609 Quotes by Stephen Chbosky

We Are All Infinite.

He was a real man.

My sister was counting on me, and this was the first time anyone ever counted on me for anything.

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. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me. And if they do something I don’t like, I’ll tell them.

It’s kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real.

I found, through the process of doing ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.

Why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn’t even really know me?

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them.

Some people’s fake is more honest than other people’s real.