Stephanie Perkins quotes:

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

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

  • I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [...]

  • 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

  • If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.

  • A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

  • 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.

  • We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here," I whisper."Are you getting your ax?""Handcuffs.""Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it.

  • Cricket Bell.I smiled into my phone. How did you get so wise~?

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Boys turns girls into such idiots.

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

  • The feeling is that we have everything to say. And where do you begin with everything?

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

  • I've always felt lucky to live someplace where snow is rare, you know? It's rareness that makes it so speacial.

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

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

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

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

  • 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 lunges. 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.

  • Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they're more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within the story.

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

  • How could I have ever for a moment believed I wasn't in love with him?

  • How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?

  • I am hard on myself. But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself?

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

  • I don't understand why things always go from perfect to weird with us. It's like we're incapable of normal human interaction.

  • I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.

  • 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."

  • I wish for the thing that is best for me.

  • I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.

  • I wish the world would swallow us here, whole, in this moment. And that's when it hits me that this - this - is falling in love.

  • I'm not interested in making what's easy. I'm interested in making what's beautiful.

  • It's ridiculous how difficult a question can be when the answer means so much.

  • Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.

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

  • My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.

  • Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.

  • Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.

  • 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?

  • There are some people in life that you can't get over.

  • Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.

  • What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice.

  • What'd I tell you about musicians? That bad boy type will only break your heart.

  • Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?

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

  • You read a lot. - Safer than going on a real adventure

  • You should show encouragement whenever you can. People try harder when they know that someone cares about them.

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