Stephanie Perkins Quotes

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.

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

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

It's so Hogwarts.

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.

That guys. Sideburns. You like him?"My back squirms. "You've asked me that before.""What I meant was, " he says, flustered. "Your feelings haven't changed? Since you've been

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

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

Har. Bloody. Har.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

He closes his eyes.Our lips brush lightly."If you ask me to kiss you, I will, " he says.His fingers stroke the inside of my wrists, and I burst into flames."Kiss me, " I say.He does.

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

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

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

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

And we're finally home.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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