It was the kind of kiss that mademe know that I was never so... - Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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

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

"It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody 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."

"As you see the opening get closer, you just can't get fast enough. And finally, just when you think you'll never get there, you see the opening right in front of you."

"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 else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have."