Perks

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

* ”You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”

* “I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again”

* “Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I’ve been watching cable television and eating jello”

* “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. Well, sometimes, I can do that, but I don’t need an hour in front of a mirror. It just happens very fast, and things start to slip away. And I just open my eyes, and I see nothing. And then I start to breathe really hard trying to see something, but I can’t. It doesn’t happen all the time, but when it does, it scares me.”

* “We accept the love we think we deserve.”

* “I hate you.”
My sister said it different than she did to my dad. She meant it with me. She really did.
“I love you,” was all I could say in return.
“You’re a freak, you know that? You’ve always been a freak. Everyone says so. They always have.”
“I’m trying not to be.”

* “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”