Imaginary Friend Stephen Chbosky Quotes

Adults are bad at remembering how powerful they can be because somewhere along the line, they were shamed for their imagination.

We can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us.

Some people's fake is more honest than other people's real.

But I’m not afraid anymore because heaven and hell are not destinations. They are decisions.

Never mistake being nice for being weak.

Everyone gets an ending. Whether or not it’s happy is up to them.

Even monsters are adorable when they're little.

Fear is not fear. It is excitement afraid of its own light.

The candle flickered in the wind of the hurricane... Then, the light of one hundred billion stars burned out.

You have to live your life before you get to live your Heaven.

As long as she had that light, there would always be a chance.

Jesus, I am a sinner. I am vain. I am narcissistic. And my biggest sin was that I have been so afraid of You that I never really loved You until this moment. But I’m not afraid anymore because heaven and hell are not destinations. They are decisions.

Un abrazo, una sonrisa, una palabra amable: todos tienen un potencial de cambiar una vida por completo

The power of God was not omniscience. The power of God was not omnipotence. The power of God was love.

What are the two types of people who can see things that aren’t there, Kate? And his quiet whisper of a punch line. Visionaries and psychopaths.

we can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us

She wanted her son to be smart enough to get out of this nightmare, but not smart enough to know that he was actually inside one.

If you fail at your job, you do not blame some outside force. You look right in the mirror and take responsibility. That was the problem with the world. No one took responsibility.

He saw a baby elephant tied to a post with a steel chain. The baby ripped and scratched and tried to get free, but the chain wouldn't break. Then, he saw a grown elephant tied to a post with nothing but a little piece of rope. He asked his mother how the little piece of rope held the big elephant in place. She explained they chain the babies until they give up. The elephants think that little piece of rope is still a chain.

She thought she was getting a sympathetic ear. What she was actually doing was giving the next bastard a trail of bread crumbs as to how much shit she was willing to put up with for what grief convinced her was love.

The shadows were not terrifying. They were the proof that light exists. The fire and brimstone were all a mirage. The clouds nothing but steam inside a bathroom. All he needed to do was wipe away the mirror. He didn't need a key. He was the key.

Pensó que hay un momento en el que se termina la niñez y deseo que ese momento estuviera lejos.

Frecuentemente subestimamos el poder del contacto.

Pero el siempre se esforzo y terminó por convertirse en una gran lector

Sin el, tu mundo está condenado

No todas las heridas dejan huella

cuando llegue el momento, va a romper el cristal entre el mundo imaginario y el tuyo. Y solo sobrevivira un mundo

Les enseñaba a los niños a leer y amar los libros...

Decía que el mundo podía intentar quitártelo todo una y otra vez. Pero que, al final, tenías que entregar tu orgullo.

He was a real man.

Everyone gets an ending. Whether or not it's happy is up to them.

But you have to hear the end of the story - you have to know the wolf doesn't win.

Kate Reese shivered when she realized the sad truth: Even monsters are adorable when they are little.

And when he was lying in the ground next to her, her photographs would be thrown in the trash because her face wouldn’t mean anything to anyone else. He was the last person alive who knew her and loved her.

Selbst Monster waren liebenswert, wenn sie klein waren.

Welche zwei Arten von Menschen sehen Dinge, die es nicht gibt, Kate? Visionäre und Psychotiker.

Unterdrücke deine Angst oder lass dich von ihr verschlingen.

Du bist nicht deshalb mächtig, weil du stark bist, Christopher. Du bist mächtig, weil du gut bist.

To kill in the name of God is to serve the Devil.

Todas as pessoas têm direito a um final. Se é feliz ou não, é da sua responsabilidade.

O medo não é medo. É excitação receosa da sua própria luz.

Good guys win the war.

Fear is not fear. It is excitement afraid of its own light

Honesty is the best policy.

Some people’s fake is more honest than other people’s real.

Hundreds of babies who were born to hundreds of parents. Every one of them the hero of their own life.

she went home and spent the rest of the day feeling possible.

Even monsters are adorable when they are little.

Good guys win wars.

Mary Katherine had no way of understanding that her mother was not upset at her seventeen-year-old daughter because she was too relieved that the seventeen-week-old daughter that she remembered nursing hadn’t died in that car accident last night. She had no way of knowing that no matter how big children feel, they will always look smaller to their parents.