Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chboskyis 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, 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 was co-creator, executive producer, and writer of the CBS television series Jericho, which began airing in 2006...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 January 1970
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing"; - "We accept the love we think we deserve,
He's a wallflower." And Bob nodded his head. And the whole room nodded their head. And i started to feel nervous in the Bob way, but Patrick didn't let me get too nervous. He sat down next to me. "You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial that advertised an exercise machine. They kept flashing a 1-800 number, so I called it. The woman who picked up the other end of the phone was named Michelle. And I told Michelle that I was a kid and did not need an exercise machine, but I hoped she was having a good night. That's when Michelle hung up on me. And I didn't mind a bit.
Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker,...
So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.
people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.
What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?
And things were back to normal except we were just friends.
Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.
I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees her is better than she actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera.
I remembered this one time that I never told anybody about. The time we were walking. Just the three of us. I was in the middle. I don't remember where we were walking to or where we were walking from. I just remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere
If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.
It's strange the times people choose to be generous.
I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of them kept touching his beard.