Perks of Being a Wallflower Quotes (2012)

We accept the love we think we deserve.

He begins every night really excited. He always says he feels free, and tonight is his destiny. But after a while, he runs out of things to keep himself numb. … the words leave him, and we can see how sad he really is.

I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.

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

There’s nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for all the right reasons.

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

C’mon. Lets go be psychos together!

Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.

You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand. You’re a wallflower.

Woo! C minus baby! I am below average!

You can’t just sit there and put everybody’s lives ahead of yours and think it counts as love.

We accept the love we think we deserve.

Right now we are alive and in this moment. I swear we are infinite.

High school? Bullshit. The cafeteria is called the Nutrition Center; people wear their letter jackets even when it’s 98 degrees out. And why do they give out letter jackets to marching band? It’s not a sport. We all knows it.

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

This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive, and you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song and that drive with the people you love most in this world. And in this moment I swear, we are infinite.

You’re not small, you’re beautiful

Patrick: How’s your first relationship going?
Charlie: It’s so bad, that I keep fantasizing that one of us is dying of cancer, so that I don’t have to break up with her

I know we’ll all become somebody-we’ll all become old photographs and we’ll all become somebody’s mom and dad. Right now these moments are not stories, this is happening. I’m here and I’m looking at her. And she is so beautiful.

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. and maybe we’ll never know most of them. but even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. we can still do things. and we can try to feel okay about them.

Charlie, I dare you to kiss the prettiest girl in the room on the lips. And notice, I deliberately said girl and not person cause, let’s face it, I’d smoke all of you bitches!

You put the ass in class.

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 could that be.

I saw this tree, then it was a dragon, then it was a tree again…it tricked me.

I don’t know if I will have the time to write any more 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.

You could write about us. Call it Slut and the Falcon, make us solve crimes.

BE AGGRESSIVE, PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE!

Mr. Anderson: You know, they say if you make one friend on your first day, you’re doing okay.
Charlie: If my English teacher is the only friend I make today, that would be sorta depressing.

Dear Friend, I haven’t really talked to anyone outside of my family all summer, but tomorrow is my first day and… I really want to turn things around this year.

I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And 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 think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn’t.

You can’t just sit there and put everyone’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can’t. You have to do things.

Welcome to the island of misfit toys.

Oh, my God. My life is officially an after school special.

Sam: How do you feel, Charlie?
Charlie: I just really want a milkshake.

Sam: Charlie, I know that you know that I like Craig. But I want to forget about all that for a minute, okay?
Charlie: Okay.
Sam: I just want to make sure that the first person who kisses you loves you. Okay? [They kiss] I love you, Charlie.
Charlie: I love you, too.