Quotes: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Last week I posted a review for The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. I actually intended to post my favourite quotes in the same article but then I realised they were too many so I decided to post them separately. Enjoy :) 

• It would be very nice to have a friend again. I would like that even more than a date. (Charlie)
• I look at people holding hands in the hallways, and I try to think about how it all works. At the school dances, I sit in the background, and I tap my toe, and I wonder how many couples will dance to "their song". I see the girls wearing the guys' jackets, and I thing about the idea of property. And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are. (Charlie)
• It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life. (Bill)
• We accept the love we think we deserve. (Bill)
• I do not know why this excited me, but I guess when you see somebody in the hallway or on the field or something, it's nice to know that they are a real person. (Charlie)
• Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people read those books before. And listened to those songs. I wonder how they feel tonight. (Charlie)
• I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera. (Charlie)
• 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. (Charlie)
• Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don't know why. I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday, so I should store up as many great details as I can, so during the next terrible week, I can remember those details and believe that I'll feel great again. (Charlie)
• I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and I smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet. (Charlie)
• I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away. And disappear. (Charlie)
• But because things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. (Charlie)
• I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't. (Charlie)
• And I think everyone is special in their own way. I really do. (Charlie)
• It's strange the times people choose to be generous. (Charlie)
• I should just do what I wanted to do. Not think about it. Not say it loud. (Charlie)
• So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. (Charlie)
• I think that 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 were upset. And even if somebody has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. (Charlie)
• Please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. (Charlie)

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D.