Stephanie Perkins Quotes

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

“I’m teleporting to Atlanta. I’m picking you up, and we’ll go someplace where our families can’t find us. We’ll take Seany. And we’ll let him run laps until he tires, and then you and I will take a long walk. Like Thanksgiving. Remember? And we’ll talk about everything BUT our parents … or perhaps we won’t talk at all. We’ll just walk. And we’ll keep walking until the rest of the world ceases to exist.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“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, Anna and the French Kiss

“Thank you for helping my sister,” he says.
I lean forward, mimicking his position. “I’m happy to.”
Calliope leans out her window. “STOP FLIRTING AND GET BACK TO WORK.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

“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

“Así pues, ¿qué deseo? ¿Algo que no sé si quiero? ¿A alguien que no sé si me conviene? ¿A alguien que sé que no puedo tener?
A la mierda. Que lo decida la suerte.
«Deseo lo que sea mejor para mí.»
Toma generalización.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

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

“What's wrong with me? Why do I always fall for the wrong guy?”
― Stephanie Perkins

“The kind of person who radiates a natural magnetic field, who everyone is drawn to, who everyone is dazzled by.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“And then this—the moment he calls my name—is the real moment everything changes.

He is no longer St. Clair, everyone's pal, everyone's friend.

He is Etienne, like the night we met. He is Etienne; he is my friend.

He is so much more.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“How can I be afraid of being alone, if it's the only thing I've been lately?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“Thank you for being you, because you are my favorite.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“What are you doing here?' Her lips twisted with displeasure.

'I just saved your friend's life.' Chaos replied sharply.

And was it just Evangeline's imagination, or did he puff out his chest?
...
'Well, I'm here now, so-' Lala waved a hand toward the forest.

'Did you just dismiss me?' Castor asked.

'I tried,' Lala said.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“...and that I shouldn't let him get to me. Which was sweet, but didn't really help.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“The only consistent bright spot has been St. Clair. We talk every day—calls, emails, texts.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“How could she keep this a secret from me? Her betrayal is infinitely more painful.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“And for the first time since coming home, I'm completely happy. It's strange. Home. How I could 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.

But that's not quite right either.

I miss Paris, but it's not home. It's more like...I miss this. This warmth over the telephone. Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“I mean, who needs Christopher when Etienne St. Clair is in the world?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“I like your smile.'
I like yours, too.
But I don't have the courage to say it aloud.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“My wardrobe isn't exactly stocked with clothes for barhopping.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“...and though I've only known Paris for the last nine months, it's changed me. I have a new city to learn next year, but I'm not scared.
Because I was right. 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

“Thank you for believing in me. If I could, I would name a moon or a planet or an entire galaxy after you.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“It's not often in life that we get what we wish for. I am still pinching myself.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“It is this simple: I would not have survived last year without you. It's an honor to travel this strange path together.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“The end of love. It’s something that hurts, that I can’t seem to get out, that keeps me up in the early morning. I think that maybe if I could do something with it, write it on my body forever, I could get it out of my heart.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories

“Everyone else wanted something from me some kind of reassurance that I was okay, even though I wasn’t okay. Or they wanted to make it easier for me, like losing your father mother is supposed to be easy. But you just wanted me to know you were there.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories

“Sometimes I get mad when people don’t remember the day my mom died”
― Stephanie Perkins, Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories

“I know how it feels when people are so horrified by the way someone who was close to you died that you end up trying to make them feel better about their reaction.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories