I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didnโt mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.
Stephen ChboskyHe was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying.
Stephen ChboskyAs I was walking up the stairs to dad's old room, and I was looking at the photographs, I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories. That someone actually took the photograph, and the people in the photograph had just eaten lunch or something.
Stephen Chbosky