Quotes About Anna And The French Kiss

#1. For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person. And we're finally home."

Stephanie Perkins - Anna and the French Kiss

Stephanie Perkins

#2. My mind wanders to the other side of the courtyard, where St. Clair waits with Josh in Q-through-Z. I wonder if I have any classes with him. I mean, them. Classes with them.

Stephanie Perkins

#3. Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come.

Stephanie Perkins

#4. Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing.

Robert Bresson

#5. You're the most incredible girl I've ever known. You're gorgeous and smart, and you make me laugh like no-one else can. And I can talk to you. And I know after all this I don't deserve you, but what I'm trying to say is that I love you, Anna. Very Much.

Stephanie Perkins

#6. I'm in love with my new best friend.

Stephanie Perkins

#7. My head jerks up in embarassment, but he's smiling. I drop my face, so that my hair shields my cheeks. They blush more for his smile than anything else.

Stephanie Perkins

#8. Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of how I appeared to others, but of how I appeared to myself, especially in violating self-imposed prohibitions.

Hanif Kureishi

#9. I said you were beautiful. I slept in your bed!

Stephanie Perkins

#10. The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE!

Stephanie Perkins

#12. I was there that first night her called you. I've seen how he looked at you in pictures. Any bloke with a working prick would be insane not to like you.

Stephanie Perkins

#13. The thing I'm trying to ignore. The thing I shouldn't want, the thing I can't have.
And he's standing in front of me right now.
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?
Screw it. Let the fates decide.

Stephanie Perkins

#14. For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#15. We still hate Bridgette, right? I haven't missed anything?

Stephanie Perkins

#16. St. Clair: So did you enjoy the book?
Anna: I did. Did you?
St. Clair: I like the author's name the best. Ba-nah-na.

Stephanie Perkins

#17. 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.

Stephanie Perkins

#18. I like you. And I don't mean as a friend.

Stephanie Perkins

#19. We stop at a red light.Mom stares at me."You like him"
"OH GOD,MOM."
"You do.You like this boy."
"He's just a friend.He has a girlfriend."
"Anna has a boooy-friend," Seany chants.
"I do not!"
"ANNA HAS A BOOOY-FRIEND!

Stephanie Perkins

#20. I risk a glance, and St. Clair stares back. Deeply. He has not looked at me like this before. I turn away first, then feel him turn a few beats later.
I know he is smiling, and my heart races.

Stephanie Perkins

#21. Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

#22. Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.

Mircea Eliade

#23. You'll be so busy with Bridge and what's-his-name that you'll forget all about your English mate, St. Clair."
"Ha! So you are English!" I poke him in the stomach.
He grabs my hand and we wrestle, laughing. "I claim ... no ... nationality.

Stephanie Perkins

#24. Foomp! My inner fire ignites.

Stephanie Perkins