609 Quotes by Stephen Chbosky

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 don’t know what’s wrong with me. It’s like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.

Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone.

Mr. Carlo told me to stop asking ‘why?’ all the time and just follow the formulas. So, I did. Now, I get perfect scores on all my tests. I just wish I knew what the formulas did. I honestly have no idea.

I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn’t.

It’s just that I don’t want to be somebody’s crush. 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.

Sometimes, I look at my parents now and wonder what happened to make them the way they are.

I don’t even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.