Perks of Being A Wallflower

 

I got the pleasure of reading this book for about 3 days. I've heard of this book years ago but only got to download it several weeks back. It was written in profound simplicity and that's precisely why I liked it. Like in any other beautiful book, there were lines which I thought were so straight-forward and honest, that I suddenly tell myself 'Oo nga noh, why haven't I thought of that,' or 'Aww that's cute. And true.' Mga ganung mini-realizations ba. :D Some of them, I saw in Tumblr way back, some I found out for myself. They were all Charlie's words.:

• The greatest thing about this story is that every time my dad tells it, it never changes. He's not one to exaggerate. 

• First, I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other. (on relatives)

• I don't know if that's good or bad. I don't know if it's better to have your kids be happy and not go to college. I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure she has a better life than you do. I just don't know. (on his grandfather and mother)

• 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. 

• It's much easier not to know things sometimes. 

• Not because she's a bad person or shallow or mean. But because things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. (on Susan, I think)

• I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. 

• She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. (on Sam, his first love)

• The inside joke weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. (on his friends)

• I miss him terribly, which is strange, because we never really talked much when he was here. (on his brother)
• And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.
• 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.

others:

Bill: Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve. 

Patrick: You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand. 

PS: And I have to give Charlie a high-five (if only I was there when things were happening huhu) when he said that every time he finishes a book, it immediately becomes his favorite and that he gets himself a new favorite when he finishes another. That's very me. Haha.