Top 250 Stephanie Perkins Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Life isn’t about what you get, it’s about what you DO with what you get.”

— Stephanie Perkins

52. “Girl scouts didn’t teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.”

— Stephanie Perkins

53. “Boys turns girls into such idiots.”

— Stephanie Perkins

54. “People should say what they mean and not make other people stumble around.”

— Stephanie Perkins

55. “Something deep inside me lurched. The stirring was as startling and unpleasant as it was thrilling and revolutionary.”

— Stephanie Perkins

56. “Life is too short to be the same person everyday.”

— Stephanie Perkins

57. “Let’s vow to never become monsters that we are trying to protect ourselves from.”

— Stephanie Perkins

58. “Saw two fallen branches in the shape of a heart. Thought of you.”

— Stephanie Perkins

59. “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

60. “The unexpected explosion of color and noise and beauty in her world has left her awed.”

— Stephanie Perkins

61. “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

62. “For once in your life, listen to your younger sister. She’s taller, and she knows better than you.”

— Stephanie Perkins

63. “You should show encouragement whenever you can. People try harder when they know that someone cares about them.”

— Stephanie Perkins

64. “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

65. “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

66. “The distance between us feels too close, too far, too close.”

— Stephanie Perkins

67. “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

68. “You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.”

— Stephanie Perkins

69. “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

70. “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

71. “People are confusing. They say one thing and mean the other.”

— Stephanie Perkins

72. “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

73. “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

74. “People live through such pain only once; pain comes again, but it finds a tougher surface.”

— Stephanie Perkins

75. “Things are not always how they seem.”

— Stephanie Perkins

76. “Color me intrigued, Martin.”

— Stephanie Perkins

77. “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

78. “They thought puzzle were boring. But I’ve always thought they were satisfying, you know? Each piece having its exact place.”

— Stephanie Perkins

79. “Everybody has at least one moment they deeply regret, but that one moment... it doesn’t define all of you.”

— Stephanie Perkins

80. “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

81. “Makani peered over her grandmother’s shoulder and out the large window that looked across their front lawn. She scanned the yards for the boogeyman, the Babadook, Ted Bundy. The street was empty.”

— Stephanie Perkins

82. “The distance between us grows with each passing minute. Will he take my arm again, or will I have to take his?”

— Stephanie Perkins

83. “If I had a euro for every stupid thing I’ve done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.”

— Stephanie Perkins

84. “I’ve always felt lucky to live someplace where snow is rare, you know? It’s rareness that makes it so speacial.”

— Stephanie Perkins

85. “That being singular is the exact thing that makes something – or someone – amazing.”

— Stephanie Perkins

86. “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.”

— Stephanie Perkins

87. “It was sad that people only got along when everybody was unhappy.”

— Stephanie Perkins

88. “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

89. “I’m not interested in making what’s easy. I’m interested in making what’s beautiful.”

— Stephanie Perkins

90. “It’s become impossible to deny he means something to me.”

— Stephanie Perkins

91. “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

92. “I’m saying I’m in love with you! I’ve been in love with you this whole bleeding year!”

— Stephanie Perkins

93. “To be good at anything you have to practice.”

— Stephanie Perkins

94. “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

95. “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

96. “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

97. “Seriously, I don’t know any American girl who can resist an English accent.”

— Stephanie Perkins

98. “Marigold searched between the trees – free organic hot apple cider clutched between her hands, she was not immune to its lure – and strained her ears over the sounds of laughing children and roaring chain saws. Under any other context, this combination would be alarming. Here, it was positively merry. Or it would’ve been, had her stomach not already been churning with horror-movie-like dread.”

— Stephanie Perkins

99. “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

100. “Y si yo soy las estrellas, Cricket Bell es una galaxia entera.”

— Stephanie Perkins