Top 400 Stephen Chbosky Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Never mistake being nice for being weak.”

— Stephen Chbosky

252. “I guess when you see somebody in the hallway or on the field or something, it’s nice to know that they are a real person.”

— Stephen Chbosky

253. “I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. Little kids who looked tired. Fathers in nice coats who looked even more tired. Kids working behind counters of the food places who looked like they hadn’t had the will to live for hours. The machines kept opening and closing. The people kept giving money and getting their change. And it all felt very unsettlingly to me.”

— Stephen Chbosky

254. “Quindi immagino che siano tanti i fattori che ci fanno essere come siamo. Molti, forse, non li conosceremo mai. Ma, anche se non possiamo essere noi a decidere da dove veniamo, possiamo scegliere la nostra meta. Ci sono altre cose che possiamo fare. Cercando di sentirci a posto.”

— Stephen Chbosky

255. “Why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn’t even really know me?”

— Stephen Chbosky

256. “Friends leave and life doesn’t stop for anybody.”

— Stephen Chbosky

257. “That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this story – to write the novel and then direct the movie.”

— Stephen Chbosky

258. “Mr. Carlo told me to stop asking ‘why?’ all the time and just follow the formulas. So, I did. Now, I get perfect scores on all my tests. I just wish I knew what the formulas did. I honestly have no idea.”

— Stephen Chbosky

259. “I really do love my sister. Especially when she’s nice.”

— Stephen Chbosky

260. “I was hoping that the kid who told the truth could become a friend of mine, but I think he was just being a good guy by telling.”

— Stephen Chbosky

261. “I knew it wasn’t fair, though, to ruin her time just because I miss everybody, so I just said good night and left.”

— Stephen Chbosky

262. “And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives.”

— Stephen Chbosky

263. “Charlie?” “Uh-huh?” “Do you like me?” “Uh-huh.” “You know what I mean?” “Uh-huh.” “Are you nervous?” “Uh-huh.” “Don’t be nervous.” “Okay.”

— Stephen Chbosky

264. “I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of them kept touching his beard.”

— Stephen Chbosky

265. “The candle flickered in the wind of the hurricane... Then, the light of one hundred billion stars burned out.”

— Stephen Chbosky

266. “I think on my next birthday, I’m going to buy her a present. I think that should be the tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. I think that would be nice.”

— Stephen Chbosky

267. “If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we’ll see. I’m taking it day by day.”

— Stephen Chbosky

268. “I wonder what my speech would be.”

— Stephen Chbosky

269. “Please don’t try to figure out who she is because then you might figure.”

— Stephen Chbosky

270. “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. And disappear. I know that’s wrong because it’s my responsibility, and I know that things get worse before they get better because that’s what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.”

— Stephen Chbosky

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

— Stephen Chbosky

272. “You have to live your life before you get to live your Heaven.”

— Stephen Chbosky

273. “I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.”

— Stephen Chbosky

274. “The radio comes back even louder than you remember it.”

— Stephen Chbosky

275. “I look at people holdings hands in the hallways, and I try to think how it all works. At the school dances, I sit in the background, and I tap my toe, and I wonder how many couples will dance to ‘their song.’ In the hallways, I see the girls wearing the guys’ jackets, and I think about the idea of property. And I wonder if anyone is really happy.”

— Stephen Chbosky

276. “Even monsters are adorable when they’re little.”

— Stephen Chbosky

277. “Do you ever miss him?”

— Stephen Chbosky

278. “Es que a veces la gente utiliza el pensamiento para no implicarse en la vida.”

— Stephen Chbosky

279. “My dad and my brother and my cousins carry him out to the car of the person who is least angry at him.”

— Stephen Chbosky

280. “It was a movie smile in slow motion, and then everything was okay.”

— Stephen Chbosky

281. “The thing is, some girls think they can actually change guys. And what’s funny is that if they actually did change them, they’d get bored. They’d have no challenge left. You just have to give girls some time to think of a new way of doing things, that’s all. Some of them will figure it out here. Some later. Some never. I wouldn’t worry about it too much.”

— Stephen Chbosky

282. “I think you of all people are alive and appreciates what that means.”

— Stephen Chbosky

283. “Sometimes, I look at my parents now and wonder what happened to make them the way they are.”

— Stephen Chbosky

284. “I was looking at the old photographs, I started thinking that there was a time when these weren’t memories. That someone actually took that photograph, and the people in the photograph had just eaten lunch or something.”

— Stephen Chbosky

285. “I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn’t try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist... So this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”

— Stephen Chbosky

286. “And I just thought how great it was to have friends and a family.”

— Stephen Chbosky

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

— Stephen Chbosky

288. “Patrick said that the problem was that since everything has happened already, it makes it hard to break new ground.”

— Stephen Chbosky

289. “And you know that if you looked at these facts when you are happy, you would feel great because you are describing “unity”.”

— Stephen Chbosky

290. “Fear is not fear. It is excitement afraid of its own light.”

— Stephen Chbosky

291. “I don’t know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.”

— Stephen Chbosky

292. “It’s getting that bad again.”

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293. “Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can’t call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That’s where you pay all your dues.”

— Stephen Chbosky

294. “He’s a wallflower.”

— Stephen Chbosky

295. “Jesus, I am a sinner. I am vain. I am narcissistic. And my biggest sin was that I have been so afraid of You that I never really loved You until this moment. But I’m not afraid anymore because heaven and hell are not destinations. They are decisions.”

— Stephen Chbosky

296. “As long as she had that light, there would always be a chance.”

— Stephen Chbosky

297. “I am trying to participate.”

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298. “I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning. If this gets any worse, I might have to go back to the doctor. It’s getting that bad again.”

— Stephen Chbosky

299. “The only perspective is to really be there.”

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300. “He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying.”

— Stephen Chbosky