T. J. Perkins Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Har. Bloody. Har.

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

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have a pretty good sense of comic thing, so I'd really like to try that.

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

Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.

Yielding to God's will can be hard. And sometimes, it really hurts. But it always brings peace.

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

This is what we had become, after the first symbiotic year of our living together: a couple who needed another couple to be around.

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.

It's so Hogwarts.

Jesus Christ, it's like living with Stevie bloody Nicks, ' I said, 'only without the cocaine, which would be more fun.

Frightfully pale and perpetually odd

This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered...

Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.

the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed

[The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.

John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.

I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

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

Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, - to dress and entertain, and order things

One never knows when one is going to get ambushed into learning something.

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

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.

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

A good story makes a journey go by more quickly. A really good story makes you forget you are even on a journey.

Step and land, step and land. That's all travel was. Throw in some running and a change of scenery. No big deal, right? And so, off he went. Off they went together.

Who can see twenty-five years into the future?” she had asked. “Your guess is as good as theirs. Confidence is everything.

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

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.

Why choose the lesser evil anyway, when the greater evil is usually higher quality and will last longer before it breaks?

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

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

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

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

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.

And we're finally home.

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

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

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

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

Lenny’s face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.