Stephanie Perkins Quotes

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

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.

I've spent many dark nights trying to forget about Cricket. It doesn't feel fair that he could have forgotten about me.

If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the

If you were my girl, he says, but there’s an explosion outside in the courtyard, and I miss the punchline. Fireworks crackle in showers of pink, green, blue, white, green, pink, orange. The museum-goe...

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.

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

Is there a chance if your Lola ? Only if the other person is Cricket

Isla was named after something, too, you know. Don’t you dare, I say. Josh sits forward. His eyes shine. Do tell. Prince. Edward. Island,

Isla. Josh’s voice catches on my name. You look beautiful.Because I see it in his eyes, I feel it in my heart. He takes my hand. His skin touches mine, and he’s real again. And then we lose restraint,...

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.

It doesn't matter. I'm with you. I'm happy to be anywhere with you.

It's why she's always switching coaches, and it's why she'd rather get third instead of second. When she gets third, at least she's happy to have placed. But second. That's too close to first.

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

It’s strange. Home. How I could wish for it for so long, only to come back and find it gone. To be here, in my technical house, and discover that home is now someplace different.

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-Joshua Wasserstein laces his fingers t...

Josh: So. Saturday. I'm out of detention at eighteen hours. Anytime you want to meet after that ..Isla: Yeah?Josh: You know that because you asked me out, you're the one who has to pick the place, rig...

Lola: No, I don't love Max anymore. But I don't want to give you this broken, empty me. I want you to have me when I'm full, when I can give something back to you. I don't have much to give right now....

Love can be so strange 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...

Marigold wondered if that were true. It was nice to think that she might have a superpower, even a dumb one, hidden inside of her. What might it be?