609 Quotes by Stephen Chbosky

To tell you the truth, I’ve just been avoiding everything.

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.

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.

Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it’s no excuse.

You know I blamed Craig for not letting me do things? You know how stupid I feel about that now? 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?

When to stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did.

You can’t just sit there and put everyone’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can’t. You have to do things.

The inside jokes weren’t jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

They just knew. And I think that’s all you can ever ask from a friend.