Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

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"I hate you." My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me.She really did. "I love you," was all I could say in return. "You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." "I'm trying not to be. Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

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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.

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I'm so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. I really do. I hope you do, too. Okay, then. Goodbye.

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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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And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.

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I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do.

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There were other stories and other names. Second Base Stace, who had breasts in fourth grade and let some of the boys feel them. Vincent, who took acid and tried to flush a sofa down the toilet. Sheila, who allegedly masturbated with a hot dog and had to go to the emergency room. The list went on and on.

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More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain.

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As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me.

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I spent all night working on it, and I hope Patrick likes it as much as I do. Especially the second side. I hope it's the kind of second side that he can listen to whenever he drives alone and feel like he belongs to something whenever he's sad. I hope it can be that for him.

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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.

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When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there.

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I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.

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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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My sister was the one who told me where babies come from. My sister was also the one who laughed when I immediately asked her where babies go to.

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I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.

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Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun.

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Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

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You know... a lot of kids at school hate their parents. Some of them got hit. And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives. Some of them were trophies for their parents to show the neighbors like ribbons or gold stars. And some of them just wanted to drink in peace.

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But at one point, Craig was talking about something, and Sam turned to me and smiled. It was a movie smile in slow motion, and then everything was okay.

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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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Girls like guys to be a challenge. It gives them some mold to fit in how they act. Like a mom. What would a mom do if she couldn't fuss over you and make you clean your room? And what would you do without her fussing and making you do it? Everyone needs a mom. And a mom knowns this. And it gives her a sense of purpose. You get it?

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Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

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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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Was very fun to be around. She liked movies, and her brother Frank made her tapes of this great music that she shared with us. But over the summer she had her braces taken off, and she got a little taller and prettier and grew breasts. Now, she acts a lot dumber in the hallways, especially when boys are around. And I think it's sad because Susan doesn't look as happy.

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Asleep by the Smiths Vapour Trail by Ride Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum Dear Prudence by the Beatles Gypsy by Suzanne Vega Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues Daydream by Smashing Pumpkins Dusk by Genesis (before Phil Collins was even in the band!) MLK by U2 Blackbird by the Beatles Landslide by Fleetwood Mac Asleep by the Smiths (again!) -Charlie's mixtape

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And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy.

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It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.

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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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Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

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