Top 100 Stephanie Perkins Quotes
#1. And even though he doesn't mean it like I-want-to-leave-my-girlfriend-and-start-dating-you cute, something flickers inside of me. The "force of strength and destruction" Tita de la Garza knew so well.
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#2. I'm empty. I'm drained. And I can't move. Not that I'd want to. Because that's the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don't want to let it go. It becomes a comfort.
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#3. You said on my birthday that you were afraid of being alone, but I've been here this whole time. This whole time.
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#4. If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.
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#5. 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.
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#6. I don't know. No one has ever so completely confounded me the way you do.
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#7. I mean . . . I don't know. I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. I don't know. I like reading about adventure, sure, but I also like doing it from the safety of home. But what is home, besides a quilt-covered bed? Where is it?
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#8. Sorry to be your second choice."
"Don't be stupid. Third choice. Mum's asleep, remember?" He laughs again.
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#9. - and I've clearly freaked you out, and I'm totally mortified, and now I'm going to stop talking, she said. And now I'm going to die.
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#10. It's midnight, it's sweltering, and I might be high on Vicodin, but that guy - that guy right over there - that's him.
The him.
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#11. 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 of the time?
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#12. 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.
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#13. I suddenly understand why people describe kissing as melting because every square inch of my body dissolves into his. My fingers grip his hair, pulling him closer. My veins throb and my heart explodes. I have never wanted anyone like this before. Ever.
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#14. Fairmont wasn't a place where we'd usually spend the afternoon. It was full of overpriced boutiques, overpriced coffee, and Mossley Academy, which was full of overpriced assholes.
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#15. I smile as I leave them, wondering what building my dad would try to save with his writing.Probably a baseball stadium. Or a Burger King.
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#16. What just happened?"
"Your father invited the former love of your life in for pie."
"Yeah, that's what I thought.
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#17. It gets worse. Josh tell her that he loves her. She says it back. He touches her. She touches him back. And then they're losing their virginity on the floor of her bedroom beside her pet rabbit, Isis.
A rabbit.
Josh literally lost his virginity in front of a metaphor for sex.
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#18. He sat on one side of a love seat, leaving space to sit beside him. Was it an invitation? Or a gesture of kindness, in that he was offering me the room's larger couch? WHY WAS THIS SO HARD?
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#20. Because eventually, no matter what the circumstances, he would see the real me. Josh is a beautiful, messy, passionate work of art, and I'm ... a blank canvas. There's nothing here to love.
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#21. Life is not about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get -Dolores Nolan
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#22. But ... she didn't know him, did she? Marigold was suddenly struck by how badly she wanted to know him.
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#23. Beautiful. He called me beautiful! But wait. I don't like Dave. Do I like Dave?
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#24. Cricket Bell." I smiled into my phone. "How did you get so wise?
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#25. But I hurt you." His voice grows quiet. "I wish that I hadn't.
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#26. What ... what about when I'm married?"
"We'll buy a cot. Your husband can sleep on that when he visits.
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#27. You should show encouragement whenever you can. People try harder when they know that someone cares about them.
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#28. I love it when he cocks an eyebrow whenever I say something he finds clever or amusing.
I love listening to his boots clomp across my bedroom ceiling.
I love that the accent over his first name is called an acute accent, and that he has a cute accent.
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#29. It was bad enough that she'd basically skipped Hanukkah this year, but to spend the last night of the Jewish holiday serenading the birth of Jesus. ... Just. No.
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#32. Cricket weaves easily around the other customers as if we're the only two people in the store. The music over the
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#34. YOU feel sorry for ME? I am not the one who has never tasted bread pudding.
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#35. I'm just saying that if it were Anna, I'd want to meet her coworkers. See where she's spending her time."
I stare at him, hard. "Obviously.
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#36. There sure are a lot of stairs. Holy crap,will these things ever end?
Seriously?
MORE STAIRS?
This is ridiculous.I'm never buying a house with stairs.I won't even steps to my front door,just a gradual incline.
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#37. There's something about blue eyes.
The kind of blue that startles you every time they're lifted in your direction. The kind of blue that makes you ache for them to look at you again. Not the blue green or blue gray, the blue that's just blue.
Cricket has those eyes.
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#38. Hot. I've been upgraded to hot.No one has ever called me hot. Cute? Yes. Adorable? yes, often and it makes me want to punch them. I didn't know short girls could even be hot. I thought I'd been permanently relegated to elfin-pixie-child status.
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#39. Please. The boy gets a boner every time you walk into the room.
My eyes pop back open. Does she mean that figuratively or has she actually seen something? No. Focus, Anna.
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#40. 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?
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#41. How could I 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.
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#42. What are we doing?" Mags asked. "I don't know. ... " he said eventually. "I know things have to change, but ... I can't lose you. I don't think I get another one like you.
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#43. Anna: You really think he likes me?
Rashmi: Anna. He teases you all the time. It's classic boy-pulling-girl's-pigtail syndrome. And whenever anyone else even remotely does it, he always takes your side and tells them to shove it.
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#44. What'd I tell you about musicians? That bad boy type will only break your heart.
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#45. People should say what they mean and not make other people stumble around.
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#46. I draw him closer by his tie and whisper into his ear, Cricket Bell, I have been in love with you for my entire life.
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#47. 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-
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#48. Is it weird being in Omaha?" Simini asked her. "Now that everybody's left?" "It's like walking through the mall after it closes," Mags said.
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#50. Being a good person, or a better person, or whatever it is you're worried about and trying to fix? It shouldn't change who you are. It means you become more like yourself.
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#53. Maybe I'm not a brave American, but I think I can be a brave Canadian.
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#54. Because I hate that word. Like being gay is something to be ashamed of. Like because Mer likes sports, it automatically makes her a lesbian. That insult doesn't even make sense.
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#55. Shame leads to secrets, and secrets lead to lies, and lies ruin everything.
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#56. Anna, Anna," Josh interrupts. "If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa. You'll be fine.
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#57. 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
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#58. Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.
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#59. Relax," he says, "You're with me. I'm practically French."
"You're English."
He grins. "I'm American.
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#60. Something deep inside me lurched.
The stirring was as startling and unpleasant as it was thrilling and revolutionary.
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#62. You must think I'm a complete idiot right? That I'm just some doormat who'll wait for you on the sidelines forever? That you can keep running back to her every time things get difficult and I'll just be okay with it?!
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#63. I'm not interested in making what's easy. I'm interested in making what's beautiful.
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#64. The realization is surprising, but the one that follows stuns me even more.
I'm not in love with him anymore.
Instead, looking at him makes me feel ... hollow.
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#65. It's easy to talk about things we hate, but sometimes it's hard to explain exactly why we like something.
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#67. It's all happening at once, but everything I do seems to be wrong
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#68. One regular, clockworkorange88, said this: It sucked balls. Dirty balls. Like I-ran-a-mile-in-July-while-wearing-leather-pants balls.
Sounds about right.
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#69. Lola?" Cricket is on his knees at the side of my bed. I feel it. "I'm here," he whispers. "You can talk to me or not talk to me, but I'm here.
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#70. Do you know my biggest regret?" She asks. "That you turned into this bright, beautiful, fascinating person ... and I can't take credit for any of it.
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#71. I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic.
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#72. School has ruined cinema.It's official. There's nothing worth living for.
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#74. 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.
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#75. I know sneakers aren't very French-I should be wearing pointy boots or scary heels-but at least they aren't white. It's true what they say about white sneakers. Only American tourists wear them,big ugly things made for mowing grass or painting houses.
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#77. 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.
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#78. It's impossible, the not-knowing, but it's better than getting the wrong answer.
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#79. I know. As if I'd ever go for him now that my dad wants me to date him."
"As if you'd ever go for his again."
"Right ... right.
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#80. 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.
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#81. 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?
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#82. Yes, St. Claire. I like you. But I can't say it aloud, because he's my friend. And friends don't let other friends make drunken declarations and expect them to act upon them the next day
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#83. It doesn't matter how much fabric is between us, the solid strength of his body against mine is electric. Charged. And then our arms are enveloping and our fingers are digging and our mouths are searching and our bodies find this lock.
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#84. Pinkie means excited or happy, thumb means thinking or worried. I'm surprised I know
the meaning of these gestures. How closely have I been paying attention to him?
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#85. Thanks. I forgot how to flip off the English. I'll use the correct hand gesture next time."
"My pleasure. Always happy to educate.
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#86. 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?
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#87. And I can no longer remember my name or my country, or even my place in the universe.
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#88. Phones are distracting. The internet is distracting.The way he looked at you? He wasn't distracted. He was consumed.
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#89. Life isn't about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get.
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#91. I like you," he says.
My body is rigid.
"And I don't mean as a friend.
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#93. All I want to do is burrow into his arms and know that everything is still good between us.
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#94. I'm dizzy. It physically hurts to look at him. "I can't breathe."
"Of course you can breathe," Kurt says. "You're breathing right now.
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#95. That was the strangest timing. The strangest. It's like fate, if I believed in fate. I don't know. Maybe I believe in fate now.
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#96. My face is round, and my cheeks are pinchable, and my ears stick out farther than I'd like.
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#97. Because, of course, of how intelligent you are. And funny. Not that you aren't attractive. Because you are. Attractive. Oh, bugger ... "
I wait.
"Are you still there, or did you hang up because I'm such a bleeding idiot?"
"I'm here."
"God, you made me work for that.
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#98. I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
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#99. The towers are illuminated in blue and white lights. They're more disjointed than the buildings in Paris;they have no relationship. They're just stupid rectangles designed to be taller, better than others.
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