And make sure to check out these and .
1. “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.” – Charlie
2. “Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve.” – Mr. Anderson
3. “I would die for you. But I won’t live for you.” – Charlie
4. “This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story, you are alive.” – Charlie
5. “Let’s go be psychos together.” – Sam
6. “He’s a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.” – Sam
7. “Welcome to the island of misfit toys.” – Sam
8. “I saw this tree, but it was a dragon. Then it was a tree again and it just lied to me.” – Charlie
9. “Oh my God. My life is officially an after-school special.” – Patrick
10. “I’m going to write it down because maybe if I do, I won’t have to think about it. And I won’t get upset.” – Charlie
11. “She kissed me. It was the kind of kiss that I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.” – Charlie
12. “I love Sam. It’s not a movie kind of love either. I just look at her sometimes, and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the world.” – Charlie
13. “Why can’t you save anybody?” – Patrick
14. “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.” – Charlie
15. “It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens, and suddenly, things are back to normal.” – Charlie
16. “It’s great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn’t need a shoulder? What if they need arms or something like that? You can’t just sit there and put everybody’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can’t. You have to do things.” – Sam
17.“It’s much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.” – Charlie
18. “Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we’re nothing?” – Sam
19. “We can try.” – Mr. Anderson
20. “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.” – Dr. Burton
21. “I am very interested and fascinated how people love each other, but no one really likes each other.” – Charlie
22. “Aunt Helen was the only one who hugged me, I remember never saying goodbye to my Aunt Helen.” – Charlie
23. “And there are people who forget what it’s like to be 16 when they turn 17.” – Charlie
24. “I know these will all be stories someday. And our pictures will become old photographs. We’ll all become somebody’s mom or dad. But right now these moments are not stories. This is happening.” – Charlie
25. “Enjoy it. Because it’s happening.” – Stephen
26. “I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn’t try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.” – Charlie
27. “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.” – Charlie
28. “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.” – Sam
29. “Before she left, she hugged me again. Two in one day! I really do love my sister. Especially when she’s nice.” – Charlie
30. “This moment will just be another story someday.” – Charlie
31. “Patrick and Sam didn’t just throw around inside jokes and make me struggle to keep up. Not at all. They asked me questions.” – Charlie
32. “I just couldn’t watch them hurt Patrick even if things weren’t clear just yet.” – Charlie
33. “It would be very nice to have a friend again. I would like that even more than a date.” – Charlie
34. “I just kind of listen and nod because Patrick needs to talk.” – Charlie
35. “I wished I could have made her feel better, but sometimes, I guess you just can’t.” – Charlie
36. “Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific, really. They just knew. And I think that’s all you can ever ask from a friend.” – Charlie
37. “I do consider you a friend, Charlie.” – Mr. Aderson
38. “Then, he started crying. Then, he started talking about Brad. And I just let him. Because that’s what friends are for.” – Charlie
39. “I don’t know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.” – Charlie
40. “There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world is like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” – Charlie
41. “I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.” – Charlie
42. “So, we can be friends again?” – Charlie
43. “Touch my friends again, and I’ll blind you.” – Charlie
44. “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.” – Charlie
45. “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.” – Charlie
46. “I am here, and I am looking at her. And she is so beautiful. I can see it.” – Charlie
47. “You’re not small, you’re beautiful.” – Charlie
48. “Please don’t take this the wrong way. I’m not trying to make you feel uncomfortable. 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.” – Mr. Bill
49. “Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are administered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.” – Charlie
50. “All I cared about was the fact that Sam got really hurt. And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn’t matter.” – Charlie
51. “I moved to the typewriter again, and I wrote something. ‘I love you, too.’” – Charlie
52. “I am really in love with Sam, and it hurts very much.” – Charlie
53. “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. But right now I’m here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do.” – Charlie
54. “I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay?” – Sam
55.“It’s so bad that I keep fantasizing that one of us is dying of , so that I don’t have to break up with her.” – Charlie
56. “Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.” – Mr. Bill
57. “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.” – Charlie
58. “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.” – Charlie
59. “Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.” – Charlie
60. “It’s just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can’t do anything except ‘be there.’ I just want to make him stop hurting, but I can’t. So I just follow him around whenever he wants to show me his world.” – Charlie
61. “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. Maybe that is what makes people ‘participate.’” – Charlie
62. “I think it was the first time in my life I ever felt like I looked ‘good.’ Do you know what I mean? That nice feeling when you look in the mirror, and your hair’s right for the first time in your life? 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.” – Charlie
63. “People who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don’t, nothing will work out the way they want.” – Charlie
64. “And we kept dancing. It was the one time all day that I really wanted the clock to stop. And just be there for a long time.” – Charlie
65. “I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they’re here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It’s like looking at all the students and wondering who’s had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.” – Charlie
66. “I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.” – Charlie
67. “Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.” – Charlie
68. “I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.” – Charlie
69. “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.” – Charlie
70. “I didn’t know that other people thought things about me. I didn’t know that they looked.” – Charlie
71. “I guess I’m pretty emotional.” – Charlie
72. “I don’t know what’s wrong with me. It’s like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.” – Charlie
73. “I put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.” – Charlie
74. “I’m just thinking too fast—much too fast.” – Charlie
75. “I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what’s wrong with me.” – Charlie
76. “I feel like a big faker because I’ve been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.” – Charlie
77. “I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can’t.” – Charlie
78. “To tell you the truth, I’ve just been avoiding everything.” – Charlie
79. “Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why.” – Charlie
80. “As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me.” – Charlie
81. “I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again.” – Charlie
82. “She wasn’t bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.” – Charlie
83. “Charlie, take off your clothes.” – Mary Elizabeth
84. “But you wore that toasty costume. It’s not like it’s or original, you’d hope it would be warm.” – Patrick
85. “Mary Elizabeth is really interesting because she’s a Buddhist and a punk. But somehow she always acts like my father at the end of a long day.” – Charlie
86. “I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren’t memories.” – Charlie
87. “Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it’s no excuse.” – Charlie’s Dad
88. “The problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone and because of that, it discredits people.” – Craig
89. “Try to be a filter, not a sponge.’” – Charlie
90. “Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense, I know that’s wrong because it’s my responsibility, and I know that things get worse before they get better, but this is worse that feels too big.” – Charlie
91. “It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.” – Charlie
92. “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.” – Charlie
93. “If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.” – Charlie
94. “And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.” – Charlie
95. “It’s strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that’s kind of how it felt.” – Charlie
96. “I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.” – Charlie
97. “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.” – Charlie
98. “Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs. I wonder how they feel tonight.” – Charlie
99. “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.” – Charlie
100. “It’s strange the times people choose to be generous.” – Charlie
101. “And all the books you’ve read have been read by other people. And all the songs you’ve loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that’s pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing ‘unity.” – Charlie
102. “I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.” – Charlie
103. “It’s strange to think of your teachers as being people.” – Charlie
104. “Maybe these are my glory days, and I’m not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.” – Charlie
105. “Why don’t I tell them how you got those bruises?” – Patrick
106. “I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think everyone is special in their own way. I really do.” – Charlie
107. “I just think it’s bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees her is better than she actually is. And I think it’s bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera.” – Charlie
108. “We didn’t talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough.” – Charlie
109. “It’s kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real. Well, sometimes I can do that, but I don’t need an hour in front of a mirror. It just happens very fast, and things start to slip away. And I just open my eyes, and I see nothing. And then I start to breathe really hard trying to see something, but I can’t. It doesn’t happen all the time, but when it does, it scares me.” – Charlie
110. “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.” – Charlie
111. “There is this one photograph, that is just beautiful. it would be impossible to describe how beautiful it is, but I’ll try. If you listen to the song ‘Asleep,’ and you think about those pretty weather days that make you remember things, and you think about the prettiest eyes you’ve known, and you cry and the person holds you back, then I think you will see the photograph. ” – Charlie
112. “Maybe he didn’t really encourage me to do things, but he didn’t prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn’t do things because I didn’t want him to think differently about me. But the thing is, I wasn’t being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn’t really even know me?” – Charlie
113. “You take girls, for example. They’re copying their 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.” – Charlie
114. “It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too.” – Charlie
115. “It’s strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.” – Charlie
116. “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!” – Patrick
117. “I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.” – Charlie
118. “Personally, I like to think my brother is having a college experience like they do in the movies. I don’t mean the big fraternity party kind of movie. More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain. I think something like that would be very good for him, especially if the girl were unconventionally beautiful. They are the best kind of girls, I think. I personally find ‘supermodels’ strange. I don’t know why this is.” – Charlie
119. “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.” – Charlie
120. “I’m so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. I really do. I hope you do, too. Okay, then. Goodbye.” – Charlie
121. “Girls are weird, and I don’t mean that offensively. I just can’t put it any other way.” – Charlie
122. “On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.” – Charlie
123. “Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun.” – Charlie
124. “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.” – Charlie
125. “My sister was counting on me, and this was the first time anyone ever counted on me for anything.” – Charlie
126. “A lot of kids at school hate their parents. Some of them got hit. And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives.” – Charlie
127. “Everyone said how much they loved my sister’s speech even if they didn’t.” – Charlie
128. “I just don’t want you to worry about me, or think you’ve met me, or waste your time anymore.” – Charlie
129. “Normally, I am very shy, but Patrick seemed like the kind of guy you could just walk up to at a football game even though you were three years younger and not popular.” – Charlie