Books I Like: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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 knows this. And it gives her a sense of purpose. You get it?”

It’s just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life

Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve

(The one thing I did ask my dad was about the boy’s problems at home. Whether or not he thought the parents hit their son.)..... Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it’s no excuse

He's a wallflower....You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.

I just think it’s bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is. And I think it’s bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera.

thinking about presents is a good way to think about him

I don’t think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it’s nice. It really is.

It’s much easier not to know things sometimes. And to have french fries with your mom be enough.

Then, she thanked me for not trying to make what I did seem less by offering a lot of excuses.

There’s nothing like the deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons. It was that great.

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

Something like that. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people.

He just let me hear what he had to say in my own way and let things be.

Maybe it’s good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.Fhjjhjkjj