Stephen Chbosky Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Sight, Giving

• You take girls, for example. They're copying their moms and magazines and everything to know how to act around guys. I mean it's not like in movies where girls like assholes or anything like that. It's not that easy. They just like somebody that can give them purpose.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Girl, Mom, Mean

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Girl, Thinking, Giving

• I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Giving, Records, Knows

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

• 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?

  Stephen Chbosky

  Girl, Mom, Mother

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

• in the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a real trend in the kind of books bill gives me to read. and just like the tape of songs, it is amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand. they are all my favorites. all of them.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Song, Real, Book

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

• And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to hear Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Mean, Giving, Records

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

• I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn’t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Beautiful, Song, Mean

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

• The gift from my Secret Santa wasn't anything special. That makes me sad. I bet you anything that Mary Elizabeth is my Secret Santa because only she would give me socks.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Giving, Secret, Special

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

• The most beautiful surprise is that you have these moments where you connect with people on a deep level without saying a word. It's one of those wonderful things that you get what you give, and I'm grateful for it.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Beautiful, Grateful, People

  "Interview with Stephen Chbosky, Writer/Director of "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Interview with Lisa Minzey, www.phoenixfilmfestival.com. September 27, 2012.

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