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Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come. -- Stephanie Perkins
He shakes his head. His dark messy hair has a few curls in it today.It's quite breathtaking,really.If there were an Olympics competition in hair, St. Clair would totally win,hands down. Ten-point-oh.Gold medal. -- Stephanie Perkins
What just happened?"
"Your father invited the former love of your life in for pie."
"Yeah, that's what I thought. -- Stephanie Perkins
It's amazing how clothing affects how people see - or don't see - you. -- Stephanie Perkins
Some people are finicky about going to the theater alone, but I'm not. Because when the lights go down, the only relationship left in the room is the one between the movie and me. -- 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
You'll come home soon?" I ask.
The question makes him smile. "Promise you won't forget me while I'm gone?"
I smile back. "I promise."
And as I walk away, I realize that I have no idea how I'll manage to stop thinking about him. -- Stephanie Perkins
French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused. -- Stephanie Perkins
Foomp! My inner fire ignites. -- Stephanie Perkins
I risk a glance, and St. Clair stares back. Deeply. He has not looked at me like this before. I turn away first, then feel him turn a few beats later.
I know he is smiling, and my heart races. -- Stephanie Perkins
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
I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium. -- Stephanie Perkins
I don't care what he thinks. Only what you think." He holds me tighter. "Like if you think I need to stop biting my nails."
"You've worn your pinkies to nubs," I say cheerfully.
"Or if I need to start ironing my bed spread."
"I DO NOT IRON MY BED SPREAD."
"You do. And I love it. -- Stephanie Perkins
I collapse in bed and fall asleep with me other hand clasped around the blue rubber band. And I dream about blue eyes and blue nails and first-kiss lips dusted with blue sugar crystals. -- Stephanie Perkins
I love it when he cocks an eyebrow whenever I say something he finds clever or amusing.
I love listening to his boots clomp across my bedroom ceiling.
I love that the accent over his first name is called an acute accent, and that he has a cute accent. -- Stephanie Perkins
I dream about reaching across the backseat and touching his hand. Just one hand. It closes slowly, tightly around mine, and the sensation of his skin against mine is astounding. I've never felt anything like it before. -- Stephanie Perkins
There's nothing like being openly stared at by an attractive member of the opposite sex to make me feel as if all of my limbs were in the wrong place. -- Stephanie Perkins
North whipped around to stare at her. For a moment, his expression was ureadable. And then ... he smiled. It was warm-unexpectedly warm-and it made Marigold feel the teensiest bit calmer. -- Stephanie Perkins
Marigold wondered if that were true. It was nice to think that she might have a superpower, even a dumb one, hidden inside of her. What might it be? -- Stephanie Perkins
But ... she didn't know him, did she? Marigold was suddenly struck by how badly she wanted to know him. -- Stephanie Perkins
I said you were beautiful. I slept in your bed! -- Stephanie Perkins
I thought I did." Josh stares out over the city. "And then I knew I didn't, and she knew she didn't, but we stayed together, because ... I don't know why. Maybe because we thought we should be in love. At least I did. I wanted to be in love." He looks back at me. "Have you ever been in love? -- Stephanie Perkins
But he's grinning at her. She grins back. "You've made quite the new best friend," I say. His expression turns to regret. "Children do have questionable taste." I laugh. It's the first time I can remember laughing this week. -- Stephanie Perkins
Callipygian. Having shapely buttocks. Nice one, Bridge. -- Stephanie Perkins
No, I don't love Max anymore. But I don't want to give you this broken, empty me. I want you to have me when I'm full, when I can give something back to you. I don't have much to give right now. -- Stephanie Perkins
Please. The boy gets a boner every time you walk into the room.
My eyes pop back open. Does she mean that figuratively or has she actually seen something? No. Focus, Anna. -- Stephanie Perkins
- and I've clearly freaked you out, and I'm totally mortified, and now I'm going to stop talking, she said. And now I'm going to die. -- Stephanie Perkins
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. -- Stephanie Perkins
Anna: You really think he likes me?
Rashmi: Anna. He teases you all the time. It's classic boy-pulling-girl's-pigtail syndrome. And whenever anyone else even remotely does it, he always takes your side and tells them to shove it. -- Stephanie Perkins
History books are filled with lies. Whoever wins the war tells the story. -- Stephanie Perkins
And even though he doesn't mean it like I-want-to-leave-my-girlfriend-and-start-dating-you cute, something flickers inside of me. The "force of strength and destruction" Tita de la Garza knew so well. -- Stephanie Perkins
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home. -- Stephanie Perkins
My voice grows even smaller. 'Because I thought no one could love me.'
'And why did you think that?'
'Because I didn't think I was worth loving. -- Stephanie Perkins
I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [ ... ] -- Stephanie Perkins
How does one proceed in a situation like this? If only the discovery of mutual admiration could lead promptly into making out. If only I could say, 'Listen. I like you, and you like me, so let's go find a secluded park and touch each other. -- Stephanie Perkins
I didn't know it was possible to simultaneously hate and ache for someone. -- Stephanie Perkins
She kissed his lips then. They tasted of apples and cheese, of the revelation of things you never imagined going so well together. She tasted meting ice cream, too, melting defenses, herself melting into Russell. -- Stephanie Perkins
And for the first time since coming home, i'm completely happy. It's strange. Home ... to be here, in my technical house, and discover now someplace different ... Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place? ... For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person. And we're finally home. -- Stephanie Perkins
Put this on your list of things to know: the combination of tinsel, baby angel wings, and manger hay burns like weed at a Miley Cyrus concert. -- Stephanie Perkins
I don't want to feel this way around him. I want things to be normal. I want to be his friend, not another stupid girl holding out for something that will never happen. -- Stephanie Perkins
My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird. -- Stephanie Perkins
Love can be so sttange and sad. It can be hard to understand why we run toward certain people and away from others at different times in our lives. Why we search so hard for that thing we are looking for, and the run so fast when we find it. Sick Pleasure - Francesca Lia Block -- 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
You aren't your name. Your decisions are your own. -- Stephanie Perkins
The realization is surprising, but the one that follows stuns me even more.
I'm not in love with him anymore.
Instead, looking at him makes me feel ... hollow. -- Stephanie Perkins
Why?" His voice is suspicious. "Are you two going out now?"
"Yeah, we set up our first date right after he asked me to marry him. Please. We're just friends. -- Stephanie Perkins
We stop at a red light.Mom stares at me."You like him"
"OH GOD,MOM."
"You do.You like this boy."
"He's just a friend.He has a girlfriend."
"Anna has a boooy-friend," Seany chants.
"I do not!"
"ANNA HAS A BOOOY-FRIEND! -- Stephanie Perkins
I LOVE his hair, and now I get to touch it whenever I want.
And he doesn't even get irritated. Most of the time. -- Stephanie Perkins
Our fingers are in each other's hair, and his breath is in the hallow of my neck, and 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. -- Stephanie Perkins
The feeling is that we have everything to say. And where do you begin with everything? -- Stephanie Perkins
I don't care about anything. But I care about you. -- Stephanie Perkins
I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic. -- Stephanie Perkins
A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities. -- Stephanie Perkins
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
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
I'd like to point out that we've had zero problem reaching each other's mouths. -- Stephanie Perkins
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
You must think I'm a complete idiot right? That I'm just some doormat who'll wait for you on the sidelines forever? That you can keep running back to her every time things get difficult and I'll just be okay with it?! -- Stephanie Perkins
I catch a break as a cloud passes over the sun. -- Stephanie Perkins
Closed. Plenty of time to see it later, remember? He leads me into the courtyard, and I take the opportunity to admire his backside. Callipygian. There is something better than Notre-Dame. -- Stephanie Perkins
It's all happening at once, but everything I do seems to be wrong -- Stephanie Perkins
I'll be here when you return."
"I fixed my door. You'll need a key."
"I'll take good care of it."
"What if I won't give it to you?"
"Then I'll break the door again."
"This dormitory makes me feel so safe. -- Stephanie Perkins
Do you know my biggest regret?" She asks. "That you turned into this bright, beautiful, fascinating person ... and I can't take credit for any of it. -- Stephanie Perkins
They stayed with my mum."
"That's ... weird."
"Not really. Mum is cool, easy to get along with."
I raise a teasing eyebrow. "So where did YOU guys stay?"
"Where we always stay." He stares back solemnly. "In our very separate dormitories. -- Stephanie Perkins
My parents aren't hippies. I'm North as in the North Pole. Unfortunately. My brother is Nicholas, and my sister is Noelle.
Wow. God. That's
About a hundred times worse than your name.
I was going to say devoted. Festively devoted. -- Stephanie Perkins
St. Clair: So did you enjoy the book?
Anna: I did. Did you?
St. Clair: I like the author's name the best. Ba-nah-na. -- Stephanie Perkins
I was there that first night her called you. I've seen how he looked at you in pictures. Any bloke with a working prick would be insane not to like you. -- Stephanie Perkins
My mind wanders to the other side of the courtyard, where St. Clair waits with Josh in Q-through-Z. I wonder if I have any classes with him. I mean, them. Classes with them. -- Stephanie Perkins
We still hate Bridgette, right? I haven't missed anything? -- Stephanie Perkins
Josh bear-hugs St Clair. "I'm sorry you're off the market."
"Don't tell Anna, but I bought one for you, too," St Clair says. -- Stephanie Perkins
Josh: St. Clair and Anna are one of those couples that seem like they were made for each other. Instant friendship, instant chemistry. He was obsessed with her from the moment they met. She was the only thing he ever wanted to talk about. Still is, actually. -- Stephanie Perkins
Because I was right. For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person -- Stephanie Perkins
I like you. And I don't mean as a friend. -- Stephanie Perkins
I'm a little distracted by this English French American Boy Masterpiece. -- Stephanie Perkins
You'll be so busy with Bridge and what's-his-name that you'll forget all about your English mate, St. Clair."
"Ha! So you are English!" I poke him in the stomach.
He grabs my hand and we wrestle, laughing. "I claim ... no ... nationality. -- Stephanie Perkins
I've always felt lucky to live someplace where snow is rare, you know? It's rareness that makes it so speacial. -- Stephanie Perkins
That was the strangest timing. The strangest. It's like fate, if I believed in fate. I don't know. Maybe I believe in fate now. -- Stephanie Perkins
What do you guys even do every night?" The words slip from my mouth before I can stop them.
"It," Rashmi says. "They do it. He's ditching us to screw. -- Stephanie Perkins
The distance between us grows with each passing minute. Will he take my arm again, or will I have to take his? -- Stephanie Perkins
The unexpected explosion of color and noise and beauty in her world has left her awed. -- 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
Because eventually, no matter what the circumstances, he would see the real me. Josh is a beautiful, messy, passionate work of art, and I'm ... a blank canvas. There's nothing here to love. -- Stephanie Perkins
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. Shite."
Pants. Oh heavens, that's cute. -- Stephanie Perkins
Perfection is overrated. Perfection is boring -- Stephanie Perkins
Remember that day I made you the elevator?" he suddenly asks.
I give him a faint smile. "How could I forget?"
"That was the day I had my first kiss."
My smile fades.
"I'm better now," He sets the apple beside me. "At kissing, just so you know. -- Stephanie Perkins
But Sunday morning, things change. When we wake up, St. Clair stretches and accidentally smacks my boobs. Which not only hurts but also mortifies us both equally. -- Stephanie Perkins
To her amazement,Ellie breaks into an ear-to-ear smile.Oddly enough, it's this moment I realize that despite her husky voice and Parisian attire,she's sort of...plain. But friendly-looking.
That still doesn't mean I like her. -- Stephanie Perkins
Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget. -- Stephanie Perkins
Is it weird being in Omaha?" Simini asked her. "Now that everybody's left?" "It's like walking through the mall after it closes," Mags said. -- Stephanie Perkins
Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice. -- Stephanie Perkins
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. -- Stephanie Perkins
Even when he was gone, some fragment of his spirit lingered behind. -- Stephanie Perkins
But - "
"But what? You love him, and he loves you, and you live in the most romantic city in the world."
I shake my head. "It's not that simple."
"Then let me put it another way. A gorgeous boy is in love with you, and you're not even gonna try to make it work? -- Stephanie Perkins
Looking for tail." "Tail? Oh mon Dieu." I can't believe she's -- Stephanie Perkins
SPACES ... BREAKS ... TO CONTEMPLATE THINGS ... TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S IMPORTANT ... -- Stephanie Perkins
His eyes follow me everywhere, and we keep sharing smiles that feel like secrets.(Kiersten White) -- Stephanie Perkins
There's only one thing I don't love about him. Her. -- Stephanie Perkins
I must be a masochist to keep putting myself in these situations. I need help. I
need to see a shrink or be locked in a padded cell or straitjacketed or something. -- Stephanie Perkins
I am trying really hard not to use the word 'fabulous' right now. -- Stephanie Perkins
Phones are distracting. The internet is distracting.The way he looked at you? He wasn't distracted. He was consumed. -- Stephanie Perkins
Don't be a chickenshit. Tell him how you feel." "What if he doesn't love me?" "He does." "What if he doesn't?" "Ugh, then who cares? You won't lose anything you haven't already lost. -- Stephanie Perkins
There are few things worse than having feelings for someone you shouldn't, and I don't like where my thoughts were headed. -- Stephanie Perkins
I wish he would look at me the way he looks at his subjects. Because then he'd see there's more to me than shy, just like I see there's more to him than slacker -- 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
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. -- Stephanie Perkins
He sat on one side of a love seat, leaving space to sit beside him. Was it an invitation? Or a gesture of kindness, in that he was offering me the room's larger couch? WHY WAS THIS SO HARD? -- Stephanie Perkins
There's no reason to suffer this flight alone when we can suffer it together. -- Stephanie Perkins
It's Sunday night," he continues. "You aren't at Pizza Pellino."
"No, I'm at the Treehouse with Hattie." And then I'm so dizzy my vision goes black. "How ... how did you know that I'm not there?"
"Because I'm here. -- Stephanie Perkins
It was bad enough that she'd basically skipped Hanukkah this year, but to spend the last night of the Jewish holiday serenading the birth of Jesus. ... Just. No. -- Stephanie Perkins
Girls were supposed to be happy that someone wanted them, as though they were kittens in a basket, and any left by day's end would be drowned in the pond. -- Stephanie Perkins
YOU feel sorry for ME? I am not the one who has never tasted bread pudding. -- Stephanie Perkins
I know sneakers aren't very French-I should be wearing pointy boots or scary heels-but at least they aren't white. It's true what they say about white sneakers. Only American tourists wear them,big ugly things made for mowing grass or painting houses. -- Stephanie Perkins
I am here. You can talk to me or not talk to me, but I am here. -- Stephanie Perkins
I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day. -- Stephanie Perkins
But we stayed together, because I don't know why. Maybe because we though we should be in love. At least I did. I wanted to be in love. -- Stephanie Perkins
Is it possible that I'm worthy of being loved by someone whom I love? -- Stephanie Perkins
We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here," I whisper.
"Are you getting your ax?"
"Handcuffs."
"Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it. -- Stephanie Perkins
I'm not even embarrassed to hug my parents in public. Except when Nathan wears a sweatband when he goes running. Because really! -- Stephanie Perkins
Fairmont wasn't a place where we'd usually spend the afternoon. It was full of overpriced boutiques, overpriced coffee, and Mossley Academy, which was full of overpriced assholes. -- Stephanie Perkins
Why did he do it?"
"For the same reason everyone makes mistakes. He fell in love. -- Stephanie Perkins
Being a good person, or a better person, or whatever it is you're worried about and trying to fix? It shouldn't change who you are. It means you become more like yourself. -- Stephanie Perkins
What are you doing?" He flops down next to me. "Checking your email?
St. Clair snorts. "Give the lad a medal for his brilliant skills in detection. -- Stephanie Perkins
You know more useless crap, St. Clair. Good thing you're so darn cute, Josh says. -- Stephanie Perkins
Is it possible for a home to be a person and not a place? Brigette used to be home to me. Maybe St. Clair is my new home. -- Stephanie Perkins
His wang is rubbed shiny," Josh elaborates. "For luck."
"Why are we talking about parts again?" Mer asks. "Can't we ever talk about anything else?"
"Really?" I ask. "Shiny wang?"
"Very," St. Clair says.
"Now that's something I've gotta see. -- Stephanie Perkins
Confidence, darling." He leans across the table and touches a finger to my cheek. "You could learn something from me, you know. -- Stephanie Perkins
St. Clair!" Josh springs from his seat, and they give each other the classic two-thumps-on-the-back guy hug.
"No kiss? I'm crushed, mate. -- Stephanie Perkins
St. Clair wanders around, picking up things and examining them like I did in Meredith's room. He inspects the collection of banana and elephant figurines lined up on my dresser. He holds up a glass elephant and raises his dark eyebrows in question. -- Stephanie Perkins
Holy crap. I just slept with St. Clair. -- 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
You'll be reading the breakfast menu without me before you know it.
Hmm, maybe I don't want to learn French -- Stephanie Perkins
I've never ditched. I don't understand how he can just shrug everything off. -- Stephanie Perkins
I'll only be twenty-minute train ride from your school, and I'll make the commute to see you every night. I'd take a commute ten times just to be with you every night. -- Stephanie Perkins
Toph kicks over the microphone stand in a grand, asshole gesture, and the three of them jump off the stage. It's a little less dramatic when they have to come right back to take apart their stuff before the next band comes on. -- Stephanie Perkins
Watch it." Josh bites into a pink apple and talks through a full mouth. "He has parts down there you don't have."
"Ooo, parts," I say. "Intriguing. Tell me more."
Josh smiles sadly. "Sorry. Privileged information. Only people with parts can know about said parts. -- Stephanie Perkins
It's so Hogwarts. -- Stephanie Perkins
What are we doing?" Mags asked. "I don't know. ... " he said eventually. "I know things have to change, but ... I can't lose you. I don't think I get another one like you. -- Stephanie Perkins
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
Screw it. Let the fates decide -- Stephanie Perkins
I bought you love poetry! 'I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.'" I blink at him. "Neruda. I starred the passage. God," he moans. "Why didn't you open it? -- Stephanie Perkins
In Paris, it's common to acknowledge someone attractive. The French don't avert their gaze like other cultures do. Haven't you noticed? -- Stephanie Perkins
You've built up this idea about me, this ideal, but I'm not that person. I'm not perfect. I am far from perfect. I'm not worth such a beautiful story. -- Stephanie Perkins
I suddenly understand why people describe kissing as melting because every square inch of my body dissolves into his. My fingers grip his hair, pulling him closer. My veins throb and my heart explodes. I have never wanted anyone like this before. Ever. -- Stephanie Perkins
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you. -- Stephanie Perkins
whyareyougivingawaythecookies?! -- Stephanie Perkins
When two people are in love, it's supposed to work. It has to work. No matter how difficult the circumstances are. -- Stephanie Perkins
He raises his voice so that I can hear him through the glass door. "Get some rest, Loopy. Sweet dreams."
"Sweet," I echo. "Dream. -- Stephanie Perkins
Why aren't the two of you together?'
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 - that we've missed our chance. -- 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
That being singular is the exact thing that makes something
or someone
amazing. -- Stephanie Perkins
I'm empty. I'm drained. And I can't move. Not that I'd want to. Because that's the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don't want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. -- Stephanie Perkins
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? -- Stephanie Perkins
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 thought honesty made people strong. -- Stephanie Perkins
I'll always be the girl crying on her bed. -- Stephanie Perkins
Imagine," she said, after registering, "a whole city of gorgeous Italian guys. They can say anything to me, and it'll be sexy."
"You'll be so easy," Rashmi said. "Would you like-ah to order-ah the spa-ghe-tti? 'Oh, do me, Marco! -- Stephanie Perkins
That's it," Rashmi says. "I'm outta here. Enjoy your hormones. -- Stephanie Perkins
It's about isolation and loneliness, but it's also about friendship. Being exactly what the other person needs. -- Stephanie Perkins
He's gleeful to know something I don't. Which is annoying considering we're both aware that he knows everything about Parisian life, whereas I have the savvy of a chocolate croissant. -- Stephanie Perkins
I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. -- Stephanie Perkins
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. -- 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
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? -- Stephanie Perkins
You say that I'm afraid of being alone, and it's true. I am. And I'm not proud of it. But you need to take a good look at yourself, Anna, because I am NOT the only one in this room who suffers this problem. -- Stephanie Perkins
There's something about blue eyes.
The kind of blue that startles you every time they're lifted in your direction. The kind of blue that makes you ache for them to look at you again. Not the blue green or blue gray, the blue that's just blue.
Cricket has those eyes. -- Stephanie Perkins
I'm serious! You have to promise me right now, this instant, that you won't leave me once you meet him.Most people would run."
"I'm not most people."
I smile."I know. But you still have to promise."
His eyes lock on mine."Anna, I promise that I will never leave you. -- Stephanie Perkins
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. -- Stephanie Perkins
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? -- Stephanie Perkins
Why do I care so much about him, and why do I wish I didn't? How can one person make me so confused all of the time? -- Stephanie Perkins
It's often suggested that as a culture, we're only interested in immediate gratification. Fast food. Self-checkout. Downloadable music, movies, books. Instant coffee, instant rebates, instant messaging. Instant weight loss! Shall I go on? -- Stephanie Perkins
Sorry to be your second choice."
"Don't be stupid. Third choice. Mum's asleep, remember?" He laughs again. -- Stephanie Perkins
I don't actually have any accounts, because social networking has always felt like a popularity contest to me. A public record of my own inadequacies. -- Stephanie Perkins
People can play dumb all they want, but they always give themselves away in actions. In the small moments like that. -- Stephanie Perkins
He stayed with her for so long because he liked the idea of being in love. He has an empty well in his heart that needs to be filled by someone. Anyone. But that's not enough for me, and it won't be enough for him either once he finally realizes the truth. -- Stephanie Perkins
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 decide. -- Stephanie Perkins
Why did you want me to dress warmly?" she asks. "Are you taking me to a Siberian prison?"
"Nope."
"Abandoned research station in Antarctica?"
"Nope."
"You're taking me to practice for our two-person skeleton race at the Olympics."
"Yes. -- Stephanie Perkins
I don't know. I don't really like old movies. The acting is so, 'Hey buddy, ol' pal. Let's go wear our hats and have a big misunderstanding -- Stephanie Perkins
So he started writing these novels set in Small Town Georgia about folks with Good American Values who Fall in Love and then contract Life-Threatening Diseases and Die. I'm -- Stephanie Perkins
People always laugh, because they don't expect words like shit to come one of someone so petite, someone with a voice so quiet, so sweet. -- Stephanie Perkins
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
And it totally depresses me, but the ladies eat it up. They love my father's books and they love his cable-knit sweaters and they love his bleachy smile and orangey tan. And they have turned him into a bestseller and a total dick. -- Stephanie Perkins
It's why she's always switching coaches, and it's why she'd rather get third instead of second. When she gets third, at least she's happy to have placed. But second. That's too close to first. -- Stephanie Perkins
Life is not about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get -Dolores Nolan -- 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
I wasn't being a git. I wasn't even being a twat, or a wanker, or any of your other bleeding Briticisms - -- Stephanie Perkins
Because I hate that word. Like being gay is something to be ashamed of. Like because Mer likes sports, it automatically makes her a lesbian. That insult doesn't even make sense. -- Stephanie Perkins
I just want you to know that we didn't do anything but talk and sleep - sleep sleep," he quickly adds. "Like with eyes closed and hands to oneself and dreaming. Innocent dreams. I would never do anything behind your back. I mean, never anything dishonorable. I mean- -- Stephanie Perkins
I'm just as big a fool as the rest of them. -- Stephanie Perkins
You've spent all this time afraid to talk about what was going on between you two, but if you'd ever bothered to ask him, you would have discovered that he wasn't worth it. -- Stephanie Perkins
I want to kiss him for the rest of the night, for the rest of our lives. The one. -- Stephanie Perkins
For once in your life, listen to your younger sister. She's taller, and she knows better than you -- Stephanie Perkins
But I could be mistaking our friendship for something more, because I want to mistake it for something more. -- Stephanie Perkins
It's strange. Home. How I could wish for it so long, only to come back and find it gone. -- Stephanie Perkins
Some kinds of misery make you hate the world, but some kinds make you hate yourself, -- Stephanie Perkins
You know, If you weren't tiny, cute and remarkably innocent looking I'd be running away right now. This feels like the set-up to some torture porn. -- Stephanie Perkins
They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE! -- Stephanie Perkins
And the three of them are uncannily reminiscent of Harry, Ron, and Hermione. -- Stephanie Perkins
You can carry alt these memories around. They'll last longer than your grief, I promise, and someday you'll be able to think of them and feel like I'm right there with you again. -- Stephanie Perkins
So neither is "the woman". They're both gay men. Duh. -- Stephanie Perkins
It doesn't matter how much fabric is between us, the solid strength of his body against mine is electric. Charged. And then our arms are enveloping and our fingers are digging and our mouths are searching and our bodies find this lock. -- Stephanie Perkins
I grip the edge of a sidewalk cafe 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
I didn't do anything I didn't want to do. -- Stephanie Perkins
You only have one chance to make a first impression. -- Stephanie Perkins
Har. Bloody. Har."
He smiles. "Oh, I see. Known me less than a day and teasing me about my accent. What's next? Care to discuss the state of my hair? My height? My trousers?"
Trousers. Honestly. -- Stephanie Perkins
Summoning those memories was like touching a burning pot. She could do it only briefly before she had to pull away. -- Stephanie Perkins
You read a lot. - Safer than going on a real adventure -- Stephanie Perkins
I moan with pleasure.
"Did you just have a foodgasm?" he asks, wiping ricotta from his lips.
"Where have you been all my life?" I ask the beautiful panini. -- Stephanie Perkins
Tomorrow. Right now, I only want you. -- Stephanie Perkins
Life is too short to be the same person everyday. -- Stephanie Perkins
He takes my hands into his.Those perfect hands, that fit mine just so. -- Stephanie Perkins
You forgot to call,' he says.
I throw open my arms. He pulls me into them, and we kiss, and his lips are cold, and I think he's crying, and I'm definitely crying, and I pull back to say, 'I am so in love with you, Joshua Wasserstein. Of course I'll wait for you. -- Stephanie Perkins
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? -- Stephanie Perkins
It's impossible, the not-knowing, but it's better than getting the wrong answer. -- Stephanie Perkins
People say be different I am so why am I bullied? -- 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
I don't know. No one has ever so completely confounded me the way you do. -- Stephanie Perkins
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
Artists are inspired by blank canvases. -- Stephanie Perkins
I am worried about being in love, because it involves asking so much. I am worried that my life will never fit into his. That I will never know him. That he will never know me. That we get to hear the stories, but never get to hear the full truth. -- 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
Something deep inside me lurched.
The stirring was as startling and unpleasant as it was thrilling and revolutionary. -- Stephanie Perkins
Where's your hat?"
He squints at me. "Mer? Is that you? Do I need my scarf? Will it be cold, Mummy? -- Stephanie Perkins
Pinkie means excited or happy, thumb means thinking or worried. I'm surprised I know
the meaning of these gestures. How closely have I been paying attention to him? -- Stephanie Perkins
How much detention did you get?
Two weeks. One per arsehole. -- Stephanie Perkins
I'm in love with my new best friend. -- Stephanie Perkins
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. -- Stephanie Perkins
I'm walking you home. It's late. And it's pouring -- Stephanie Perkins
I want to feel the creases in his skin, connect his freckles with invisible lines, brush my fingers across the inside of his wrists. -- Stephanie Perkins
You don't always have to solve your problems alone, you know. This is why people talk to their friends. -- Stephanie Perkins
I keep my eyes on his bedspread - blue-and-white plaid, very male - and try to remember how Isla-of-the-past would have fainted if she could see Isla-of-the-present. -- Stephanie Perkins
What do you say to someone who is not the same and yet completely the same? -- Stephanie Perkins
People are confusing. They say one thing and mean the other. -- Stephanie Perkins
I smile as I leave them, wondering what building my dad would try to save with his writing.Probably a baseball stadium. Or a Burger King. -- Stephanie Perkins
Does this ... does this mean you want to be my boyfriend?" My question sounds both immature and momentous. But Josh doesn't flinch.
"Yes," he says. "I want. -- Stephanie Perkins
Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough. -- Stephanie Perkins
What'd I tell you about musicians? That bad boy type will only break your heart. -- Stephanie Perkins
Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys. -- Stephanie Perkins
Well, bloody noses." I hug his coat tighter. "Those are definitely hot. -- Stephanie Perkins
How'd you get this number?"
"Well, you see, there's this book. It has white pages. And it has all these phone numbers listed inside it. It's also online. -- Stephanie Perkins
Anna, Anna," Josh interrupts. "If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa. You'll be fine. -- Stephanie Perkins
If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa. -- Stephanie Perkins
I hate that it sounds like a punishment. -- Stephanie Perkins
I'll only say this once more. I like you. I've always liked you. It would be wrong for me to come back into your life and act otherwise. -- Stephanie Perkins
...home isn't a place. It's a person. -- Stephanie Perkins
Isla was named after something, too, you know." "Don't you dare," I say. Josh sits forward. His eyes shine. "Do tell." "Prince. Edward. Island, -- Stephanie Perkins
I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year! -- Stephanie Perkins
So do you believe in second chances?" I bite my lip.
"Second, third, fourth. Whatever it takes. However long it takes. If the person is right," he adds.
"If the person is ... Lola?"
This time, he holds my gaze. "Only if the other person is Cricket. -- Stephanie Perkins
Soap?"
"School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP".
Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed. -- Stephanie Perkins
He was the god of tide-lap and wingbeat, talon and pearl. She was the goddess of ... herself. And he could not look away from her. -- Stephanie Perkins
Hello?" No reply. My shoulders sag. "What's the point of a staircase if no one is here to watch my entrance? -- Stephanie Perkins
Because, of course, of how intelligent you are. And funny. Not that you aren't attractive. Because you are. Attractive. Oh, bugger ... "
I wait.
"Are you still there, or did you hang up because I'm such a bleeding idiot?"
"I'm here."
"God, you made me work for that. -- Stephanie Perkins
It's easy to talk about things we hate, but sometimes it's hard to explain exactly why we like something. -- Stephanie Perkins
I can't imagine Josh falling for someone vanilla.
Not that Josh would ever fall for me.
But I wouldn't want to ruin any chance.
Even though I don't have a chance.
But just in case I do.
Even though I don't. -- 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. -- Stephanie Perkins
You know, I've heard you actually have to have sex to get pregnant. -- Stephanie Perkins
Instead, I argue and roll my eyes and act indifferent. And when I touch his arm, I shove it. Because that's what friends do. -- Stephanie Perkins
Nice strawberries.
Shut up.
No, I mean it. Cute. -- 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
The lines are careful. They reveal he pays attention. People don't think he does, because he daydreams and skips class and neglects his homework, but when I see his drawings, I know they're wrong. -- Stephanie Perkins
Maybe I'm not a brave American, but I think I can be a brave Canadian. -- Stephanie Perkins
Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent. -- Stephanie Perkins
I like you," he says.
My body is rigid.
"And I don't mean as a friend. -- Stephanie Perkins
I draw him closer by his tie and whisper into his ear, Cricket Bell, I have been in love with you for my entire life. -- Stephanie Perkins
I've spent many dark nights trying to forget about Cricket. It doesn't feel fair that he could have forgotten about me. -- Stephanie Perkins
It's not stupid to want to put on a pretty dress and feel beautiful for a night. -- Stephanie Perkins
The distance between us feels too close, too far, too close. -- Stephanie Perkins
North could have kissed her. He could have done it, he could have swooped in, but he was being respectful. It made her want to devour him whole. Or be devoured whole. -- Stephanie Perkins
He punished the naughty and rewarded the nice. Just like someone else who wore a lot of red. Scramble the letters in S-A-N-T-A and you get S-A-T-A-N. -- Stephanie Perkins
Saw two fallen branches in the shape of a heart. Thought of you. -- Stephanie Perkins
Shame leads to secrets, and secrets lead to lies, and lies ruin everything. -- Stephanie Perkins
Everyone is worthy of love." - Hattie -- Stephanie Perkins
You're so bad at good-byes, he whispers in my ear. Which is true. There is an average of about forty-seven minutes between the time we first type "goodnight" and the moment we actually stop sending our words back and forth. -- Stephanie Perkins
One of the new girls followed me in and said she thinks Toph is an insensitive douchebag motherhumping assclown, and that I shouldn't let him get to me. Which was sweet, but didn't really help. -- Stephanie Perkins
It's midnight, it's sweltering, and I might be high on Vicodin, but that guy - that guy right over there - that's him.
The him. -- Stephanie Perkins
I'm going to be sick. I'm going to vomit that weird eggplant tapenade I had for dinner, and everyone will hear, and no one will invite me to watch the mimes escape from their invisible boxes, or whatever it is people do here in their spare time. -- Stephanie Perkins
I'm dizzy. It physically hurts to look at him. "I can't breathe."
"Of course you can breathe," Kurt says. "You're breathing right now. -- Stephanie Perkins
When you're asleep, no one asks you to do anything. No one expects anything of you. And you don't have to face any of your troubles. -- Stephanie Perkins
Cricket Bell." I smiled into my phone. "How did you get so wise? -- Stephanie Perkins
I wish for the thing that is best for me. -- Stephanie Perkins
One regular, clockworkorange88, said this: It sucked balls. Dirty balls. Like I-ran-a-mile-in-July-while-wearing-leather-pants balls.
Sounds about right. -- Stephanie Perkins
And it didn't matter how many songs or poems had already been written about them, because whenever he thought about the girl, the stars shone brighter. As if she were the one keeping them illuminated. -- Stephanie Perkins
There sure are a lot of stairs. Holy crap,will these things ever end?
Seriously?
MORE STAIRS?
This is ridiculous.I'm never buying a house with stairs.I won't even steps to my front door,just a gradual incline. -- Stephanie Perkins
And I hold my head high toward my big entrance, hand in hand with the boy who gave me the moon and the stars. -- Stephanie Perkins
I pick a fight. I am cruel. I annihilate him. -- Stephanie Perkins
And then he's gone again.
Wednesday.
Thursday.
Friday.
Where is he? -- Stephanie Perkins
All I want to do is burrow into his arms and know that everything is still good between us. -- Stephanie Perkins
But I'm worse. I'm a child playing dress-up, who can't even recognize herself under her own costume. -- Stephanie Perkins
Some of us wear our hearts. Some of us carry them. -- Stephanie Perkins
I scan the dark room, through the thrashing bodies of disillusioned Parisian youth, getting their anger out with a healthy dose of French punk rock. -- Stephanie Perkins
And, suddenly, I want to touch him. Not a push, or a shove, or even a friendly hug. I want to feel the creases in his skin, connect his freckles with invisible lines, brush my fingers across the inside of his wrist. -- Stephanie Perkins
It's the beginning of everything. -- Stephanie Perkins
Not because he was a decent block, mind you. He was an arse. But he was a shirt arse, like meself. (Napoleon) -- Stephanie Perkins
I finally realized how absurd it was that I'd worried so much about what my classmates thought about me. It's not like I wanted to look like them. -- Stephanie Perkins
And we're finally home. -- Stephanie Perkins
The towers are illuminated in blue and white lights. They're more disjointed than the buildings in Paris;they have no relationship. They're just stupid rectangles designed to be taller, better than others. -- Stephanie Perkins
How did my parents live before texting? Before the internet? I'm used to knowing things and all of this unknowing is driving me mad. -- Stephanie Perkins
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. -- Stephanie Perkins
Thanks. I forgot how to flip off the English. I'll use the correct hand gesture next time."
"My pleasure. Always happy to educate. -- Stephanie Perkins
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person. And we're finally home."
Stephanie Perkins - Anna and the French Kiss -- Stephanie Perkins
For a certain type of person, high school will always be brutal,' the head says. 'The best advice that I can give you is to figure out what comes next, and work towards that. -- Stephanie Perkins
Josh grins. It's wide and relieved and reveals a rarely seen pair of dimples. I could live inside those dimples for the rest of my life. -- Stephanie Perkins
No more moving. I'm here. I'm wherever you are. -- Stephanie Perkins
Lola?" Cricket is on his knees at the side of my bed. I feel it. "I'm here," he whispers. "You can talk to me or not talk to me, but I'm here. -- Stephanie Perkins
There are some people in life that you can't get over. -- Stephanie Perkins
Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place? -- Stephanie Perkins
I catch a glimpse of his abdomen. Yummy. "Yummy tummy."
He startles. "What?"
"Hmm? -- Stephanie Perkins
It's not right. It hasn't been right, not since I met you. -- Stephanie Perkins
My boyfriend loses his virginity, and, oh, who's that looking on?
It's a rabbit. -- Stephanie Perkins
It's maddening how someone so easy to read can be so impossible to understand. -- Stephanie Perkins
I need you to be my person, -- Stephanie Perkins
My head jerks up in embarassment, but he's smiling. I drop my face, so that my hair shields my cheeks. They blush more for his smile than anything else. -- Stephanie Perkins
You said on my birthday that you were afraid of being alone, but I've been here this whole time. This whole time. -- Stephanie Perkins
So what you're saying [...] is that the translator has a lot of decisions to make. That there are multiple meanings to be found in any word, in any sentence. In any situation. -- Stephanie Perkins
Kismet is closing."
"What's Kismet?"
"Fate," he says.
"What?"
"The name of the cafe. -- Stephanie Perkins
I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else. -- Stephanie Perkins
Oof," he says.
"Hey, there's a bed there."
"Thanks for the warning."
"No problem. -- Stephanie Perkins
Boys turns girls into such idiots. -- Stephanie Perkins
You've been dating him for less than a month. -- Stephanie Perkins
Nathan nods. "Have a good time. Don't do anything I wouldn't do." I hear Andy as I'm walking out the front door. "Honey, that threat doesn't work when you're gay. -- Stephanie Perkins
Do you like it? she asks. Universal bitch speak for I think it's hideous. -- Stephanie Perkins
You know that because you asked me out, you're the one who has to pick the place, right?"
Throat. Dry.
Dry throat.
All of the dryness in my throat.
"Whatever you suggest." He grins. "I'll say yes. You'll definitely get a yes. If that helps. -- Stephanie Perkins
It's not uncommon. Nice guys finish last and all. -- Stephanie Perkins
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. -- Stephanie Perkins
Thr rareness, the specialness, of North. Of this night. She wished it could last forever. (It's a yuletide miracle, Charlie Brown) -- Stephanie Perkins
My face is round, and my cheeks are pinchable, and my ears stick out farther than I'd like. -- Stephanie Perkins
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 mean I didn't SLEEP sleep with him. Obviously. But I slept with him. -- Stephanie Perkins
There's no story,' I say. 'I saw you one day, and I just knew. -- Stephanie Perkins
I wanted to be your partner the first day. -- Stephanie Perkins
Even his hair seemed more startled than usual. -- Stephanie Perkins
You should show encouragement whenever you can. People try harder when they know that someone cares about them. -- Stephanie Perkins
Beautiful. He called me beautiful! But wait. I don't like Dave. Do I like Dave? -- Stephanie Perkins
Because I don't want to be alone right now." His voice echoes through the night.
I turn around to face him one last time. "You weren't alone, asshole. -- Stephanie Perkins
There were no glimmering moments where their looks hooked on to each other and grew hot, and no catching sight of one of the boys in a ray of sun and thinking, I wonder what his skin tastes like. -- Stephanie Perkins
Will you please tell me you love me? I'm dying here. -- Stephanie Perkins
I'm not interested in making what's easy. I'm interested in making what's beautiful. -- Stephanie Perkins
Madame Guillotine gets mad at me. Not because I told them to shove it, but because I didn't say it in French. What is wrong with this school? -- Stephanie Perkins
He's coming over," Lindsay says. "What do you want me to do? Kick him in the balls? I've been dying to kick him in the balls. -- Stephanie Perkins
We're both aware that he knows everything about Parisian life, whereas I have he savvy of a chocolate croissant. -- Stephanie Perkins
Happy Thanksgiving," he says, handing me my ticket. "Let's see some dead people. -- Stephanie Perkins
But, for me, yes. I have to be with Anna. But this is something you have to figure out on your own. -- Stephanie Perkins
Take a risk. Take a fucking risk. If you keep playing it safe, you'll never know who you are -Josh -- Stephanie Perkins
There's another uncomfortable tug on my heart. Why do I care so much about him, and why do I wish I didn't? How can one person make me so confused all the time? -- Stephanie Perkins
I blame it on his pants. -- Stephanie Perkins
It sucked balls.Dirty balls. Like I-ran-a-mile-in-July-while-wearing-leather-pants balls. -- Stephanie Perkins
I'm just saying that if it were Anna, I'd want to meet her coworkers. See where she's spending her time."
I stare at him, hard. "Obviously. -- Stephanie Perkins
At least I'm not the only one who finds change difficult. -- Stephanie Perkins
This is home. The two of us. -- Stephanie Perkins
His name explodes inside of me like cannon fire. -- Stephanie Perkins
I have to talk to someone or risk explosion. -- Stephanie Perkins
Meretricious. Showily attractive but cheap or insincere. -- Stephanie Perkins
Place the boldest color where I want people to look. -- Stephanie Perkins
But you'll want me someday? That feeling you once had for me ... that hasn't left either?" Our hearts beat the same wild rhythm. They're playing the same song. "It never left," I say. -- Stephanie Perkins
The senses have their limits, and we can never know how short they fall in revealing to us the truth of a vision, a scent, a sound. -- Stephanie Perkins
It's become impossible to deny he means something to me. -- Stephanie Perkins
What ... what about when I'm married?"
"We'll buy a cot. Your husband can sleep on that when he visits. -- Stephanie Perkins
You're doing the girl thing. Saying you're happy when you're not. -- Stephanie Perkins
I've taken you this far. I can take you that much farther. -- Stephanie Perkins
You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions. -- Stephanie Perkins
If I looked at this dress as one massive thing, it would be too overwhelming. No one could create such a gown. But by breaking it down into tiny, individual steps, it becomes something I can achieve. -- Stephanie Perkins
Oh God." I blink at the mirror. "It looks like I've been vomited on by an inkwell. -- Stephanie Perkins
And I can no longer remember my name or my country, or even my place in the universe. -- Stephanie Perkins
He was the kind of beautiful that got under your skin. -- Stephanie Perkins
Parents are excellent at stating the obvious. -- Stephanie Perkins
Cricket weaves easily around the other customers as if we're the only two people in the store. The music over the -- Stephanie Perkins
I'm here to live, and I feel small. -- Stephanie Perkins
What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice. -- Stephanie Perkins
Hi," I whisper.
He peels off my hands and turns toward the aisle. "Please don't make this any harder than it already is," he whispers back. -- Stephanie Perkins
When it's right, it's simple," he says to my unasked question. "Unlike your hair. -- Stephanie Perkins
Relax," he says, "You're with me. I'm practically French."
"You're English."
He grins. "I'm American. -- Stephanie Perkins
Sometimes a mistake isn't a what. It's a who. -- Stephanie Perkins
And I want to press my palm against his chest to feel it beat, to prove he's really there.
But we cannot touch. -- Stephanie Perkins
I don't understand why things always go from perfect to weird with us. It's like we're incapable of normal human interaction. -- Stephanie Perkins
He tastes like my deepest craving fulfilled. -- Stephanie Perkins
It's ridiculous how difficult a question can be when the answer means so much. -- Stephanie Perkins
I know. As if I'd ever go for him now that my dad wants me to date him."
"As if you'd ever go for his again."
"Right ... right. -- Stephanie Perkins
I've learned that if I never leave those areas of my life that feel comfortable, I'll never have a chance at a greater happiness. -- Stephanie Perkins
To be good at anything you have to practice. -- Stephanie Perkins
Life isn't about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get. -- Stephanie Perkins
School has ruined cinema.It's official. There's nothing worth living for. -- Stephanie Perkins
The rest of it, the unknown... it'll come -- Stephanie Perkins
Seriously. We were never like that were we? -- Stephanie Perkins
I have the strangest feeling that he's aware of me as I am of him. -- Stephanie Perkins
You can't avoid your problems forever. No one can. -- Stephanie Perkins
Why doesn't he have the same effect on them that he has on me? Don't they see him? -- Stephanie Perkins
It's a relief to know it won't happen. It makes things easier. -- Stephanie Perkins
When it's right, it's simple. -- Stephanie Perkins
It doesn't matter. I'm with you. I'm happy to be anywhere with you. -- Stephanie Perkins
Did you wake me up ... to talk about candy? -- Stephanie Perkins
You look like a corgi -- Stephanie Perkins
Would you rather be great at something you like, or just okay at something you love? -- Stephanie Perkins
But I hurt you." His voice grows quiet. "I wish that I hadn't. -- Stephanie Perkins
People should say what they mean and not make other people stumble around. -- Stephanie Perkins
Color me intrigued, Martin. -- Stephanie Perkins
Let's vow to never become monsters that we are trying to protect ourselves from. -- Stephanie Perkins
