Stephen Chbosky

born 1970

6 genuine quotes, each found in the text.

American novelist, screenwriter and director, born in Pittsburgh, best known for The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), a coming-of-age novel in letters, which he also adapted and directed as a film in 2012. His best-known lines are written or spoken by the novel’s characters, above all Charlie, the letter-writer, and Bill, his English teacher, not said in his own voice.

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Genuine Chbosky quotes

  1. So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.

    The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), Part One, letter of August 25, 1991, said by Charlie.

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

    The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), Part One, letter of August 25, 1991, said by Charlie.

  3. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

    The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), A letter of October 1991 (the party at Bob’s and the drive through the tunnel; date line not read), the last line, p. 42, said by Charlie.

  4. We accept the love we think we deserve.

    The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), Part 1, letter of October 6, 1991, said by Bill.

  5. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.

    The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), letter of October 1991 (the party at Bob’s), Patrick to Charlie, about p. 39, said by Patrick.

  6. Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

    The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), letter of October 6, 1991, in Bill’s talk with Charlie, just before ‘we accept the love we think we deserve’ (about p. 26–27; letter and page inferred, the page itself not read), said by Bill.

Paraphrased: Chbosky’s thought, in other words

  1. We can’t choose where we come from, but we can choose where we go from there.

    Paraphrase. The idea is in The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), Last letter, August 23, 1992 (placement inside the letter inferred, see checked), said by Charlie.

The works we hold

Quotes are looked up word for word in these texts. The number is how many genuine quotes here come from each.

WorkYearGenuine quotes
The Perks of Being a Wallflower19996

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