“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.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“Try to be a filter, not a sponge.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people who could be replaced as easily as broken windowpanes, he would go and pour out his heart to Momo. And, even as he spoke, he would come to realize by some mysterious means that he was absolutely wrong: that there was only one person like himself in the whole world, and that, consequently, he mattered to the world in his own particular way.
Such was Momo's talent for listening.”
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Such was Momo's talent for listening.”
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