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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? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I hate you."
I love you."
You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have."
I'm trying not to be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You know . . . a lot of kids at school hate their parents. Some of them got hit. And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives. Some of them were trophies for their parents to show the neighbors like ribbons or gold stars. And some of them just wanted to drink in peace.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“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.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“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.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower