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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Also a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflowe

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“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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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

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“And in that moment I swear we were infinite.”

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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

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“It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.”

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“Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.”

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“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.”

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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

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“Sometimes, I look at my parents now and wonder what happened to make them the way they are.”

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“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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“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”

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“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.”

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“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…”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”

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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com

Tagged: The Perks Of Being A Wildflower