Stephanie Perkins famous quotes

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Acceptance #Upset #Want

Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Real #Mean #Creating

For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Romantic #Home #Two

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Fashion #Life Is Too Short #Believe

I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Children #Growing Up #Hands

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?
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Emotion #Twisted

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?
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Wish #Needs #Want

How could I have ever for a moment believed I wasn't in love with him?
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Moments

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

#Falling In Love #Wish #World

Life isn't about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get.
-- Stephanie Perkins

I'm not interested in making what's easy. I'm interested in making what's beautiful.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Beautiful #Easy #Not Interested

I didn't know it was possible to simultaneously hate and ache for someone.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Hate #Ache

You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Listening #Opinion #Stereotype

It's ridiculous how difficult a question can be when the answer means so much.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Mean #Answers #Ridiculous

Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Forget #Easy #Umbrella

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?
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Wind #People #Together

Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Girl #Boys #Drunk

I wish for the thing that is best for me.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Wish

Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Girl #Accents

What’d I tell you about musicians? That bad boy type will only break your heart.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Heart #Boys #Musician

My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Nervous #Natural #My Smile

What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Choices #Parent #Wanted

I don’t understand why things always go from perfect to weird with us. It’s like we’re incapable of normal human interaction.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Perfect #Normal #Humans

Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Thinking #Perfect #Way

Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Mistake #Important #Making Mistakes

I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [...]
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Silence #Best Relationship #Action

There are some people in life that you can't get over.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#People #Get Over

You read a lot. - Safer than going on a real adventure
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Real #Adventure

A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Canvas #Possibility #Blank

I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Love #Love You #Years

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."
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Love #Hands #Honest

I am hard on myself. But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself?
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Life #Heart #Use

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.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Challenges #Looks #Pace

If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Stupid #Done #Mona Lisa

Boys turns girls into such idiots.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Girl #Boys #Idiot

Because that's the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don't want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lunges. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It's mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Depression #Long #Let It Go