609 Quotes by Stephen Chbosky

It’s just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can’t do anything except ‘be there.’ I just want to make him stop hurting, but I can’t. So I just follow him around whenever he wants to show me his world.

And I know things have to get worse before they get better.

Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don’t decorate my locker,...

For me personally, as much as I don’t understand my mom and dad and as much as I feel sorry for them sometimes, I can’t help but love them very much.

I wonder if that’s a small price to pay for being a legend.

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. Well, sometimes I can do that, but I don’t need an hour in front of a mirror. It just happens very fast, and things start to slip away. And I just open my eyes, and I see nothing. And then I start to breathe really hard trying to see something, but I can’t. It doesn’t happen all the time, but when it does, it scares me.

Do you ever miss him?

I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can’t.

Be skeptical about this one. It’s a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.