Stephen Chbosky

"charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve."

"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."

"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."

"so, i guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. and maybe we'll never know most of them. but even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. we can still do things. and we can try to feel okay about them."