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Stephen Chbosky Quotes

Total quotes: 35
“I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Hardships, Life Quotes
“If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: caring, Happiness, selflessness
“And it was the kind of kiss that I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Love, romance, kiss, Love & Happiness, Love & Contentment
“Old pictures look really rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem happier than you are.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: photographs, Smile, Happiness
“I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: The Perks Of Being A Wildflower
“And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Happiness, Curiosity, Hope, Empathy, Compassion
“You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Perspective, Silence, Thoughts
““Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.””
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Life, Change, Growing Up
“I'm so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. I really do. I hope you do, too. Okay, then. Goodbye.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Love, breakup, Heartbreak, Farewell, goodbye, separation, farewell letter
“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
— Stephen Chbosky, Jack Thorne, Steve Conrad, R.J. Palacio, Wonder
Tagged: Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Movie Quotes
“Belle: [to a hairbrush] What's your name?

Cogsworth: That is a hairbrush.”
— Belle, Beauty and the Beast
Tagged: Anthropomorphism
“[singing] I want adventure in the great wide somewhere, I want it more than I can tell...And for once it might be grand to have someone understand, I want so much more than they've got planned!”
— Belle, Beauty and the Beast
Tagged: Adventure
“...please believe that things are good with me, and even when they’re not, they will be soon enough. And I will always believe the same about you.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Optimism, Holding On, believing, Life, Encouragement
“Prince: [dancing with her] What? What is it?

Belle: [smiles] How would you feel about growing a beard? [He smirks and growls. They laugh]”
— Belle, Beauty and the Beast
Tagged: beard
“And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: The Perks Of Being A Wildflower
““There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.””
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“I just don’t want you to worry about me, or think that you’ve met me, or waste your time anymore.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Love, romance, Break Up, break up letter
“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Sleeping, Depression, Nothingness
“Why do I, and everyone I love, pick people who treat us like we’re nothing?”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Love, disrespect, Nothing, H4D-9
“As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Knowledge, Ignorance, concealed reason, lied to
“Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: weird loving friendship, Knowing, Understanding, getting it, Friends
“I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Don't Give Up, The Perks Of Being Of Wallflower, Quotes, Special, Suicide Awareness
“I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: The Perks Of Being A Wildflower
“It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Fall Out Of Love, Change, Endings, Life
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Life And Death, Suicide Awareness, Try Again
“I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: good listener, Sex, H4D-23
“Learning who you are is what you're here to do.”
— Stephen Chbosky, Jack Thorne, Steve Conrad, R.J. Palacio, Wonder
Tagged: Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Movie Quotes
“[singing in his workshop] How does a moment last forever? How can a story never die? / It is love we must hold on to, never easy, but we try / Sometimes our happiness is captured, somehow a time and place stand still, / Love lives on inside our hearts, and always will.”
— Maurice, Beauty and the Beast
Tagged: Love, Happiness
“And in that moment I swear we were infinite.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Best Literary Quotes, Literature, Lit quotes
“It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: The Perks Of Being A Wildflower
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“The master's not as terrible as he appears!”
— Mrs. Potts, Beauty and the Beast
Tagged: Looks Can Be Deceiving, Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
— Stephen Chbosky, I Had a Nice Time And Other Lies...: How to find love & sh*t like that
Tagged: Dating Advice, Guy Advice, Relationship Advice
“[sings] I was the one who had it all, I was the master of my fate / I never needed anybody in my life, I learned the truth too late / I'll never shake away the pain, I close my eyes but she's still there / I let her steal into my melancholy heart, it's more than I can bear / Now I know she'll never leave me, even as she runs away / She will still torment me, calm me, hurt me, move me, come what may / Wasting in my lonely tower, waiting by an open door / I'll fool myself, she'll walk right in and be with me for evermore... / I rage against the trials of love, I curse the fading of the light / Though she's already flown so far beyond my reach, she's never out of sight / Now I know she'll never leave me, even as she fades from view / She will still inspire me, be a part of everything I do / Wasting in my lonely tower, waiting by an open door / I'll fool myself, she'll walk right in, and as the long long nights begin, I'll think of all that might have been / Waiting here for evermore...”
— Beast, Beauty and the Beast
Tagged: Songs, master of fate, evermore, Rage, Love, inspiration
“Right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening. I am here, and I am looking at her. And she is so beautiful. I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive. And you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song, and that drive with the people who you love most in this world. And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: The Perks Of Being A Wildflower
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