Stephen Chbosky Quotes

A collection of quotes by Stephen Chbosky.

Stephen Chbosky is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director born on January 25, 1970. He is best known for his coming-of-age novel, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," which was published in 1999 and later adapted into a critically acclaimed film in 2012. Chbosky has also worked as a screenwriter for notable movies like "Rent" and "Beauty and the Beast." While he has written several screenplays and directed the 2012 film adaptation of his own novel, he has primarily focused on writing fiction.

Do you enjoy holidays with your family? I don't mean your mo

Do you enjoy holidays with your family? I don't mean your mom and dad family, but your uncle and aunt and cousin family? Personally, I do. There are several reasons for this. First, I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other. Second, the fights are always the same.

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But in that moment when my brother took the field, all that

But in that moment when my brother took the field, all that washed away, and everyone was proud... I looked up at my dad, and he was smiling. I looked at my mom, and she was smiling even though she was nervous about my brother getting hurt, which was strange because it was a VCR tape of an old game, and she knew he didn't get hurt.

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Inspirational Family Relationships

I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so di

I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if she really isn't like what she was at the beginning, I wish she could have just said so.

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Truth Wishful Thinking

I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. Ther

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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Life Growing Up

I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can w

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

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Truth

Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes,

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. And be who you are about them.

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Life Perspective Feel

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anyb

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

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Life Change

Even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really

Even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't reallychange the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

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Wisdom Life Truth Inspirational Life Lessons

I feel infinite.

I feel infinite.

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Inspirational

You see things and you understand, you're a wallflower.

You see things and you understand, you're a wallflower.

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Love Friendship Inspirational

please believe that things are good with me, and even when t

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.

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Life Happiness Inspirational

I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happ

I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.

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Inspirational

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowin

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

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Learning

When you think back to your first kiss, your hair is perfect

When you think back to your first kiss, your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and we remember it with style. We remember it as idealistically as you can think.

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Cool