I’m 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.
— The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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.
— The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Charlie’s Favorite Books
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Peter Pan byJ. M. Barrie
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Sam and Patrick both agreed I looked handsome. Mary Elizabeth smiled. 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.
— The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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"How old are you, Charlie?"
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"Fifteen."
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"What do you want to do when you grow up?"
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"I don't know just yet."
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"What's your favorite band?"
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"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."
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"What's your favorite movie?"
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"I don't know really. They're all the same to me."
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"How about your favorite book?"
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"This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald."
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"Why?"
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"Because it was the last one I read."
So, what’s the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don’t understand that.
— The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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.
— The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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.
— The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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.
— The Perks of Being a Wallflower
And the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.
— The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Then I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
— The Perks of Being a Wallflower
I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands… I need to know that these people exist.
— The Perks of Being a Wallflower
I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won’t tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn’t change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have.
— The Perks of Being a Wallflower
