thebenjitisman 's review for:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
4.0

"incidentally, sam has brown hair and very very pretty brown eyes. the kind of green that doesn't make a big deal about itself."

"'it's just that sometimes people use thoughts to not participate in life.'"

"'charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve.'"

"it's strange because sometimes, i read a book, and i think i am the people in the book."

"lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder."

"it's like he would take a photograph of sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. and he would think that the reason the photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. if i took it, i would know that the only reason it's beautiful is because of sam."

"i love twinkies, and the reason i am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live."

"maybe these are my glory days and i'm not even realizing it because they don't involve a ball."

"After that, I couldn't believe that Sam actually got me a present because I honestly thought the "I love you" was it."

"And I thought that all of those little kids are going to grow up someday. All of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday, but for now, sledding is enough."

"i just wanted the movie to be about uncle Billy because he drank a lot and was fat and lost the money money in the first place. I wanted the angel to come down and show us how uncle Billy's life had meeting. then, I think I'd feel better."

"I laid down on his old bed, and I looked through the window at this tree that was probably a lot shorter when my dad looked at it."

"And I made aunt Helen I promise to only cry about important things because I would hate to think that crying as much as I do would make crying for aunt Helen less than it is."

"I guess what I'm saying is that this all feels very familiar. But it's not mine to be familiar about. I just know that another kid has felt this."

"I don't know how these things happen to me sometimes."

"I like girls. I really do. Because they can think you look good in a bathing suit even when you don't."

"Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons."

"But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time."

"The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories."

"'you can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love.'"

"So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons."