Top 250 Stephanie Perkins Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I want to feel the creases in his skin, connect his freckles with invisible lines, brush my fingers across the inside of his wrists.”

— Stephanie Perkins

102. “It doesn’t matter. I’m with you. I’m happy to be anywhere with you.”

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

104. “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

105. “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

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

— Stephanie Perkins

107. “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.”

— Stephanie Perkins

108. “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.”

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

111. “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

112. “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.”

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

117. “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

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

121. “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.”

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

124. “Ti amo come si amano certe cose oscure, segretamente, tra l’ombra e l’anima.”

— Stephanie Perkins

125. “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?”

— Stephanie Perkins

126. “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.”

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

132. “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.”

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

134. “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.”

— Stephanie Perkins

135. “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.”

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

137. “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.”

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

139. “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.”

— Stephanie Perkins

140. “Artists are inspired by blank canvases.”

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

143. “I blame it on his pants.”

— Stephanie Perkins

144. “The lines are careful. They reveal he pays attention. People don’t think he does, because he daydreams and skips class and neglects his homework, but when I see his drawings, I know they’re wrong.”

— Stephanie Perkins

145. “Outside, there may be reindeer that fly across the moon. Outside, there may be questions with the wrong answers and lies that are better to tell. Outside, it may be cold. But I am here. I am here, and he is here, and everything I need to know is that I will hold him and he will hold me until I am warm again, until I know I belong.”

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

147. “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.”

— Stephanie Perkins

148. “I pick a fight. I am cruel. I annihilate him.”

— Stephanie Perkins

149. “It’s not right. It hasn’t been right, not since I met you.”

— Stephanie Perkins

150. “Josh grins. It’s wide and relieved and reveals a rarely seen pair of dimples. I could live inside those dimples for the rest of my life.”

— Stephanie Perkins