john amato

i just finished reading the perks of being a wallflower again. it’s my favorite book. no matter what’s going on in my life, it seems to calm me down. i’ve probably read it over half a dozen times by now. this is my second time in the last two months.

when i read i like to write down my favorite quotes from the book. this time, quotes i usually wouldn’t notice were more significant to me. i’ve decided, for some reason, to share them with you:

and i want you to know that i am both happy and sad and i’m trying to figure out how that could be. p 2

as much as i feel sad, i think that not knowing is what really bothers me. p 4

we accept the love we think we deserve. p 24

not everyone has  a sob story, charlie, and even if they do, it’s no excuse. p 28

i am really in love with sam, and it hurts very much. p 49

i honestly don’t know what my dad does. p 53

i am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other. p 56

i just know that another kid has felt this. p 95

she really did look sad, and i wished i could have made her feel better, but sometimes, i guess you just can’t. p 115

girls are weird, and i don’t mean that offensively. i just can’t put it any other way. p 122

she also said that people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don’t, nothing will work the way they want. p 130

something really is wrong with me. and i don’t know what it is. p 137

and it can’t be like it was. and i wasn’t ready to say good-bye just yet. p 142

but because things change. and friends leave. and life doesn’t stop for anybody. p 145

but it was a hopeful kind of sad. the kind of sad that just takes time. p 198

but it’s okay to feel things. and be who you are about them. p 212

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they’re not, they will be soon enough. p 213