1. “You’re not small, you’re beautiful.”
2. “Try to be a filter, not a sponge.”
3. “Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”
4. “Suck it, virginity pledges, suck it!”
5. “He’s a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”
6. “I dare you to kiss the prettiest girl in the room on the lips. And notice I charitably said girl and not person because let’s face it, I’d smoke all you bitches.”
7. “I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”
8. “Charlie. Please don’t take this the wrong way. I’m not trying to make you feel uncomfortable. I just want you to know that you’re special…and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.”
9. “This moment will just be another story someday.”
10. “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.”
11. “It’s just that I don’t want to be somebody’s crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don’t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.”
12. “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.”
13. “It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.”
14. “There’s nothing like the deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for all the right reasons.”
15. “I saw this tree. But it was a dragon. Then it was a tree again. It just lied to me.”
16. “You know, I used to be popular before Sam got me some good music.”
17. “C’mon. Let’s go be psychos together!”
18. “My life is officially an after school special.”
19. “And we kept dancing. It was the one time all day that I really wanted the clock to stop. And just be there for a long time.”
20. “Touch my friends again and I’ll blind you.”
21. “High school? Bullshit. The cafeteria is called the Nutrition Center; people wear their letter jackets even when it’s 98 degrees out. And why do they give out letter jackets to marching band? It’s not a sport. We all know it.”
22. “Either you call me Patrick or nothing.”
23. “Welcome to the island of misfit toys.”
24. “I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.”
25. “I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.”
26. “C minus, ladies and gentlemen! I am below average!”
27. “Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it’s no excuse.”
28. “After that, I couldn’t believe that Sam actually got me a present because I honestly thought that the “I love you” was it.”
29. “She wasn’t bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. ”
30. “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
31. “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.”
32. “I just think it’s bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees her is better than she actually is. And I think it’s bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera.”
33. “Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I’ve been watching cable television and eating jello.”
34. “Be aggressive! Passive-aggressive!”
35. “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. And disappear.”
36. “Enjoy it. Because it’s happening.”
37. “It’s strange to think of your teachers as being people.”
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