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Next was Alice. I gave her a book by Anne Rice because she is always talking about her. And she looked at me like she couldn't believe I knew she loved Anne Rice. I guess she didn't know how much she talked or how much I listen.
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What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?
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He's a wallflower." And Bob nodded his head. And the whole room nodded their head. And i started to feel nervous in the Bob way, but Patrick didn't let me get too nervous. He sat down next to me. "You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand."
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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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He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.
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El problema es que todo el mundo siempre compara a todos con todos y que eso le quita merito a la gente
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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 boy.
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You ever think Charlie, that our group is the same as any other group like a football team? And the only real difference between us is what we wear and why we wear it?
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But Mary Elizabeth felt different. She kept saying it was an "articulate" film. So "articulate." And I guess it was. The thing is, I didn't know what it said even if it said it very well."
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deep down...she's a good woman...you should be proud of her." When I told my mom about this, she just looked very sad because he could never say those things to her. Not ever. Not even when he walked her down the aisle."
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I hate you.'
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funny
perks
perks-of-being-a-wallflower
wallflower
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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 won't change the fact that they are upset.
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And then he says something like this ... "I would die for you. But I won't live for you." Something like that. 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."
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Stephen Chbosky |
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And I never felt that good in my life. But I also felt bad because I saw her naked without her permission.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn't mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.
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I don't want to be somebody's crush. If someone likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me. And if they do something I don't like, I'll tell them.
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How about your favorite book?" "This Side of Paradise by From. Scott Fitzgerald." "Why?" "Because it was the last one I read." This made them laugh because they knew I meant it honest, not show-off. Then they told me their favorites, and we sat quiet."
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Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy
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Something like that. 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.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. If I took it, I would know that the only reason it's beautiful is because of Sam. I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better then the girl actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can ..
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Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve.
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It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder. What if they need the arms or something like that?
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And later that night to be with my family at dinnertime and have things just be like they always were. That was the amazing part. Things just keep going. We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough.
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The gift from my Secret Santa wasn't anything special. That makes me sad. I bet you anything that Mary Elizabeth is my Secret Santa because only she would give me socks.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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Si le gusto a alguien,quiero que sea mi verdadero yo el que le guste,no lo que piense que soy
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I said no to having a beer. I once had a beer with my brother when I was twelve, and I just didn't like it. It's really that simple for me. [pp.37]
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I hope it's the kind of second side that he can listen to whenever he drives alone and feel like he belongs to something whenever he's sad. I hope it can be that for him.
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Sam looked at me soft. And she hugged me. And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.
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relationships
security
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I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way.
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No puedes solo sentarte y poner la vida de todos por encima de la tuya y pensar que eso cuenta como amor. Simplemente no puedes. Tienes que hacer algo.
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It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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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.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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Dear Friend, I'm sorry I haven't written to you in a couple of weeks, but I have been trying to 'participate' like Bill said.
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life
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After the song finished, I said something. "I feel infinite." And Sam and Patrick looked at me like I said the gratest things they ever heard."
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I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. I know other people have it a lot worse. I do know that, but it's crashing in anyway, and I just can't stop thinking that the little kid eating french fries with his mom in the shopping mall is going to grow up and my sister.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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That nice feeling when you look in the mirror, and your hair's right for the first time in your life? I don;t think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it's nice. It really is.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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I am below average!
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But after a while, the whole thing just wasn't interesting to him anymore, and he ran out of things to keep himself numb.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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There were other stories and other names. Second Base Stace, who had breasts in fourth grade and let some of the boys feel them. Vincent, who took acid and tried to flush a sofa down the toilet. Sheila, who allegedly masturbated with a hot dog and had to go to the emergency room. The list went on and on.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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You should tell her how nice her outfit is because her outfit is her choice whereas her face isn't.
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Stephen Chbosky |
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Five minutes of a lifetime
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Stephen Chbosky |
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and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.
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