There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.
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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
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.
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.
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…
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.
It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too.
I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.
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. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me.
And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.
I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.
We accept the love we think we deserve.
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.
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.