Stephanie Perkins Quote

Finally, I laugh. Genuine and normal sounding. And then my date says the best thing that he couldpossibly say: It’s okay. I haven’t been on one of these [dates] in a while either.My smile triples in size.Josh grins. Just give me your hand.W–what?Your hand, he repeats. Give it to me.I extend my shaking right hand. And – in a moment that is a hundred dreams come true – JoshuaWasserstein laces his fingers through mine. A staggering shock of energy shoots straight into myveins. Straight into my heart.There, he says. I’ve been waiting a long time to do that.

Stephanie Perkins

Finally, I laugh. Genuine and normal sounding. And then my date says the best thing that he couldpossibly say: It’s okay. I haven’t been on one of these [dates] in a while either.My smile triples in size.Josh grins. Just give me your hand.W–what?Your hand, he repeats. Give it to me.I extend my shaking right hand. And – in a moment that is a hundred dreams come true – JoshuaWasserstein laces his fingers through mine. A staggering shock of energy shoots straight into myveins. Straight into my heart.There, he says. I’ve been waiting a long time to do that.

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About Stephanie Perkins

Stephanie Perkins is an American author, known for her books Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, The New York Times bestseller Isla and the Happily Ever After, and, There's Someone Inside Your House, the latter of which was adapted into a film of the same name by Netflix.