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bed98c4
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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.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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d226e37
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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.
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things
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Stephen Chbosky |
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062ce6f
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The thing is, some girls think they can actually change guys. And what's funny is that if they actually did change them, they'd get bored. They'd have no challenge left. You just have to give girls some time to think of a new way of doing things, that's all. Some of them will figure it out here. Some later. Some never. I wouldn't worry about it too much.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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c78011d
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I sat down and tried to write a story. "Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out of them with delight." That was the first sentence. The problem was that I just couldn't think of the next one. After cleaning my room three times, I decided to leave Ian alone for a while because I was starting to get mad at him."
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writing
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Stephen Chbosky |
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dae61ba
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It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.
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friendship
life
growing-up
endings
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Stephen Chbosky |
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ea6dc1a
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And when she started becoming a "young lady," and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was fat. And how she really wasn't fat. And how she was actually very pretty. And how different her face looked when she realized boys thought she was pretty. And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that ..
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beauty
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Stephen Chbosky |
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e72c000
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If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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265043c
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It's nice to have things to look forward to.
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inspirational
look-forward-to
stephen-chbosky
the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower
things
thinking
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Stephen Chbosky |
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1e28b31
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As you enter the tunnel, the wind gets sucked away, and you squint from the lights overhead. When you adjust the lights, you can see the other side in the distance just as the sound of the radio fades to nothing because the waves just can't reach. Then, you're in the middle of the tunnel, and everything becomes a calm dream. As you see the opening get closer, you just can't get there fast enough. And finally, just when you think you'll neve..
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Stephen Chbosky |
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8bc0149
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So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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e621e72
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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.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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41a4859
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Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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39f8a15
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Girls are weird, and I don't mean that offensively. I just can't put it any other way.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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e80ec1f
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Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.
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stephen-chbosky
the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower
reading-books
read
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Stephen Chbosky |
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63d567f
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I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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e6d9f2c
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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.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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a850409
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I remembered this one time that I never told anybody about. The time we were walking. Just the three of us. I was in the middle. I don't remember where we were walking to or where we were walking from. I just remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere
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Stephen Chbosky |
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c5c8fa4
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Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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b5bfe4c
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Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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b26f4a8
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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.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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0c87091
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I'm just thinking too fast-- much too fast.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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14e0975
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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.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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2e7d447
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Every person has to live his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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871d9a4
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Maybe he didn't really encourage me to do things, but he didn't prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn't do things because I didn't want him to think different about me. But the thing is, I wasn't being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't really even know me?
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Stephen Chbosky |
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1adc3a2
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So, I looked up, and we were in this giant dome like a glass snowball, and Mark said that the amazing white stars were really only holes in the black glass of the dome, and when you went to heaven, the glass broke away, and there was nothing but a whole sheet of star white, which is brighter than anything but doesn't hurt your eyes. It was vast and open and thinly quiet, and I felt so small.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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12a14d6
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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.
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the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower
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Stephen Chbosky |
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0ebc861
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I put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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e499b4f
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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.
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perks
wallflower
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Stephen Chbosky |
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e4804bf
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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.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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028e14a
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He's a wallflower.
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chbosky
wallflower
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Stephen Chbosky |
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b704818
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I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay?
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Stephen Chbosky |
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6969845
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She took me to her room and stood me in front of her dresser, which was covered in a pillowcase with pretty colors. She lifted off the pillowcase, and there I was, standing in my old suit, looking at an old typewriter with a fresh ribbon. Inside the typewriter was a piece of white paper. On that piece of white paper, Sam wrote, "Write about me sometime." And I typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. I just typed. "..
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Stephen Chbosky |
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4e9a52e
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Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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2128243
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Everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other
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Stephen Chbosky |
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936129c
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I don't want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can't think again. Not ever again.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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da04c09
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I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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c4f1456
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I feel infinite.
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inspirational
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Stephen Chbosky |
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f92ea0c
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I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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c409ddd
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Everyone is special in their own way.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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b8ba980
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It's strange the times people choose to be generous.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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82c5869
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. 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.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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a7f65f4
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And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn't do or what they didn't know. I don't know. I guess there would always be someone to blame.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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b3f68fc
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As I was walking up the stairs to dad's old room, and I was looking at the photographs, I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories. That someone actually took the photograph, and the people in the photograph had just eaten lunch or something.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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5aea0c6
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Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder.
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Stephen Chbosky |