609 Quotes by Stephen Chbosky

I just think it’s bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees her is better than she actually is. And I think it’s bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera.

Standing to leave, he looked at her one last time, hating her and loving her just the same. She was yet another thing tying him to the city, his duty to her like a straitjacket holding him against his will. A locked box he couldn’t find a way out of.

I don’t know if it’s better to have your kids be happy and not go to college. I don’t know if it’s better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do. I just don’t know.

Maybe these are my glory days, and I’m not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.

It’s strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

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

Everyone gets an ending. Whether or not it’s happy is up to them.

I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren’t memories.

So, I heard you’re this ninja or something.