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“My life didn't please me, so I created my life.”
― Coco Chanel

“To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“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”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Maybe he didn’t really encourage me to do things, but he didn’t prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn’t do things because I didn’t want him to think different about me. But the thing is, I wasn’t being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn’t really even know me?”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“So, tomorrow, I’m leaving. And I’m not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there would always be someone to blame.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I guess I'm pretty emotional.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“And things were back to normal except we were just friends.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Maybe this are my glory days, and I'm not even realizing it...”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I wonder what it will be like when I leave this place.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone. And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being "passive aggressive.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if she really isn't like what she was at the beginning, I wish she could have just said so.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be the tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. I think that would be nice.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“My face doesn’t match my personality. Maybe it would if instead of a mouth I had an asshole in its place.
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― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

“Sometimes being a nice person is all about knowing when to be an asshole.”
― John Cheese

“So are there any asshole guys here I can start dating?' she says. 'That's, like, my pattern.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Everything is going to be fine.”

I hate it when people say that, people who have absolutely no idea of what’s coming next. They turn you into an idiot for even asking.”
― Jenny Valentine

“It's not so much that the old friend is a better friend. It's just that you know the person better, and you know they don't really care if you're acting like a poor, grovelling idiot. They know you would do the same for them.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog

“El idiota cree que todos son idiotas menos él.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Kappa

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”
― Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders