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.

— Stephen Chbosky

I just kind of put my feelings away somewhere after that.

— Stephen Chbosky

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.

— Stephen Chbosky

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.

— Stephen Chbosky

I just reminded myself that she didn't say it mean. She wasn't making fun of me. She wasn't comparing. Or criticizing.

— Stephen Chbosky

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.

— Stephen Chbosky

I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.

— Stephen Chbosky

I just wish Mary Elizabeth would ask me questions other than “What's up?

— Stephen Chbosky

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.

— Stephen Chbosky

I know I should have been grateful because it was a very nice thing to do. But I wasn't grateful. I wasn't grateful at all. Don't get me wrong. I acted like I was. But I wasn't. To tell you the truth, I was starting to get mad.

— Stephen Chbosky