The Perks of Being A Wallflower

• Sam      : Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing?
  Charlie : We accept the love we think we deserve.
  
  
• “we accept the love we think we deserve.” 

• “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.” 

• “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”

• “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.” 

• “I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”

• “I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”

• “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.” 

• “She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. ”

• “And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.” 

• “This moment will just be another story someday.”

• “We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough” 

• “It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”

• “please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.” 

• “It was the kind of kiss that made
  me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.” 

• " You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.” 

• “I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.” 

• “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.” 

• “I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.”

• “And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.”

• “The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia. ” 

• “I hate you."
  I love you."
  You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have."
  I'm trying not to be.”

• “It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everybody was, especially me. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and than make the choice to share it with other people. You can't just sit their and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things. I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is. And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn't do or what they didn't know. I don't know. I guess there could always be someone to blame. It's just different. Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Because it's okay to feel things. I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite. I feel infinite.” 

Last letter.

I don’t know if I will have the time to write anymore letters
because I might be too busy trying to participate.
So if this does end up being the last letter,
I just want you to know that I was in a bad place before I started high school
and you helped me.

Even if you didn’t know what I was talking about
or know someone who’s gone through it.
You made me not feel alone.

Because I know there are people who say all these things don’t happen.
And there are people who forget what it’s like to be sixteen when they turn seventeen.
And know these will all be stories someday
and our pictures will become old photographs
and we’ll all become somebody’s mom or dad.
But right now these moments are not stories.

This is happening.
I am here and I am looking at her
and she is so beautiful.
I can see it.
This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story,
you are alive.
And you stand up and see the lights on buildings
and everything that makes you wonder,
when you were listening to that song
on that drive with the people you love most in this world.

And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite.