The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky. It was first published by Pocket Books on February 1, 1999.
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Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie, an introverted teenager, through his freshman year of high school in a Pittsburgh suburb.
Death was walking toward a city one morning.
A man asked, “What are you going to do there?”
This girl I was seeing. We had conflicting attitudes. I really wasn't into meditating and she wasn't really into being alive. - Stephen Wright
Caterpillar: Who… are… you?
Alice: Why, I hardly know, sir.
I’ve changed so much since this morning, you see.
The wife of a man became very sick. On her deathbed, she said to him,
'I love you so much! I don’t want to leave you, and I don’t want you to betray me. Promise that you will not see any other women once I die, or I will come back to haunt you.
August 4, 2007
Dear Scott,
I’ve been busy the past few weeks looking for a house that I’d planned to buy and live in with my girlfriend. But it all fell apart last weekend when I decided that the house was just one more thing that wouldn’t make me happy and I’d have to put off a long retreat even further.
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