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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.

Stephen Chbosky

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Stephen Chbosky
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 25
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Heart
Reports
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Students
Broken
Wonder
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Three
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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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I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.
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You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.
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I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people participate.
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I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.
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Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker.
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He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
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I would die for you. But I won't live for you.
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And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity.
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I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You’re alive. And you stand up and see the lights and the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song in that drive with the people you love most in this world. And in this moment I swear… we are infinite.
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but my dad said it was no excuse. But I love him! I had never seen my sister cry that much. No, you don't. I hate you! No, you don't. My dad can be very calm sometimes. He's my whole world. Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me. That was my mom.
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Why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't even really know me?
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I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.
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