Stella Grant Quotes

“I never understood the importance of touch, his touch . . . until I couldn’t have it.

- Stella Grant”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“He was my best friend and I never hugged him.

- Stella Grant”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“I love him. And he’s about to leave my life forever so that I can have a life to live.

- Stella Grant”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“Thirty-five percent is a number that keeps my mom up at night. She doesn’t say it, but her computer does.

- Stella Grant”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“When you have CF, you sort of get used to the idea of dying young.

- Stella Grant”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“People are always looking at my cannula, my scars, my G-tube, not at me.

- Stella Grant”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“Another step back. And another, his footsteps crunching in the freshly fallen snow. His eyes are locked on mine, daring me to say something, to stop him. Challenging me to call out to him.

- Stella Grant”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“And even though he’s the actual worst . . .
I don’t want him to die.

- Stella Grant”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“Thank you,” I say.
“For what?” he asks, looking up to meet my eyes.
“For saying something real.”"

- Stella Grant”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“I know in that moment, even though it could not be more ridiculous, that if I die in there, I won’t die without falling in love.

- Stella Grant”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“Promise?” I ask.
He nods and stretches his arm out, holding up a gloved pinky across the distance. I take it and we pinky promise. The smallest contact, but the first time we’ve ever touched.

- Stella Grant”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“His voice catches in his throat, and I know.
I know in that moment that this “little thing” between us isn’t over. It’s just starting.

- Stella Grant”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“Our eyes locked on each other’s as we struggle for air.
For once, it has nothing to do with our CF.

- Stella Grant”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“Stella looks at me across the table, the look in her hazel eyes by far the best birthday present I could ever get.

- Will”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart