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

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The fact that one of these ladies was my mom made me particularly sad because my mom is beautiful. And she's always on a diet. Sometimes, my dad calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear him.

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Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

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Do you always think this much, Charlie?" "Is that bad?" "Not necessarily. It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life." "Is that bad?" "Yes.

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I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.

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It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real.

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Deep down...she's a good woman...you should be proud of her." When I told my mom about this, she just looked very sad because he could never say those things to her. Not ever. Not even when he walked her down the aisle.

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The thing is, some girls think they can actually change guys. And what's funny is that if they actually did change them, they'd get bored. They'd have no challenge left. You just have to give girls some time to think of a new way of doing things, that's all. Some of them will figure it out here. Some later. Some never. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

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The sound of the radio fades to nothing because the waves just can't reach

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I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.

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I was in the shopping mall because that's where I go lately. For the last couple of weeks, I've been going there every day, trying to figure out why people go there. It's kind of a personal project.

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The outside lights were on, and it was snowing, and it looked like magic. Like we were somewhere else. Like we were someplace better.

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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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But Mary Elizabeth felt different. She kept saying it was an "articulate" film. So "articulate." And I guess it was. The thing is, I didn't know what it said even if it said it very well.

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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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Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don't know why.

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I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.

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I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay?

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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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And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.

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I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

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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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To tell you the truth I love Sam. It's not a movie kind of love either. I just look at her sometimes and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the whole world.

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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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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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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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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 really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

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And even if she says no, and really means yes, then quite frankly she's playing games and isn't worth the price of dinner.

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I don't want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can't think again. Not ever again.

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And for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.

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