later that night to be with my family at dinnertime and have things just be like they always were. That was the amazing part. Things just keep going. We didn’t talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough.”

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92. “I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.”

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93. “I don’t think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it’s nice. It really is.”

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

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95. “Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it’s by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.”

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96. “Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does.”

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97. “I guess I’m pretty emotional.”

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98. “I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.”

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99. “It’s strange the times people choose to be generous.”

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100. “As we all know, when you’re an athlete things are a little bit easier for you. It didn’t mean that what was going on inside my heart wasn’t a bit of a thunderstorm, but outwardly I got along ok. I was really shy in seventh grade.”

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