Quotes From "Isla And The Happily Ever After" By 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well, bloody noses." I hug his coat tighter. "Those are definitely hot. 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 don't care about anything. But I care about you. 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

Do adults realize how lucky they are? 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 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