Top 250 Stephanie Perkins Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “He tastes like my deepest craving fulfilled.”

— Stephanie Perkins

152. “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

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

155. “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

156. “The feeling is that we have everything to say. And where do you begin with everything?”

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157. “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.”

— Stephanie Perkins

158. “Summoning those memories was like touching a burning pot. She could do it only briefly before she had to pull away.”

— Stephanie Perkins

159. “They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE!”

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160. “As far as you go, he believes in what he does, and in second chances. He loves people. I’d go so far as to say he loves you.” Loved me? “Why? I don’t follow the rules. Aren’t religious people into rules?” “Rules make people feel safe. But they can turn into judgments. Condemnation is easy, Vaughn. The harder choice is love, and it’s one my dad makes every day.”

— Stephanie Perkins

161. “Did you wake me up... to talk about candy?”

— Stephanie Perkins

162. “One of the new girls followed me in and said she thinks Toph is an insensitive douchebag motherhumping assclown, and that I shouldn’t let him get to me. Which was sweet, but didn’t really help.”

— Stephanie Perkins

163. “When two people are in love, it’s supposed to work. It has to work. No matter how difficult the circumstances are.”

— Stephanie Perkins

164. “There’s another uncomfortable tug on my heart. 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 the time?”

— Stephanie Perkins

165. “We talk about the shiny little nothings we see – people and cars and cathedrals, even la Tour Eiffel – but it’s not that we don’t have anything meaningful to say. The feeling is that we have everything to say. And where do you begin with everything?”

— Stephanie Perkins

166. “There’s no reason to suffer this flight alone when we can suffer it together.”

— Stephanie Perkins

167. “I wish for the thing that is best for me.”

— Stephanie Perkins

168. “St. Clair wanders around, picking up things and examining them like I did in Meredith’s room. He inspects the collection of banana and elephant figurines lined up on my dresser. He holds up a glass elephant and raises his dark eyebrows in question.”

— Stephanie Perkins

169. “And then the darkness gives way to white neon. An Art Deco font, burning into the night, announces our arrival at the CINEMA LE CHAMPO. The letters dwarf me. Cinema. Has there ever been a more beautiful word? My heart soars as we pass the colorful film posters and walk through the gleaming glass doors. The lobby is smaller than what I’m used to, and though it’s missing the tang of artificially buttered popcorn, there’s something in the air I recognize, something both musty and comforting.”

— Stephanie Perkins

170. “You read a lot. – Safer than going on a real adventure.”

— Stephanie Perkins

171. “I don’t actually have any accounts, because social networking has always felt like a popularity contest to me. A public record of my own inadequacies.”

— Stephanie Perkins

172. “Not always getting what you want, but sometimes getting what you need.”

— Stephanie Perkins

173. “I have the strangest feeling that he’s aware of me as I am of him.”

— Stephanie Perkins

174. “It’s strange. Home. How I could wish for it so long, only to come back and find it gone.”

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

176. “It’s so Hogwarts.”

— Stephanie Perkins

177. “I finally realized how absurd it was that I’d worried so much about what my classmates thought about me. It’s not like I wanted to look like them.”

— Stephanie Perkins

178. “You’ve crafted this bored veneer, but you’re always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter.”

— Stephanie Perkins

179. “You’re so bad at good-byes, he whispers in my ear. Which is true. There is an average of about forty-seven minutes between the time we first type “goodnight” and the moment we actually stop sending our words back and forth.”

— Stephanie Perkins

180. “I don’t know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas tree agnostic.” He smiles. “I like it and you’re a Yom Kippur atheist.”

— Stephanie Perkins

181. “Seriously. We were never like that were we?”

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182. “Love can be so sttange and sad. It can be hard to understand why we run toward certain people and away from others at different times in our lives. Why we search so hard for that thing we are looking for, and the run so fast when we find it. Sick Pleasure – Francesca Lia Block.”

— Stephanie Perkins

183. “In Paris, it’s common to acknowledge someone attractive. The French don’t avert their gaze like other cultures do. Haven’t you noticed?”

— Stephanie Perkins

184. “It was the most popular tree-buying destination in Asheville. Lots were everywhere in the mountains of North Carolina – this was Christmas-tree-farm country, after all – so to distinguish themselves, the Drummonds offered friendliness and tradition and atmosphere. And free organic hot apple cider. Asheville loved anything organic. It was that type of town.”

— Stephanie Perkins

185. “I’ve learned that if I never leave those areas of my life that feel comfortable, I’ll never have a chance at a greater happiness.”

— Stephanie Perkins

186. “Zeke doesn’t talk,” said Lena. “Why not?” asked Arlo. Lena shrugged. “He never said.” She pointed to the front of the crowd. “Brice is about to start.”

— Stephanie Perkins

187. “I need you to be my person,” Mags said. “I need to see you. And hear you. I need you to stay alive. And I need you to stop kissing other people just because they’re standing next to you when the ball drops.”

— Stephanie Perkins

188. “How could I have ever for a moment believed I wasn’t in love with him?”

— Stephanie Perkins

189. “When it’s right, it’s simple,” he says to my unasked question. “Unlike your hair.”

— Stephanie Perkins

190. “El mundo guarda silencio salvo por los latidos constantes de nuestros corazones.”

— Stephanie Perkins

191. “I am worried about being in love, because it involves asking so much. I am worried that my life will never fit into his. That I will never know him. That he will never know me. That we get to hear the stories, but never get to hear the full truth.”

— Stephanie Perkins

192. “How does one proceed in a situation like this? If only the discovery of mutual admiration could lead promptly into making out. If only I could say, ‘Listen. I like you, and you like me, so let’s go find a secluded park and touch each other.”

— Stephanie Perkins

193. “But, for me, yes. I have to be with Anna. But this is something you have to figure out on your own.”

— Stephanie Perkins

194. “Put this on your list of things to know: the combination of tinsel, baby angel wings, and manger hay burns like weed at a Miley Cyrus concert.”

— Stephanie Perkins

195. “But I could be mistaking our friendship for something more, because I want to mistake it for something more.”

— Stephanie Perkins

196. “So he started writing these novels set in Small Town Georgia about folks with Good American Values who Fall in Love and then contract Life-Threatening Diseases and Die. I’m.”

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197. “Tomorrow. Right now, I only want you.”

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198. “YOU feel sorry for ME? I am not the one who has never tasted bread pudding.”

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199. “He was the kind of beautiful that got under your skin.”

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200. “Andy once clipped a magazine article about how black dogs are always the last to be adopted at shelters and, therefore, more likely to be put down. Which is totally Dog Racism, if you ask me.”

— Stephanie Perkins