95 Quotes & Sayings By Stephanie Perkins

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

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

The only French word I know is oui, which means “yes, ” and only recently did I learn it’s spelled o-â€â€¹u-â€â€¹i and not w-â€â€¹e-â€â€¹e. Stephanie Perkins

I'm sorry, " he says." What? Why?""You're fixing everything I set down." He nods at my hands, which are readjusting the elephant. "It wasn't polite of me to come in and start touching your things."" Oh, it's okay, " I say quickly, letting go of the figurine. "You can touch anything of mine you want." would be so bad. 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

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

If I weren't standing next to your boyfriend, I'd be tempted to ask you out myself." She blushes, and St. Clair bounds inside the box office and wrestles her into a hug. "Miiiiiiiiine! " he says." Cut it out." Anna pushes him off, laughing. "You'll get fired. And then I'll have to support your sorry arse for the rest of our lives. Stephanie Perkins

We straighten , bu our snickering is barely contained as we attempt to focus our attention on a picture of a discarded Coke can. "This guy's lady love is kind of a slob, don't you think?" he whispers. I cover my mouth with my hands again." A reaaaaaaaal litterbug."" Stop it, " I hiss. My eyes are watering. "Ohmygod look at this one! How did he get her toenail clippings?"" If you were my girl, " he whispers, "I'd take creepy pictures of your trash when I knew you weren't looking."" If you were my girl, " I whisper back, " I"d put the creepy pictures in a foreign museum so you wouldn't know that I take creepy pictures. Stephanie Perkins

St. Clair gets a crush on Anna. He's torn between her and Ellie, and he spends so much time running between them that he hardly has time left for Josh. And the more time that Josh spends alone, the more he realizes how alone he actually is. All of his friends will be gone the next year. Josh grows increasingly antagonistic toward school, which makes Rashmi increasingly antagonistic toward him, which makes him increasingly antagonistic toward her. And she's upset because Elie dropped her as a friend, and Meredith is upset because now St. Clair likes two girls who aren't her, and Anna is upset because St. Clair is leading her on, and then St. Clair's mom gets cancer. It's a freaking soap opera. Stephanie Perkins

A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities. Stephanie Perkins

We can’t stop smiling at each other. I can’t believe that adults get to do this every day. And I don’t even mean sex, though it’s wonderful, but things like this. Brushing our teeth at the same sink. 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 have a rule."" Elaborate." The statue is still warm from the previous visitors. "I ask myself, if the worst happened–if I did get knocked up-would I be embarrassed to tell my child who his father was? If the answer is anywhere even remotely close to yes, then there's no way." He nods slowly. "That's a good rule. 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

And then there's the other thing. 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 d Stephanie Perkins

I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s okay to be a blank canvas. Maybe it’s okay that my future is unknown. And maybe, ” I say with another smile, “it’s okay to be inspired by the people who do know their future. Stephanie Perkins

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

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 lungs. 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. Stephanie Perkins

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 lungs. 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. Stephanie Perkins

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

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

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

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

..the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don’t want to let it go. Itbecomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs. I wantto nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It’s mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in itsarms and not wake up for a long, long time. Stephanie Perkins

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

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? 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

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. Stephanie Perkins

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

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

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 trail my fingers across his cheek. He stays perfectly still for me. "Please stop apologizing, Etienne.""Say my name again, " he whispers. I close my eyes and lean forward. "Etienne."He takes my hands into his. Those perfect hands, that fit mine just so. "Anna?"Our foreheads touch. "Yes?""Will you please tell me you love me? I'm dying here." And then we're laughing. And then I'm in his arms, and we're kissing, at first quickly - to make up for lost time - and then slowly, because we have all the time in the world. And his lips are soft and honey sweet, and the careful, passionate way he moves them against my own says that he savors the way I taste, too. And in between kisses, I tell him I love him. Again and again and again. 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! Stephanie Perkins

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

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. 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. 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

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: ̉ۡtienne 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

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

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 Stephanie Perkins

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

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

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. 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

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

How did you know? That she wasn't the one for him?" Now he's staring at his hands, slowing rubbing them together. "They just didn't have that. natural magic. You know? It never seemed easy." My voice grows tiny. "Do you think things have to be easy? For it to work?" Cricket's head shoots up, his eyes bulging as they grasp my meaning. "NO. I mean, yes, but. sometimes there are. . extenuating circumstances. That prevent it from being easy. For a while. But then people overcome those. .circumstances. and. .""So 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."Chapter 27Pg 273. 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

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

I'd like to point out that we've had zero problem reaching each other's mouths. 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

I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas tree agnostic." He smiles. "I like it and you're a Yom Kippur atheist. Stephanie Perkins

They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE! Stephanie Perkins