The outside lights were on, and it was snowing, and it looked like magic. Like we were somewhere else. Like we were someplace better.
Stephen ChboskyI don't know what I'm supposed to do now. I know other people have it a lot worse. I do know that, but it's crashing in anyway, and I just can't stop thinking that the little kid eating french fries with his mom in the shopping mall is going to grow up and my sister.
Stephen ChboskyAnd I never felt that good in my life. But I also felt bad because I saw her naked without her permission.
Stephen ChboskyI think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people "participate.
Stephen ChboskyI 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.
Stephen Chbosky