609 Quotes by Stephen Chbosky

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. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me.

I guess I could tell people about Punk Rocky and walking home from school and things like that. Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not even realizing it because they don't involve a ball.

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.

I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.

I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.

Something really is wrong with me. And I don't know what it is.

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.

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

Maybe he didn’t really encourage me to do things, but he didn’t prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn’t do things because I didn’t want him to think different about me. But the thing is, I wasn’t being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn’t really even know me?