Stephen Chbosky Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.”
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“The most beautiful surprise is that you have these moments where you connect with people on a deep level without saying a word. It's one of those wonderful things that you get what you give, and I'm grateful for it.”
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“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
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“Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all your dues.”
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“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
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“If the advice is simply to respect yourself and follow the path that you want to follow, that would be the best advice I could ever pass on.”
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“He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”
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“You get the right collection of people together and you get the atmosphere together that it is very free where there is no judgment. If you create an atmosphere that is very open you steer the ship.”
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“I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.”
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“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.”
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“And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.”
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“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. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.”
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“I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is.”
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“Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”
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“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
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“It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.”
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“It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.”
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“Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.”
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“Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.”
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“I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people "participate.”
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“Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.”
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“This moment will just be another story someday.”
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“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
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“And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy.”
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“I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.”
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“And I never felt that good in my life. But I also felt bad because I saw her naked without her permission.”
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“Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone”
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“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.”
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“There are other people who have it a lot worse”
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