Frases de Stephen Chbosky

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“Eu morreria por você. Mas não viveria por você.”

“[…] tenho de ouvir Mary Elizabeth falar sem parar de todas as coisas importantes que ela me mostra o tempo todo. É quase como se só houvesse três coisas envolvidas [no relacionamento]: Mary Elizabeth, eu e as coisas importantes.”

“É como quando você se olha no espelho e diz seu nome. E chega a um ponto em que nada parece real.”

“É só que eu não quero ser a paixonite de ninguém. Se alguém gosta de mim, eu quero que goste de mim de verdade, e não pelo que pensam que eu sou. E não quero que carreguem isso preso por dentro. Quero que mostrem para mim, para que eu possa sentir também.”

“No podemos elegir de donde venimos pero si hacia donde vamos”

“Porque não há problema em sentir as coisas. E ser quem você é.”

“É estranho como tudo pode voltar ao que era antes tão de repente quanto mudou originalmente. E quando uma coisa acontece e, de repente, tudo volta ao normal.”

“[…] acho que somos quem somos por várias razões. E talvez nunca conheçamos a maior parte delas. Mas mesmo que não tenhamos o poder de escolher quem vamos ser, ainda podemos escolher aonde iremos a partir daqui.”

“To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.”

“Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I've been watching cable television and eating jello.”

“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.”

“On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.”

“I can't think again. Not ever again. 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.”

“Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.”

“But right now I’m here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do.”

“It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.”

“I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.”

“It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.”

“If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.”

“I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do.”

“Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.”

“Girls are weird, and I don't mean that offensively. I just can't put it any other way.”

“So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.”

“It's nice to have things to look forward to.”

“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.”

“Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun.”

“I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.”

“It was the kind of kiss I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know I was never so happy in my whole life.”

“And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.”

“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.”

“I'm just thinking too fast-- much too fast.”

“I put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.”

“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.”

“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.”

“He's a wallflower.”

“Sam screamed the fun scream, and there it was. Downtown lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. Sam sat down and started laughing. Patrick started laughing. I started laughing. and in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”

“I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay?”