Stephanie Perkins Quotes

I didn't know it was possible to simultaneously hate and ache for someone.

You should show encouragement whenever you can. People try harder when they know that someone cares about them.

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

Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within the story.

How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?

I am hard on myself. But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself?

A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

How could I have ever for a moment believed I wasn't in love with him?

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.

Because that's the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don't want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lunges. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It's mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time.

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

I'm not interested in making what's easy. I'm interested in making what's beautiful.

I don’t understand why things always go from perfect to weird with us. It’s like we’re incapable of normal human interaction.

Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.

There are some people in life that you can't get over.

So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?

I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. "Is this okay?" I whisper. "Are you okay?" His reply is anguished. Honest. "I love you."

It's ridiculous how difficult a question can be when the answer means so much.

Life isn't about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get.

Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.

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

I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.

You read a lot. - Safer than going on a real adventure

I wish the world would swallow us here, whole, in this moment. And that's when it hits me that this - this - is falling in love.

I wish for the thing that is best for me.

For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

Boys turns girls into such idiots.

You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.

Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.

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

I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [...]

I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.

Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?

I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.