Stephanie Perkins Quotes

Some of us wear our hearts. Some of us carry them.

~ Stephanie Perkins

I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. Is this okay? I whisper. Are you okay?His reply is anguished. Honest. I love you.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?

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I mean . . . I don't know. I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. I don't know. I like reading about adventure, sure, but I also like doing it from the safety of home. But what is home, besides a quilt-covered bed? Where is it?

~ Stephanie Perkins

How could I wish for it for so long, only to come back and find it gone. To be here, in my technical house, and discover that home is now someplace different.

~ Stephanie Perkins

But that's not quite right either.I miss Paris, but it's not home. It's more like... I miss this. This warmth over the telephone. Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place? Bridgette used to be home to me. Maybe St. Clair is my new home.I mull this over as our voices grow tired and we stop talking. We just keep each other company. My breath. His breath. My breath. His breath.I could never tell him, but it's true.This is home. The two of us.

~ Stephanie Perkins

And we're finally home.

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I'm just as big a fool as the rest of them.

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I said you were beautiful. I slept in your bed!

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You're the most incredible girl I've ever known. You're gorgeous and smart, and you make me laugh like no-one else can. And I can talk to you. And I know after all this I don't deserve you, but what I'm trying to say is that I love you, Anna. Very Much.

~ Stephanie Perkins

He's exasperated. I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

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The directness of her question throws me. I don't know. Sometimes I think there are only so many opportunities...to get together with someone. And we've both screwed up so many times- my voice grows quiet - that we've missed our chance.Anna. Mer pauses. That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.But—But what? You love him, and he loves you, and you live in the most romantic city in the world.

~ Stephanie Perkins

The way he looked at you? He wasn’t distracted. He was consumed.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Finally, I laugh. Genuine and normal sounding. And then my date says the best thing that he couldpossibly say: “It’s okay. I haven’t been on one of these [dates] in a while either.”My smile triples in size.Josh grins. “Just give me your hand.”“W–what?”“Your hand,” he repeats. “Give it to me.”I extend my shaking right hand. And – in a moment that is a hundred dreams come true – JoshuaWasserstein laces his fingers through mine. A staggering shock of energy shoots straight into myveins. Straight into my heart.“There,” he says. “I’ve been waiting a long time to do that.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Suddenly I register that St. Clair is shorter than Josh. Much shorter. It’s odd I didn’t notice earlier, but he doesn’t carry himself like a short guy. Most are shy or defensive, or some messed-up combination of the two, but St. Clair is confident and friendly and—

~ Stephanie Perkins

Andy once clipped a magazine article about how black dogs are always the last to be adopted at shelters and, therefore, more likely to be put down. Which is totally Dog Racism, if you ask me.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.

~ Stephanie Perkins

So why did he do it?Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. For the same reason everyone makes mistakes. He fell in love.

~ Stephanie Perkins

So why did he do it?Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. For the same reason everyone makes mistake. He fell in love.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Well, bloody noses. I hug his coat tighter. Those are definitely hot.

~ Stephanie Perkins

I get out of the car, and I'm blasted by the stench of body odor. Cricket is beside me, and he's talking, but his words don't reach my ears.Because it's my mother.Smelling.On my porch.

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I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. It's like everyone else has their entire future mapped out except for me.

~ Stephanie Perkins

I told him your loins were clearly burning, and he should man up and make a move.You did

~ Stephanie Perkins

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

~ Stephanie Perkins

I don't care about anything. But I care about you.

~ Stephanie Perkins

To: Anna Oliphant From: Étienne St. Clair Subject: So . . . Does that mean I can call you now?

~ Stephanie Perkins

Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.

~ Stephanie Perkins

I spent the period reading the first novel assigned for English. And wow. If I hadn't realized I was in France yet, I do now. Because Like Water for Chocolate has sex in it. LOTS of sex.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Autumn is coming. For as long as I can remember, I've talked to the moon. Asked her for her guidance. There's something deeply spiritual about her waxing and waning. She wears a new dress every evening, yet she's always herself.And she's always there.

~ Stephanie Perkins

We've stopped in front of Notre-Dame again. I point at the familiar star and clear my throat. Wanna make another wish?You go first. He's watching me, puzzled, like he's trying to figure something out. He bites his thumbnail.This time I can't help it. All day long, I've thought about it. Him. Our s

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We'll be together. We both got our Point Zéro wishes — each other. He said he wished for me every time. He was wishing for me when I entered the tower.

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A moment of reserve. That was it? The whole story?Yes. God, you're right. That was pants.I sidestep another aggressive couscous vendor. Pants?Rubbish. Crap. S

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Crushes are so awful. I wonder if they suck worse for the crush-er or the crush-ee. I consider my three years of watching Josh from afar. Yeah, definitely the crush-er.

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Okay, I've lied to him. But you saw how jealous he gets. It makes me feel like I have to. And I shouldn't defend my right to be friends with another guy.

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Do adults realize how lucky they are?

~ Stephanie Perkins

He snuffles. Oh, no.He's not going to cry, is he? Because even though it's sweet when guys cry, I am so not prepared for this.Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.

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Hot. I’ve been upgraded to hot.No one has ever called me hot. Cute? Yes. Adorable? yes, often and it makes me want to punch them. I didn’t know short girls could even be hot. I thought I’d been permanently relegated to elfin-pixie-child status.

~ Stephanie Perkins

And then I turn another corner, and my chest constricts so tightly, so painfully, that I can no longer breathe.Because there he is.He's engrossed in an oversize book, hunched over and completely absorbed. A breeze ruffles his dark hair, and he bites his nails. . . . Several other people are soaking up the rare sunshine, but as soon as they're registered, they're forgotten. Because of him.I grip the edge of a sidewalk café table to keep from falling. The diners stare in alarm, but I don't care. I'm reeling, and I gasp for air.How can I have been so stupid?How could I have ever for a moment believed I wasn't in love with him?

~ Stephanie Perkins

And then this — the moment he calls my name — is the real moment everything changes.He is no longer St. Clair, everyone's pal, everyone's f

~ Stephanie Perkins

You’ve crafted this bored veneer, but you’re always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter.

~ Stephanie Perkins