

“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. And disappear. I know that’s wrong because it’s my responsibility, and I know that things get worse before they get better because that’s what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I don’t know if I will have the time to write any more letters, because I might be too busy trying to participate. So, if this does end up being the last letter, I just want you to know that I was in a bad place before I started high school, and you helped me. Even if you didn’t know what I was talking about, or know someone who’s gone through it, you made me not feel alone. Because I know there are people who say all these things don’t happen. And there are people who forget what it’s like to be sixteen when they turn seventeen. I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all become somebody’s mom or dad. But right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening. I am here, and I am looking at her. And she is so beautiful. I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive. And you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song, and that drive with the people who you love most in this world. And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Things get worse before they get better.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The reason I am thinking so far in advance is because school is terribly lonely. I think I've said that before, but it's getting harder every day.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Some people really do have it a lot worse than I do. They really do.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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