Top 400 Stephen Chbosky Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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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352. “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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353. “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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354. “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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355. “I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite.”

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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. “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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358. “It was a stolen type of kiss.”

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359. “Take the chance and live. Whatever strategy you choose, YOU WIN.”

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360. “She would be alive if I were born on a day that didn’t snow. I would do anything to make this go away. I miss her terribly. I have to stop writing now because I am too sad.”

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361. “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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362. “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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363. “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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364. “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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365. “The power of God was not omniscience. The power of God was not omnipotence. The power of God was love.”

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

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

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

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

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

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374. “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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375. “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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376. “I don’t know why I wrote a lot of this down for you to read.”

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377. “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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378. “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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379. “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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380. “Good guys win wars.”

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381. “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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382. “Do you always thinks this much, Charlie.”

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

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

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387. “Patrick made jokes to keep everyone honest.”

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388. “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.”

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389. “And he doesn’t play baseball anymore. He doesn’t like to be even reminded unless he tells the stories. I just wanted to know what to buy my dad because I love him. And I don’t know him. And he doesn’t like to talk about things like that.”

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390. “And we kept dancing. It was the only time all day that I really wanted the clock to stop. And just be there for a long time.”

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

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392. “I just wanted to know what to buy my dad because I love him. And I don’t know him.”

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393. “But you have to hear the end of the story – you have to know the wolf doesn’t win.”

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394. “A lot of it is good, but a lot of it is bad. Again, I don’t know why this always happens.”

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395. “It’s not a movie kind of love either.”

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396. “My dad said I couldn’t drive until the weather cleared up, and it finally did a little bit yesterday. I made a mix tape for the occasion. It is called “The First Time I Drove.” Maybe I’m being too sentimental, but I like to think that when I’m old, I will be able to look at all these tapes and remember those drives.”

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

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

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

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