Stephen Chbosky Quotes

The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It's a real emotional ride.

I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships.

I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

I was having a bit of trouble. I wasn't in a good relationship. Or I was in too many bad relationships. I had so many girlfriends at that point. None of them seemed to care they weren't pleasing me very much. I was obviously in with the wrong group.

Right then, it didn't matter what his reasons were. All I knew that I was sick of him breaking my heart.

I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.

I've got a string of disastrous relationships behind me. I don't think I'm an easy person to live with.

I've been married four times and caused a great deal of hurt and upset around me.

Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

I am terrible at relationships.

I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

I think most people have experienced that at some point: being on one end or the other of a super-unbalanced relationship.

If you're really looking to hurt somebody's feelings, just break up with them.

In my teenage years, there was a lot of angst going on.

Dating in college and dating in Hollywood are actually really similar in that the relationships don't last long. Other than that, lots of people in Hollywood tend to be narcissistic, and it's hard to have a relationship with someone like that.

At the end of the day, a divorce is a divorce, and a break-up is a break-up. They are essentially small matters of the heart. They are human stories.

I've had the worst relationships because with touring it's impossible.

The dynamic of how women and men are meant to interact, for those of us who are looking for a heterosexual relationship, is very broken, and it leads to a lot of really dysfunctional relationships, abusive and otherwise.

It's hard to focus on a fight when your heart is broken and you're not happy in your relationship, especially if that's your coach. That's like fighting without one leg.

I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!

We've all had our share of relationships failed.

When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.

You’re going to leave me, aren’t you? … You’ve had enough of me, haven’t you? You’re probably so tired of all this crying and all these moods, and I’ve got to tell you, so am I. So am I. Sometimes it seems like my mind has a mind of its own, like I just get hysterical, like it’s something I can’t control at all. And I don’t know what to do, and I feel so sorry for you because you don’t know what to do either. And I’m sure you’re going to leave me now.