I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the unique value of an individual and the importance of recognizing their worth.
Stephen Chbosky's quote emphasizes the importance of acknowledging someone's special qualities and the impact that recognition can have on their self-worth. It suggests that often, people may not hear affirmations of their uniqueness, making it crucial for someone to express these feelings, especially when they are sincere and heartfelt.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-worth, one could reference this quote.
"I hate you." My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me.She really did. "I love you," was all I could say in return. "You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." "I'm trying not to be.” Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.
So, I looked up, and we were in this giant dome like a glass snowball, and Mark said that the amazing white stars were really only holes in the black glass of the dome, and when you went to heaven, the glass broke away, and there was nothing but a whole sheet of star white, which is brighter than anything but doesn't hurt your eyes. It was vast and open and thinly quiet, and I felt so small.
If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.
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. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.
So, tomorrow, I’m leaving. And I’m not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is.
No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.
When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.
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