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“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“She didn’t sound overjoyed. She didn’t sound even slightly joyed.”
― Sarah Mayberry, Can't Get Enough

“There was a group of fans who wanted autographs, and several women who managed to write their phone numbers on Wade's hand before he pulled free.
Sam sent him an arched brow, but he just shrugged. He got numbers written on him a lot; he'd never figured out how to stop that from happening.”
― Jill Shalvis, Slow Heat

“It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.”
― Nora Roberts, The Perfect Hope

“It’s good to be with someone when you know you matter. Not assume,” she qualified, “but know. To be with someone, who even when you don’t think you want or need it, will stand up for you. Someone who sends you flowers and buys you magic wands. I’m not going to look around the corner for what’s next.”
― Nora Roberts, The Perfect Hope

“But you stand up for me. You tell me the truth. You make me laugh, and you make me want. You let me be and feel who I am. And you fell in love with me even when you didn’t want to.”
― Nora Roberts, The Perfect Hope

“Feelings need to be expressed, Hope. They aren’t always understood the way people like to assume.”
― Nora Roberts, The Perfect Hope

“A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“They say money talks, but all mine ever says is 'good-bye sucker.”
― Jill Shalvis, Head Over Heels

“We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here," I whisper.
"Are you getting your ax?"
"Handcuffs."
"Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“We straighten , bu our snickering is barely contained as we attempt to focus our attention on a picture of a discarded Coke can. "This guy's lady love is kind of a slob, don't you think?" he whispers.
I cover my mouth with my hands again.
"A reaaaaaaaal litterbug."
"Stop it," I hiss. My eyes are watering. "Ohmygod look at this one! How did he get her toenail clippings?"
"If you were my girl," he whispers, "I'd take creepy pictures of your trash when I knew you weren't looking."
"If you were my girl," I whisper back," I"d put the creepy pictures in a foreign museum so you wouldn't know that I take creepy pictures.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“I'd like to point out that we've had zero problem reaching each other's mouths.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“The way he looked at you? He wasn’t distracted. He was consumed.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“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.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“I don't care about anything. But I care about you.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“The feeling is that we have everything to say. And where do you begin with everything?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“Our fingers are in each other's hair, and his breath is in the hallow of my neck, and 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.”
― Stephanie Perkins

“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.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“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, Anna and the French Kiss

“I like you. And I don't mean as a friend.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“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, Anna and the French Kiss

“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

“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, Anna and the French Kiss

“But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

“His name explodes inside of me like cannon fire.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

“You'll come home soon?" I ask.
The question makes him smile. "Promise you won't forget me while I'm gone?"
I smile back. "I promise."
And as I walk away, I realize that I have no idea how I'll manage to stop thinking about him.”
― stephanie perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

“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, Anna and the French Kiss

“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, Anna and the French Kiss

“I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s okay to be a blank canvas. Maybe it’s okay that my future is unknown. And maybe,” I say with another smile, “it’s okay to be inspired by the people who do know their future.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey