Stephen Chbosky
- The Perks of Being A Wallflower
If I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they are upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.
Stephen Chbosky
- The Perks of Being A Wallflower
Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Because it's okay to feel things. I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite. I feel infinite.
Stephen Chbosky
- The Perks of Being A Wallflower
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. 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. I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is.
Stephen Chbosky
- The Perks of Being A Wallflower
Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everybody was, especially me.
Stephen Chbosky
- The Perks of Being A Wallflower
It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day. And how they cope with having three quizzes and a book report. On top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why. Especially since I know that if they went to another school, the person who had their heart broken would have had their heart broken by somebody else, so why does it have to be personal? It's much easier to not know things sometimes.
Stephen Chbosky
- The Perks of Being A Wallflower
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way.
