Top 400 Stephen Chbosky Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “And that was that. Bill didn’t try to make sure that I would see him next year if I needed anything. He didn’t ask me why I was crying. He just let me hear what he had to say in my own way and let things be. That was probably the best part.”

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352. “The power of God was not omniscience. The power of God was not omnipotence. The power of God was love.”

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353. “I love my mom so much. I don’t care if that’s corny to say. 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.”

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354. “The trance happens when you don’t focus on anything.”

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355. “If you fail at your job, you do not blame some outside force. You look right in the mirror and take responsibility. That was the problem with the world. No one took responsibility.”

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356. “The shadows were not terrifying. They were the proof that light exists. The fire and brimstone were all a mirage. The clouds nothing but steam inside a bathroom. All he needed to do was wipe away the mirror. He didn’t need a key. He was the key.”

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357. “I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite.”

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358. “And then Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun. Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be.”

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359. “I just wanted someone to tell me the truth.”

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360. “I hope it’s the kind of second side that he can listen to whenever he drives alone and feel like he belongs to something whenever he’s sad.”

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361. “I also thought that if anybody saw me talking out loud when I was alone in the car, their looks might convince me that the something that’s wrong with me might be even worse than I thought.”

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362. “Also, when I write letters, I spend the next two days thinking about what I figured out in my letters.”

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363. “Mary Katherine had no way of understanding that her mother was not upset at her seventeen-year-old daughter because she was too relieved that the seventeen-week-old daughter that she remembered nursing hadn’t died in that car accident last night. She had no way of knowing that no matter how big children feel, they will always look smaller to their parents.”

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364. “And what my brother’s face will look like on a football card, or what it will look like if it is never on a football card.”

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365. “He said that it was a very bad accident, and my Aunt Helen was definitely killed instantly. In other words, there was no pain. There was no pain anymore.”

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366. “Things like waking around the neighbourhood and looking at the houses and the lawns and the colourful trees and having that be enough.”

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367. “I have spent the whole vacation reading Hamlet. Bill was right. It was much easier to think of the kid in the play like the other characters I’ve read about so far. It has also helped me while I’m trying to figure out what’s wrong with me. It didn’t give me any answers necessarily, but it was helpful to know that someone else has been through it.”

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368. “Despite everything my mom and doctor and dad have said to me about blame, I can’t stop thinking what I know.”

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369. “Du coup, je me dis que le zen, c’est un jour comme aujourd’hui, quand on fait partie de l’air et qu’on se rappelle des trucs.”

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370. “It was a stolen type of kiss.”

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371. “For the rest of the school year, the teachers treated me different and gave me better grades even though I didn’t get any smarter.”

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372. “To Charlie” and the whole group said, “to Charlie.” I didn’t know why they did that, but it was very special to me that they did. Especially Sam. Especially her.”

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373. “Hundreds of babies who were born to hundreds of parents. Every one of them the hero of their own life.”

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374. “It was the way she said it that started me feeling.”

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375. “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.”

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376. “This is a worse that feels too big.”

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377. “I have taken all my finals for the semester, and it has been very busy, and I would have told you all about it, but it just doesn’t seem as interesting as these other things that have to do with holidays.”

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378. “The teacher has assigned us a few chapters at a time, but I do not like to read books like.”

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379. “I always wanted to be on a sports team like that. I’m not sure why, but I always thought it would be fun to have “glory days”.”

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380. “I read the book again that night because I knew that if I didn’t, I would probably start crying again. The panicky type, I mean. I read until I was completely exhausted and had to go to sleep. In the morning, I finished the book and then started immediately reading it again. Anything to not feel like crying. Because I made the promise to Aunt Helen. And because I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again.”

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381. “We just want her to know that we miss her, and we think of her, and she was special.”

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382. “Selbst Monster waren liebenswert, wenn sie klein waren.”

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383. “The kind of green that doesn’t make a big deal about itself.”

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384. “I laid down on his old bed, and I looked through the window at this tree that was probably a lot shorter when my dad looked at it. And I could feel what he felt on the night when he realized that if he didn’t leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs. At least that’s how he’s put it.”

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385. “I stared at my reflection and the trees behind it for a long time. Not thinking anything. Not feeling anything. Not hearing the record. For hours.”

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386. “Es ahora mi libro favorito de todos los tiempos, aunque siempre pienso eso hasta que leo otro libro.”

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387. “Kate Reese shivered when she realized the sad truth: Even monsters are adorable when they are little.”

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388. “I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”

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389. “I figured that I should just do what I wanted to do. Not think about it. Not say it out loud.”

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390. “I realized that it happened every Saturday when we would watch television.”

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391. “And I really was sorry. And I know that she believed me. But when that didn’t make any difference, and there was nothing but a bad silence on the phone, I really knew it was too late.”

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392. “I don’t know why I wrote a lot of this down for you to read.”

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393. “I watched the hockey game with him for a while, but I couldn’t stop asking him questions about which countries the players are from, and he was “resting his eyes,” which means he was sleeping but didn’t want me to change the channel.”

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394. “And when he was lying in the ground next to her, her photographs would be thrown in the trash because her face wouldn’t mean anything to anyone else. He was the last person alive who knew her and loved her.”

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395. “Good guys win wars.”

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396. “And I saw Patrick and Alice not even care that they weren’t kissing anybody because they were too excited talking about their futures.”

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397. “Do you always thinks this much, Charlie.”

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398. “She wanted her son to be smart enough to get out of this nightmare, but not smart enough to know that he was actually inside one.”

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399. “It started yesterday at home. I don’t like my birthday. I don’t like it at all.”

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400. “I even got out my old sled and my old scarf. There is something cozy about that for me.”

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