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I think about all this sometimes when I’m watching a football game with Patrick and Sam. I 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.Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I always wanted to be on a sports team like that. I’m not exactly sure why, but I always thought it would be fun to have “glory days.” Then, I would have stories to tell my children and golf buddies. I guess I could tell people about Punk Rocky and walking home from school and things like that. Maybe these are my glory days, and I’m not even realizing it because they don’t involve a ball.
Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I want Sam to stop liking Craig.
Now, I guess maybe you think that’s because I am jealous of him. I’m not. Honest. It’s just that Craig doesn’t really listen to her when she talks. I don’t mean that he’s a bad guy because he’s not. It’s just that he always looks distracted.
It’s like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. If I took it, I would know that the only reason it’s beautiful is because of Sam.
I just think it’s bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is. And I think it’s bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera. It’s very hard for me to see Sam feel better about herself just because an older boy sees her that way.Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I didn’t know that other people thought things about me. I didn’t know that they looked
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“I feel infinite.”
And Sam and Patrick looked at me like I said the greatest thing they ever heard. Because the song was that great and because we all really paid attention to it. Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way. I have since bought the record, and I would tell you what it was, but truthfully, it’s not the same unless you’re driving to your first real party, and you’re sitting in the middle seat of a pickup with two nice people when it starts to rain.Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The next day at the homecoming dance, I saw them dancing together. Dave and his girl. And I got really mad. It kind of scared me how mad I got. I thought about walking up to Dave and really hurting him like maybe I should have really hurt Sean. And I think I would have, but Sam saw me and put her arm around my shoulder like she does. She calmed me down, and I guess I’m glad she did because I think I would have gotten even madder if I had started hitting Dave, and his girl stopped me because she loved him. I think I would have gotten even madder about that.
Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I wasn’t raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much. I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven’t let Him down regardless.
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“I hate you.”
My sister said it different than she said it to my dad, she meant it with me. She really did.
“I love you,” was all I could say in return.Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve.”
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“Do you always think this much, Charlie?”
“Is that bad?”
“Not necessarily. It’s just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”
“Is that bad?”
“Yes”Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You know… a lot of kids at school hate their parents. Some of them got hit. And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives. Some of them were trophies for their parents to show the neighbors like ribbons or gold stars. And some of them just wanted to drink in peace.
For me personally, as much as I don’t understand my mom and dad and as much as I feel sorry for both of them sometimes, I can’t help but love them so much. My mom drives to visit the cemetary of people she loves. My dad cried during M*A*S*H, and trusted me to keep his secret, and let me sit on his lap, and called me “champ.”Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I think it’s nice for stars to do interviews to make us think they are just like us, but to tell you the truth, I get the feeling that it’s all a big lie. The problem is I don’t know who’s lying. And I don’t know why these magazines sell as much as they do. And I don’t know why the ladies in the dentist’s office like them as much as they do.
…The fact that one of these ladies was my mom made me feel particularly sad because my mom is beautiful. And she’s always on a diet. Sometimes, my dad calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear him.Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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.
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“I would not hesitate to say that those who pass for thinkers on this earth, for men of subtle reasoning, are guilty of being the greatest fools. For no one in this life of ours knows happiness.” Messenger
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“One that is mortal must bear adversity with a patient heart.” Tutor
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“When passions come upon men in strength beyond due measure, their gift is neither one of glory nor of greatness.
…May I know the blessing of a heart that is not passion’s slave; no fairer gift can the gods bestow.” ChorusSpeaker: EurpiidesPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 12:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“There should have been some other means for mankind to reproduce itself, without the need of a female sex; this would rid the world of all its troubles.” Jason
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“Ah, the loves of mortal men! What a boundless source of woe!” Medea
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“…Wrong a woman in love and nothing on earth has a heart more murderous.” Medea
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“The discipline,” repeated Jubal. “That’s what I like. The faith I was reared in didn’t require anybody to know anything. Just confess and be saved, and there you were, safe in the arms of Jesus. A man might be too stupid to count sheep… yet conclusively presumed to be one of God’s elect, guaranteed an eternity of bliss, because he had been 'converted.’ he might not even be a Bible student and certainly didn’t have to know anything else. This church doesn’t accept 'conversion’ as I grok it-”
“You grok correctly.”
“A person must start with a willingness to learn and follow it with long, hard study. I grok that is salutary.”
“More than salutary,” agreed Sam. “Indispensable. The concepts can’t be thought about without the language, and the discipline that results in this horn-of-plenty of benefits – from how to live without fighting to how to please your wife – all derive from conceptual logic… understanding who you are, why you’re here, how you tick – and behaving accordingly. Happiness is functioning the way a being is organized to function.”Speaker: Robert HeinleinPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 12:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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