So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.
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Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky (/ʃəˈbɒski/; born January 25, 1970) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director best known for writing The New York Times bestselling coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), as well as for screenwriting and directing the film version of the same book, starring Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, and Ezra Miller. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film Rent, and Disney's 2017 live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast alongside with Evan Spiliotopoulos and was co-creator, executive producer, and writer of the CBS television series Jericho, which began airing in 2006. 2Early life Chbosky was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in the Pittsburgh suburb of Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Lea (née Meyer), a tax preparer, and Fred G. Chbosky, a steel company executive and consultant to CFOs. Chbosky has a sister, Stacy, who is married to director John Erick Dowdle. He was raised Catholic. As a teenager, Chbosky "enjoyed a good blend of the classics, horror, and fantasy." He was heavily influenced by J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye and the writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tennessee Williams. Chbosky graduated from Upper St. Clair High School in 1988, around which time he met Stewart Stern, screenwriter of the 1955 James Dean film Rebel Without a Caus
We accept the love we think we deserve.
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
I'm so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. I really do. I hope you do, too. Okay, then. Goodbye.
I'm not trying to make you feel uncomfortable. I just want you to know that you're very special... and the only reason I'm telling you is that I don't know if anyone else ever has.
We accept the love we think we deserve.
I’m not trying to make you feel uncomfortable. I just want you to know that you’re very special … and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.
The master's not as terrible as he appears!
[to his reflection] You are the wildest, most gorgeous thing I've ever seen! Nobody deserves you...
[singing] And his name's G-A-S-T... I believe there's another T... It just occurred to me that I'm illiterate and I've never actually had to spell it out loud before...
[singing in his workshop] How does a moment last forever? How can a story never die? / It is love we must hold on to, never easy, but we try / Sometimes our happiness is captured, somehow a time and place stand still, / Love lives on inside our hearts, and always will.
Belle: [to the Beast] I never thanked you for saving my life. Beast: Well, I never thanked you for not leaving me to be eaten by wolves. [Belle laughs]
[sings] I was the one who had it all, I was the master of my fate / I never needed anybody in my life, I learned the truth too late / I'll never shake away the pain, I close my eyes but she's still there / I let her steal into my melancholy heart, it's more than I can bear / Now I know she'll never…
[singing] I want adventure in the great wide somewhere, I want it more than I can tell...And for once it might be grand to have someone understand, I want so much more than they've got planned!
Belle: [to a hairbrush] What's your name? Cogsworth: That is a hairbrush.
Prince: [dancing with her] What? What is it? Belle: [smiles] How would you feel about growing a beard? [He smirks and growls. They laugh]