609 Quotes by Stephen Chbosky

So what’s the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don’t understand that.

It’s okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.

Sam has brown hair and very, very pretty green eyes. The kind of green that doesn’t make a big deal about itself.

When I was done reading the poem, everyone was quiet. A very sad quiet. But the amazing thing was that it wasn’t a bad sad at all. It was just something that made everyone look around at each other and know that they were there.

Maybe it’s good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Like Sam said. Because it’s okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.

I thought about him going into my mom’s when she was little and hitting my mom and holding up her report card and saying that her bad grades would never happen again. And I think now that maybe he meant my older brother. Or my sister. Or me. That he would make sure that he was the last one to work in a mill.

And I could hear all these songs on the radio, but the radio wasn’t on.

The fights are always the same.

It’s like looking at all the students and wondering who’s had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that.