Stephanie Perkins Quotes

For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.

~ Stephanie Perkins

I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

~ Stephanie Perkins

I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

~ Stephanie Perkins

I look at you, and I think about you, and ... I don't know. No one has ever confounded me the way you do.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Yes, St. Claire. I like you. But I can't say it aloud, because he's my friend. And friends don't let other friends make drunken declarations and expect them to act upon them the next day

~ Stephanie Perkins

It's become impossible to deny he means something to me.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Phones are distracting. The internet is distracting.The way he looked at you? He wasn't distracted. He was consumed.

~ Stephanie Perkins

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Life isn’t about what you get, it’s about what you DO with what you get.

~ Stephanie Perkins

French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.

~ Stephanie Perkins

I mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It's so Hogwarts. Only mine doesn't have cute boy wizards or magic candy or flying lessons.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Soap?School of America in Paris he explains. SOAP.Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed.

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The only French word I know is oui, which means “yes,” and only recently did I learn it’s spelled o-​u-​i and not w-​e-​e.

~ Stephanie Perkins

St. Clair clears his throat. 'My fiancée and I are headed out for a celebratory dessert. I'd ask you all to join us, but I don't want you there.

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What...what about when I'm married?”“We'll buy a cot. Your husband can sleep on that when he visits.

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Har. Bloody. Har.

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Cricket Bell.” I smiled into my phone. “How did you get so wise?

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If I weren't standing next to your boyfriend, I'd be tempted to ask you out myself.She blushes, and St. Clair bounds inside the box office and wrestles her into a hug. Miiiiiiiiine! he says.Cut it out. Anna pushes him off, laughing. You'll get fired. And then I'll have to support your sorry arse for the rest of our lives.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come.

~ Stephanie Perkins

You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.

~ Stephanie Perkins

St. Clair gets a crush on Anna. He's torn between her and Ellie, and he spends so much time running between them that he hardly has time left for Josh. And the more time that Josh spends alone, the more he realizes how alone he actually is. All of his friends will be gone the next year. Josh grows increasingly antagonistic toward school, which makes Rashmi increasingly antagonistic toward him, which makes him increasingly antagonistic toward her. And she's upset because Elie dropped her as a friend, and Meredith is upset because now St. Clair likes two girls who aren't her, and Anna is upset because St. Clair is leading her on, and then St. Clair's mom gets cancer. It's a freaking soap opera.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Thank you for helping my sister,” he says.I lean forward, mimicking his position. “I’m happy to.”Calliope leans out her window. “STOP FLIRTING AND GET BACK TO WORK.

~ Stephanie Perkins

It's so Hogwarts.

~ Stephanie Perkins

A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

~ Stephanie Perkins

We can’t stop smiling at each other. I can’t believe that adults get to do this every day. And I don’t even mean sex, though it’s wonderful, but things like this. Brushing our teeth at the same sink. Do adults realize how lucky they are? Or do they forget that these small moments are actually small miracles? I don’t want to ever forget.

~ Stephanie Perkins

I have a rule.Elaborate.The statue is still warm from the previous visitors. I ask myself, if the worst happened—if I did get knocked up-would I be embarrassed to tell my child who his father was? If the answer is anywhere even remotely close to yes, then there's no way.He nods slowly. That's a good rule.

~ Stephanie Perkins

It gets worse. Josh tell her that he loves her. She says it back. He touches her. She touches him back. And then they're losing their virginity on the floor of her bedroom beside her pet rabbit, Isis. A rabbit.Josh literally lost his virginity in front of a metaphor for sex.

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And then there's the other thing.The thing I'm trying to ignore. The thing I shouldn't want, the thing I can't have.And he's standing in front of me right now.So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?Screw it. Let the fates d

~ Stephanie Perkins

I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s okay to be a blank canvas. Maybe it’s okay that my future is unknown. And maybe,” I say with another smile, “it’s okay to be inspired by the people who do know their future.

~ Stephanie Perkins

I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Because that's the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don't want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It's mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time.

~ Stephanie Perkins

That’s the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don’t want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It’s mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time.

~ Stephanie Perkins

They blinked in the dusk of the setting sun, a reminder that light was a recurring state.

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I doubted myself, and that made me doubt you. But you weren’t the problem. You were never the problem. I should have trusted you, but I didn’t, because I couldn’t trust myself.

~ Stephanie Perkins

He’s so close, yet so far away.” – Anna

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Confidence, darling. He leans across the table and touches a finger to my cheek. You could learn something from me, you know.

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I just can't fathom why anyone would stand on a ledge when there's a respectable amount of walking space right next to it.

~ Stephanie Perkins

I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium.

~ Stephanie Perkins

..the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don’t want to let it go. Itbecomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs. I wantto nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It’s mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in itsarms and not wake up for a long, long time.

~ Stephanie Perkins

I didn't know it was possible to simultaneously hate and ache for someone.

~ Stephanie Perkins