Perks Of Being Wallflower Quotes & Sayings

Promise mw, you will never leave me. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt. — Stephen Chbosky

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. — Stephen Chbosky

I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think everyone is special in their own way. I really do. — Stephen Chbosky

It's nice to have things to look forward to. — Stephen Chbosky

No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell — Stephen Chbosky

I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be a tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. It think that would be nice. — Stephen Chbosky

Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. — Stephen Chbosky

She's smiling, a bright diminutive smile. Her eyes have come loose. — Margaret Atwood

A journey to make real impact that changes lives, give meaning to life and living, and turns vision of the masses into realities demands a true focus, an utmost zeal and robustness and an unfailing tenacity to do whatever necessary within the powers and reach of a true leader, and with all needed dexterity, wit and wisdom, to make real impact have a meaning and give real liberation to the masses! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. Little kids who looked tired. Fathers in nice coats who looked even more tired. Kids working behind counters of the food places who looked like they hadn't had the will to live for hours. The machines kept opening and closing. The people kept giving money and getting their change. And it all felt very unsettlingly to me. — Stephen Chbosky

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 unexpressed is always of greater value than the expressed. — Zona Gale

As of right now, I am in love with her, and that love is the biggest problem in my life. — Chuck Klosterman

But my dad said it was no excuse.
"But I love him!" I had never seen my sister cry that much.
"No, you don't."
"I hate you!"
"No, you don't." My dad can be very calm sometimes.
"He's my whole world."
"Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me." That was my mom. — Stephen Chbosky

He said it was the kind of book you made your own. — Stephen Chbosky

My favorite book is 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky. — Emma Roberts

If I become like you, I will have no will of my own. I will have no individuality, I will just be your puppet.'
'True.' Sio smiled thinly. 'But even a puppet may dance before its strings are drawn tight. You will dance, Cass, and the heavens will applaud you. — Christopher Pike

St. Vincent was far too clever to rely on physical violence when a few well-chosen words would skewer someone with a minimum of fuss. — Lisa Kleypas

All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it ... Then you understand the horror of war. — Norman Schwarzkopf

I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial that advertised an exercise machine. They kept flashing a 1-800 number, so I called it. The woman who picked up the other end of the phone was named Michelle. And I told Michelle that I was a kid and did not need an exercise machine, but I hoped she was having a good night.
That's when Michelle hung up on me. And I didn't mind a bit. — Stephen Chbosky

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. — Stephen Chbosky

I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my face. Not caring if I saw downtown. Not even thinking about it. Because I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite. — Stephen Chbosky

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. — Stephen Chbosky

I want to go to Harry Potter Land! I actually should text Emma Watson to see if she can hook us up with a backstage pass or something. That's the perk of doing a movie with Emma called 'The Perks Of Being A Wallflower.' — Nina Dobrev

I love you. I love you so much that sometimes I feel as if it's never enough. I'll always want more of you. Every day I wish I had found you sooner so I could love you longer. — Kimberly Lauren

Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my friend again. And that was enough for me. — Stephen Chbosky

Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it ... Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it. — Joan Didion

Maybe it's sad that these are now memories. And maybe it's not sad. — Stephen Chbosky

I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees her is better than she actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera. — Stephen Chbosky

Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be. — Stephen Chbosky

My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me, he was still a rock star. — Tracy Morgan

Dom decided that when life returned to normal - even after fourteen years, he had to think that it could - he'd follow Cole's example and treat money as easy come, easy go. People were what mattered. You couldn't replace them, and they didn't earn interest. They just slipped away a day at a time, and you had to make the most of every precious moment. When — Karen Traviss

I'm caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it. — Stephen Chbosky

Charlie?'
'Uh-huh?'
'Do you like me?'
'Uh-huh.'
'You know what I mean?'
'Uh-huh.'
'Are you nervous?'
'Uh-huh.'
'Don't be nervous.'
'Okay. — Stephen Chbosky

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. — Stephen Chbosky

We Are All Infinite — Stephen Chbosky

...there are times when silence is a poem. — John Fowles

I don't want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can't think again. Not ever again. — Stephen Chbosky

I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' ... It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it. — Logan Lerman

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things. — Stephen Chbosky

I am below average! — Stephen Chbosky