Top 250 Stephanie Perkins Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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-.”

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102. “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.”

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103. “But it’s a person’s imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.”

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104. “It’s ridiculous how difficult a question can be when the answer means so much.”

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105. “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?”

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106. “And I hold my head high toward my big entrance, hand in hand with the boy who gave me the moon and the stars.”

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107. “I want to feel the creases in his skin, connect his freckles with invisible lines, brush my fingers across the inside of his wrists.”

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

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109. “I don’t understand why things always go from perfect to weird with us. It’s like we’re incapable of normal human interaction.”

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110. “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.”

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111. “They didn’t talk much, but their silence was companionable.”

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

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113. “Is it possible that I’m worthy of being loved by someone whom I love?”

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114. “What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice.”

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115. “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.”

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116. “My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.”

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117. “It’s maddening how someone so easy to read can be so impossible to understand.”

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118. “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.”

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119. “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.”

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120. “I want to kiss him for the rest of the night, for the rest of our lives. The one.”

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121. “I’m just as big a fool as the rest of them.”

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122. “I’m a little distracted by this English French American Boy Masterpiece.”

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123. “It’s the beginning of everything.”

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124. “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.”

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125. “What’d I tell you about musicians? That bad boy type will only break your heart.”

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126. “It’s not stupid to want to put on a pretty dress and feel beautiful for a night.”

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127. “I wasn’t being a git. I wasn’t even being a twat, or a wanker, or any of your other bleeding Briticisms -.”

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128. “What do you say to someone who is not the same and yet completely the same?”

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129. “Everyone is worthy of love.” – Hattie.”

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130. “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.”

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131. “It’s about isolation and loneliness, but it’s also about friendship. Being exactly what the other person needs.”

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132. “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.”

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133. “Beautiful. He called me beautiful! But wait. I don’t like Dave. Do I like Dave?”

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134. “He tastes like champagne. He tastes like desire. He tastes like my deepest craving fulfilled.”

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135. “Some of us wear our hearts. Some of us carry them.”

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136. “Josh is a romantic. He likes being in love, and he craves love to fill the void left by his absentee parents. Maybe our relationship didn’t happen quickly because we’re perfect for each other, but because we each got swept away by it – him because of this insatiable need, me because of my pre-existing crush. Did those three years of longing cloud my perception of reality? How well do I really know him? Since I’ve last seen him in person, I’ve been faced with several incarnations that I didn’t even know existed.”

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137. “Ese beso nos proporciona la fortaleza suficiente para afrontar nuestro futuro.”

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138. “Hand in hand with the boy who gave me the moon and the stars.”

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139. “I didn’t know it was possible to simultaneously hate and ache for someone.”

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140. “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.”

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141. “And if I’m the stars, Cricket Bell is entire galaxies.”

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142. “The room is full of adult Honeywells talking about the things that Honeywells always talk about, which is to say everything, horses and houses and God and grouting, tanning salons and – of course – theater. Always theater. Honeywells like to talk. When Honeywells have no lines to speak, they improvise. All the world’s a stage.”

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143. “Isla... why do you think that Josh didn’t love you?” 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.”

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144. “He tastes like my deepest craving fulfilled.”

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145. “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.”

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146. “Mademoiselle Oliphant. It translates to ‘Point zero of the roads of France.’ In other words, it’s the point from which all other distances in France are measured.” St. Clair clears his throat. “It’s the beginning of everything.” I look back up. He’s smiling. “Welcome to Paris, Anna. I’m glad you’ve come.”

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147. “Artists are inspired by blank canvases.”

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148. “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.”

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149. “I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s okay to be a blank canvas. maybe it’s okay that my future is unknown.”

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150. “I blame it on his pants.”

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