609 Quotes by Stephen Chbosky

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

Friends leave and life doesn’t stop for anybody.

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.

I read an article about Nirvana on one visit, and it didn’t have any references to honey mustard dressing or lettuce. They kept talking about the singer’s stomach problems all the time, though. It was weird.

Everything can’t be low self-esteem, can it?

Life doesn’t stop for anybody.

I’m just thinking too fast – much too fast.

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.

If you’re reading these words, you won today. You are here. You are alive. You have options. You can wait out a bad situation. Move on, fight back, get out, break up, call, ask her or him out, write that book, write that song, listen to the music, take the drive, take the chance, and live. Whatever strategy you choose, you win.