February 2012
21 posts
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“I am starting to see a real trend in the kind of books Bill gives me to read....”
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“And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.”
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“When I do ride the bus, I usually sit toward the middle because I’ve heard...”
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“I just listened to the music, and breathed in the day, and remembered things....”
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“And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you...”
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Sam: Charlie has a Charlie-esque crush on me, Patrick.
Patrick: He does, huh?
Charlie: I'm trying not to.
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“Sam and Patrick both agreed I looked handsome. Mary Elizabeth smiled. I think it...”
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"How old are you, Charlie?"
"Fifteen."
"What do you want to do when you grow up?"
"I don't know just yet."
"What's your favorite band?"
"I think maybe the Smiths because I love their song 'Asleep,' but I'm really not sure one way or the other because I don't know any other songs by them too well."
"What's your favorite movie?"
"I don't know really. They're all the same to me."
"How about your favorite book?"
"This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald."
"Why?"
"Because it was the last one I read."
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“I love Twinkies, and the reason I’m saying that is because we are all...”
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“It’s just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”
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“It’s strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people...”
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“For me personally, as much as I don’t understand my mom and dad and as...”
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"But I love him!" I had never seen my sister cry that much.
"No, you don't."
"I hate you!"
"No, you don't." My dad can be very calm sometimes.
"He's my whole world."
"Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me." That was my mom.
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“So, what’s the point of using words nobody else knows or can say...”
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“I just think it’s bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way...”
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“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and...”
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“And we kept dancing. It was the one time all day that I really wanted the clock...”
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“I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers...”
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January 2012
20 posts
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“And all the books you’ve read have been read by other people. And all the songs...”
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“I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a...”
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“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a...”
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“And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a...”
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“I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m...”
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“Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.”
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“Please believe that things are good with me, and even when they’re not, they...”
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“She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just...”
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“It’s kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your...”
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“I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my...”
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“And the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.”
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“Then I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head...”
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foreverflieg asked: love this blog and i love this book. reading it for the 3rd time now! keeep up the goood work(: i love it
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“I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands… I need...”
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“Maybe it’s good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that...”
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“It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally....”
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“And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.”
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“It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.”
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“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won’t tell them...”
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December 2011
12 posts
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“I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one...”
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“This moment will just be another story someday.”
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“Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.”
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Absolutely Nothing
Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poem And he called it “Chops” because that was the name of his dog And that’s what it was all about And his teacher gave him an A and a gold star And his mother hung it on the kitchen door and read it to his aunts That was the year Father Tracy took all the kids to the zoo And he let them sing on the bus And...
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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
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“I would die for you. But I won’t live for you.”
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“You can’t just sit there and put everybody’s lives ahead of yours and think that...”
– Sam, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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One Winter
Asleep - The Smiths
Vapour Trail - Ride
Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkel
A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum
Time of No Reply - Nick Drake
Dear Prudence - The Beatles
Gypsy - Suzanne Vega
Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
Daydream - Smashing Pumpkins
Dusk - Genesis
MLK - U2
Blackbird - The Beatles
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
Asleep - The Smiths
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“There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the...”
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