Top 250 Stephanie Perkins Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You only have one chance to make a first impression.”

— Stephanie Perkins

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2. “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”

— Stephanie Perkins

3. “Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.”

— Stephanie Perkins

4. “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

5. “For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”

— Stephanie Perkins

6. “Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”

— Stephanie Perkins

7. “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

8. “It’s easy to talk about things we hate, but sometimes it’s hard to explain exactly why we like something.”

— Stephanie Perkins

9. “Will you please tell me you love me? I’m dying here.”

— Stephanie Perkins

10. “And we’re finally home.”

— Stephanie Perkins

11. “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

12. “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

13. “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

14. “You can’t avoid your problems forever. No one can.”

— Stephanie Perkins

15. “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

16. “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

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17. “History books are filled with lies. Whoever wins the war tells the story.”

— Stephanie Perkins

18. “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

19. “People can play dumb all they want, but they always give themselves away in actions. In the small moments like that.”

— Stephanie Perkins

20. “I guess you never really know what’s going on inside someone else’s head.”

— Stephanie Perkins

21. “I don’t believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.”

— Stephanie Perkins

22. “When it’s right, it’s simple.”

— Stephanie Perkins

23. “This is home. The two of us.”

— Stephanie Perkins

24. “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

25. “No more moving. I’m here. I’m wherever you are.”

— Stephanie Perkins

26. “Are you gonna say what’s on your mind, or are you gonna make me guess? Because I’m not good at guessing games. People should say what they mean to say and not make other people stumble around.”

— Stephanie Perkins

27. “Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.”

— Stephanie Perkins

28. “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

29. “Sometimes a mistake isn’t a what. It’s a who.”

— Stephanie Perkins

30. “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

31. “The rest of it, the unknown... it’ll come.”

— Stephanie Perkins

32. “Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place? Because I was right. For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It’s a person.”

— Stephanie Perkins

33. “Because I was right. For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It’s a person. And we’re finally home.”

— Stephanie Perkins

34. “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

35. “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

36. “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

37. “There are some people in life that you can’t get over.”

— Stephanie Perkins

38. “Just because something isn’t practical doesn’t mean it’s not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.”

— Stephanie Perkins

39. “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

40. “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

41. “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

42. “Har. Bloody. Har.”

— Stephanie Perkins

43. “French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.”

— Stephanie Perkins

44. “I know you aren’t perfect. But it’s a person’s imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.”

— Stephanie Perkins

45. “He couldn’t be dead, because he was still so alive in her mind.”

— Stephanie Perkins

46. “Meretricious. Showily attractive but cheap or insincere.”

— Stephanie Perkins

47. “Shame leads to secrets, and secrets lead to lies, and lies ruin everything.”

— Stephanie Perkins

48. “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

49. “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

50. “Welcome to Paris, Anna. I’m glad you’ve come.”

— Stephanie Perkins

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