The Perks of Being a Wallflower Quotes by Chapter

Dear friend (beginning of every chapter)

Over the summer, [Susan] got a little taller and prettier and grew breasts. Now, she acts a lot dumber in the hallways, especially when boys are around. (1.2.2)

I like to read books twice. (1.3.2)

"You pervert." (1.4.18) (1.10.25)

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. (1.6.48)

Normally I am very shy, but [Patrick] seemed like the kind of guy you could just walk up to at a football game even though you were three years younger and not popular. (1.7.5)

Masturbation is when you rub your genitals together until you have an orgasm. Wow! (1.8.2)

Sam sat down and started laughing. Patrick started laughing. I started laughing. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. (1.10.118)

Patrick said that Brad was pretending to be a lot more stoned than he really was. (2.1.14)

I love Sam. It's not a movie kind of love either. I just look at her sometimes, and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the world. (2.2.9)

I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live. (2.3.2)

[Mary Elizabeth] says that my sister is a tease and a snob. I told her not to say anything like that about my sister again. (2.2.6)

I hope it's the kind of second side [of a mix tape] that [Patrick] can listen to whenever he drives alone and feel like he belongs to something whenever he's sad. (2.7.8)

Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend. (2.10.6)

I'm really glad that Christmas and my birthday are soon because that means they will be over soon because I can already feel myself going to a bad place I used to go. (2.11.4)

Maybe my whole family has been high, and we just don't tell each other these things. (2.12.44)

My aunt Helen drank a lot. My aunt Helen took drugs a lot. My aunt Helen had many problems with men and boys. (2.13.9)

I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. (2.14.9)

Things were worse an hour ago, and I was looking at this tree but it was a dragon and then a tree, and I remembered that one nice pretty weather day when I was part of the air. (2.15.4)

Regardless, I decided to never take LSD again. (3.1.17)

Essentially [LSD] is twelve hours of schizophrenia. (3.2.3)

[Bill] made tea, and I felt like a grown-up. (3.4.2)

The erection made me feel guilty in hindsight though, but I guess it couldn't be helped. (3.5.26)

[Sam] really did look sad, and I wished I could have made her feel better, but sometimes, I guess you just can't. So, I stood alone by the wall and watched the dance for a while. (3.7.17)

Each [cover] had a smiling face, and every time it was a woman on the cover, she was showing her cleavage. (3.8.3)

My father came in and sat on the edge of my bed. He lit a cigarette and started telling me about sex. He gave me this talk a few years before, but it was more biological then. (3.9.17)

I don't know if this is right or not, but it made me sad regardless. Not for Mary Elizabeth. Or for me. Just in general. (3.10.16)

The only advice Bill gave me was to think about [Hamlet] in terms of the other main characters in the books I've read thus far. (3.11.18)

After a week of not talking to anyone, I finally called Bob. [...] He said he had a quarter ounce of pot left. So, I took some of my Easter money and bought it. I've been smoking it all the time si...

I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like. (4.1.16)

I just kind of listen and nod because Patrick needs to talk. (4.4.2)

I just couldn't watch them hurt Patrick even if things weren't clear just yet. (4.3.17)

And I just let [Patrick kiss me]. Because that's what friends are for. (4.4.79)

Patrick and I have been spending a lot of time together. We drink a lot. Actually, it's more like Patrick drinks, and I sip. (4.5.2)

It's strange to think of your teachers as being people. (4.6.8)

I read on the back cover that [Ayn Rand] was born in Russia and came to America when she was young. She barely spoke English, but she wanted to be a great writer. I thought that was very admirable,...

It was a great way to sit alone at a party and still feel a part of things. (4.9.9)

My mom made my favorite [lunch] because I think she knew how sad I would be with everyone gone. (4.10.3)

All I cared about was the fact that Sam got really hurt. And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. (4.12.32)

Everyone said how much they loved my sister's speech even if they didn't. (4.13.60)

I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere. (4.14.11)

I kind of figured out that everything I dreamt about my aunt Helen was true. (Epilogue.4)