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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.


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STEPHEN KING When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ...
STEPHEN FRY You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of ...
STEPHEN RICHARDS Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.
STEPHEN RICHARDS If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t...
STEPHEN KING We accept the love we think we deserve.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with som...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't sto...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. An...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain,...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough
STEPHEN CHBOSKY He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Enjoy it. Because it's happening.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY This moment will just be another story someday.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the re...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each othe...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it "Chops"...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY