Stephanie Perkins Quotes
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A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.
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Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.
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I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!
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Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?
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What’d I tell you about musicians? That bad boy type will only break your heart.
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I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. "Is this okay?" I whisper. "Are you okay?" His reply is anguished. Honest. "I love you."
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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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If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.
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Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.
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My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.
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Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.
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Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.
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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.
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I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.
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There are some people in life that you can't get over.
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Life isn't about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get.
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Boys turns girls into such idiots.
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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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Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.
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The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
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You should show encouragement whenever you can. People try harder when they know that someone cares about them.
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How could I have ever for a moment believed I wasn't in love with him?
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For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
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I'm not interested in making what's easy. I'm interested in making what's beautiful.