Stephanie Perkins
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.Collection: Life
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.Collection: Love
I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.Collection: Fashion
I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!Collection: Love
There are some people in life that you can't get over.Collection: People
If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.Collection: Stupid
A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.Collection: Canvas
I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.Collection: Perfect
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?Collection: Wind
Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.Collection: Mistake
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?Collection: Emotion
Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.Collection: Real
I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [...]Collection: Silence
It's ridiculous how difficult a question can be when the answer means so much.Collection: Mean
You should show encouragement whenever you can. People try harder when they know that someone cares about them.Collection: Encouragement
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.Collection: Children
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?Collection: Wish
Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.Collection: Forget
I'm not interested in making what's easy. I'm interested in making what's beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
I don’t understand why things always go from perfect to weird with us. It’s like we’re incapable of normal human interaction.Collection: Perfect
I didn't know it was possible to simultaneously hate and ache for someone.Collection: Hate
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?Collection: Life
Boys turns girls into such idiots.Collection: Girl
My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.Collection: Nervous
How could I have ever for a moment believed I wasn't in love with him?Collection: Moments
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.Collection: Depression
Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.Collection: Girl
I wish for the thing that is best for me.Collection: Wish
What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice.Collection: Choices
You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.Collection: Listening
You read a lot. - Safer than going on a real adventureCollection: Real
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."Collection: Love
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.Collection: Challenges
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.Collection: Falling In Love
Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.Collection: Girl
What’d I tell you about musicians? That bad boy type will only break your heart.Collection: Heart
You’re the most incredible girl I’ve ever known. You’re gorgeous and smart, and you make me laugh like no one else can. And I can talk to you. And I know after all this I don’t deserve you, but what I’m trying to say is that I love you, Anna. Very much.Collection: Romance
Welcome to Paris, Anna. I’m glad you’ve come.Collection: Romance
Let’s vow to never become monsters that we are trying to protect ourselves from.Collection: Romance
The distance between us feels too close, too far, too close.Collection: Romance
People are confusing. They say one thing and mean the other.Collection: Romance
You’ve crafted this bored veneer, but you’re always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter.Collection: Romance