Top 250 Stephanie Perkins Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I don’t understand why things always go from perfect to weird with us. It’s like we’re incapable of normal human interaction.”

— Stephanie Perkins

102. “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-.”

— Stephanie Perkins

103. “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.”

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

105. “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

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

109. “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

110. “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

111. “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

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

114. “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

115. “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

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

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

— Stephanie Perkins

130. “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

131. “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

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

— Stephanie Perkins

133. “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

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

— Stephanie Perkins

135. “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

136. “Artists are inspired by blank canvases.”

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

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142. “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

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

— Stephanie Perkins

144. “Is it possible for a home to be a person and not a place? Brigette used to be home to me. Maybe St. Clair is my new home.”

— Stephanie Perkins

145. “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.”

— Stephanie Perkins

146. “Any bloke with a working prick would be insane not to like you. There’s a shocked pause, on both ends of the line. Because, of course, of how intelligent you are. And funny.”

— Stephanie Perkins

147. “Here’s the thing about Cricket Bell. You can’t NOT notice him when he walks into a room. The first thing that registers is his height, but it’s quickly followed by recognition of his energy. He moves gracefully like his sister, but with an enthusiasm he can’t quite control- the constantly moving body, hands, feet. He’s been subdued the last few times I’ve seen him, but he’s fully revived now.”

— Stephanie Perkins

148. “I blame it on his pants.”

— Stephanie Perkins

149. “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

150. “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