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This moment will just be another story someday.

Stephen Chbosky

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Stephen Chbosky
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 25
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Someday
Story
Moment
Moments
Another
Stories
Life
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Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why.
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And she looked at me like she couldn't believe I knew she loved Anne Rice. I guess he didn't know how much she talked or how much I listened.
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Charlie, you’re one of the most gifted people I’ve ever known. And I don’t mean in terms of my other students. I mean in terms of anyone I’ve ever met.
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Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I’ve been watching cable television and eating jello.
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The sound of the radio fades to nothing because the waves just can't reach
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Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.
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And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.
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I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't
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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.
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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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The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.
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The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.
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It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that.
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On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.
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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.
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I wasn't raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much. I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven't let Him down regardless.
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Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.
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I look at people holdings hands in the hallways, and I try to think how it all works. At the school dances, I sit in the background, and I tap my toe, and I wonder how many couples will dance to ‘their song.’ In the hallways, I see the girls wearing the guys’ jackets, and I think about the idea of property. And I wonder if anyone is really happy.
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And I could see this boy doing his homework and thinking about my sister naked. And I could see them holding hands at football games that they do not watch. And I could see this boy throwing up in the bushes at a party house. And I could see my sister putting up with it. And I felt very bad for both of them.
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I am really in love with Sam, and it hurts very much.
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