Mar > Mar's Quotes

“I wish I could stop being in love with Sam. I really do.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“He said it was the kind of book you made your own.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“We are who we are for a lot of reasons”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“There are other people who have it a lot worse”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear...”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Try to be a filter, not a sponge.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?”
― 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

“I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I'm just thinking too fast-- much too fast.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“He's a wallflower.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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

“Just what is a friend anyway? When do people start seeing each other as friends? When they first talk alone? When they exchange contact information? When they take a photo together? I’ll bet they know... what friends are.”
― Yoshitoki Oima, 聲の形 2 [Koe no Katachi 2]

“A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

“I think, How innocent we are of our mistakes and how responsible we are for them.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Heartbreaking Memoir of a Father's Struggle with His Son's Addiction and the Journey to Recovery

“Nonetheless: if only and if only and if only.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

“Sometimes, it strikes me that life goes on, but it does, inexorably.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

“You're as sick as your secrets.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

“I am a sucker to contemplate opening to the idea of healing.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“With wild eyes that had seen freedom.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slip cover. It shields and disguises what's beneath. That's why we grow it; we have something to hide. ”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“Tell me that you don’t take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted