Top 100 Stephanie Perkins Quotes
#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
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#2. I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.
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#3. I collapse in bed and fall asleep with me other hand clasped around the blue rubber band. And I dream about blue eyes and blue nails and first-kiss lips dusted with blue sugar crystals.
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#4. I spent the period reading the first novel assigned for English. And wow. If I hadn't realized I was in France yet, I do now. Because Like Water for Chocolate has sex in it. LOTS of sex.
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#5. My parents aren't hippies. I'm North as in the North Pole. Unfortunately. My brother is Nicholas, and my sister is Noelle.
Wow. God. That's
About a hundred times worse than your name.
I was going to say devoted. Festively devoted.
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#6. To her amazement,Ellie breaks into an ear-to-ear smile.Oddly enough, it's this moment I realize that despite her husky voice and Parisian attire,she's sort of...plain. But friendly-looking.
That still doesn't mean I like her.
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#7. I wish he would look at me the way he looks at his subjects. Because then he'd see there's more to me than shy, just like I see there's more to him than slacker
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#8. And for the first time since coming home, i'm completely happy. It's strange. Home ... to be here, in my technical house, and discover now someplace different ... Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place? ... For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person. And we're finally home.
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#9. I've always felt lucky to live someplace where snow is rare, you know? It's rareness that makes it so speacial.
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#11. Girls were supposed to be happy that someone wanted them, as though they were kittens in a basket, and any left by day's end would be drowned in the pond.
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#14. 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?
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#16. She kissed his lips then. They tasted of apples and cheese, of the revelation of things you never imagined going so well together. She tasted meting ice cream, too, melting defenses, herself melting into Russell.
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#17. It's Sunday night," he continues. "You aren't at Pizza Pellino."
"No, I'm at the Treehouse with Hattie." And then I'm so dizzy my vision goes black. "How ... how did you know that I'm not there?"
"Because I'm here.
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#18. 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.
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#19. Soap?"
"School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP".
Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed.
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#20. 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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#21. He raises his voice so that I can hear him through the glass door. "Get some rest, Loopy. Sweet dreams."
"Sweet," I echo. "Dream.
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#22. It's amazing how clothing affects how people see - or don't see - you.
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#23. I doubted myself, and that made me doubt you. But you weren't the problem. You were never the problem. I should have trusted you, but I didn't, because I couldn't trust myself.
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#24. 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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#25. You'll be reading the breakfast menu without me before you know it.
Hmm, maybe I don't want to learn French
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#26. I want to kiss him for the rest of the night, for the rest of our lives. The one.
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#28. But we stayed together, because I don't know why. Maybe because we though we should be in love. At least I did. I wanted to be in love.
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#30. We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here," I whisper.
"Are you getting your ax?"
"Handcuffs."
"Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it.
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#31. 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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#34. I'm not even embarrassed to hug my parents in public. Except when Nathan wears a sweatband when he goes running. Because really!
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#35. If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.
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#36. 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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#37. I've never ditched. I don't understand how he can just shrug everything off.
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#38. I don't know. No one has ever so completely confounded me the way you do.
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#39. I don't actually have any accounts, because social networking has always felt like a popularity contest to me. A public record of my own inadequacies.
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#40. 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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#41. Sorry to be your second choice."
"Don't be stupid. Third choice. Mum's asleep, remember?" He laughs again.
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#42. - 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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#43. History books are filled with lies. Whoever wins the war tells the story.
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#44. He takes my hands into his.Those perfect hands, that fit mine just so.
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#45. He shakes his head. His dark messy hair has a few curls in it today.It's quite breathtaking,really.If there were an Olympics competition in hair, St. Clair would totally win,hands down. Ten-point-oh.Gold medal.
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#47. I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!
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#48. I'd like to point out that we've had zero problem reaching each other's mouths.
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#51. 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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#52. Toph kicks over the microphone stand in a grand, asshole gesture, and the three of them jump off the stage. It's a little less dramatic when they have to come right back to take apart their stuff before the next band comes on.
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#53. When it's right, it's simple," he says to my unasked question. "Unlike your hair.
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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. 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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#58. 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?
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#59. 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.
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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. 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.
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#63. 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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#64. That being singular is the exact thing that makes something
or someone
amazing.
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#65. It's maddening how someone so easy to read can be so impossible to understand.
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#66. He punished the naughty and rewarded the nice. Just like someone else who wore a lot of red. Scramble the letters in S-A-N-T-A and you get S-A-T-A-N.
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#67. 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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#68. 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!
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#70. I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [ ... ]
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#71. Nathan nods. "Have a good time. Don't do anything I wouldn't do." I hear Andy as I'm walking out the front door. "Honey, that threat doesn't work when you're gay.
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#72. You say that I'm afraid of being alone, and it's true. I am. And I'm not proud of it. But you need to take a good look at yourself, Anna, because I am NOT the only one in this room who suffers this problem.
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#73. You've crafted this bored veneer, but you're always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter.
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#74. Well, bloody noses." I hug his coat tighter. "Those are definitely hot.
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#75. 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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#76. I don't care what he thinks. Only what you think." He holds me tighter. "Like if you think I need to stop biting my nails."
"You've worn your pinkies to nubs," I say cheerfully.
"Or if I need to start ironing my bed spread."
"I DO NOT IRON MY BED SPREAD."
"You do. And I love it.
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#78. When you're asleep, no one asks you to do anything. No one expects anything of you. And you don't have to face any of your troubles.
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#79. I can't imagine Josh falling for someone vanilla.
Not that Josh would ever fall for me.
But I wouldn't want to ruin any chance.
Even though I don't have a chance.
But just in case I do.
Even though I don't.
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#80. 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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#82. Life is not about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get -Dolores Nolan
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#83. But ... she didn't know him, did she? Marigold was suddenly struck by how badly she wanted to know him.
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#84. Beautiful. He called me beautiful! But wait. I don't like Dave. Do I like Dave?
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#85. Why did you want me to dress warmly?" she asks. "Are you taking me to a Siberian prison?"
"Nope."
"Abandoned research station in Antarctica?"
"Nope."
"You're taking me to practice for our two-person skeleton race at the Olympics."
"Yes.
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#88. Cricket Bell." I smiled into my phone. "How did you get so wise?
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#89. There were no glimmering moments where their looks hooked on to each other and grew hot, and no catching sight of one of the boys in a ray of sun and thinking, I wonder what his skin tastes like.
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#90. You've spent all this time afraid to talk about what was going on between you two, but if you'd ever bothered to ask him, you would have discovered that he wasn't worth it.
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#91. North whipped around to stare at her. For a moment, his expression was ureadable. And then ... he smiled. It was warm-unexpectedly warm-and it made Marigold feel the teensiest bit calmer.
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#93. 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.
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#94. But I hurt you." His voice grows quiet. "I wish that I hadn't.
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#95. Hi," I whisper.
He peels off my hands and turns toward the aisle. "Please don't make this any harder than it already is," he whispers back.
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#96. Sometimes I think there are only so many opportunities ... to get together with someone. And we've both screwed up so many times" - my voice grows quiet - "that we've missed our chance.
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#97. 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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#98. Because I don't want to be alone right now." His voice echoes through the night.
I turn around to face him one last time. "You weren't alone, asshole.
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#100. You should show encouragement whenever you can. People try harder when they know that someone cares about them.
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