“I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“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.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“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.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except 'be there.' I just want to make him stop hurting, but I can't. So I just follow him around whenever he wants to show me his world.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time, which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which [God] has of reality as a whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered them. He would therefore have them continually concerned either with eternity or with the Present--either meditating on their eternal union with, or separation from, Himself, or else obeying the present voice of conscience, bearing the present cross, receiving the present grace, giving thanks for the present pleasure.”
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