After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.
Stephen ChboskyI just want you to know that youโre very specialโฆ and the only reason Iโm telling you is that I donโt know if anyone else ever has.
Stephen ChboskyI look at the field, and I think about the boy who just made the touchdown. I think that these are the glory days for that boy, and this moment will just be another story someday because all the people who make touchdowns and home runs will become somebody's dad. And when his children look at his yearbook photograph, they will think that their dad was rugged and handsome and looked a lot happier than they are. 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.
Stephen ChboskyHe realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.
Stephen ChboskyI didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial that advertised an exercise machine. They kept flashing a 1-800 number, so I called it. The woman who picked up the other end of the phone was named Michelle. And I told Michelle that I was a kid and did not need an exercise machine, but I hoped she was having a good night. That's when Michelle hung up on me. And I didn't mind a bit.
Stephen ChboskyAnd when she started becoming a โyoung lady,โ and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was fat. And how she really wasnโt fat. And how she was actually very pretty. And how different her face looked when she realized boys thought she was pretty. And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy. I wondered how her face would look when she came out from behind those doors.
Stephen Chbosky