Stephanie Perkins Quotes

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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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Life, Happiness, I Hate You

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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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Love, Relationship, Romantic

Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.220, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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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Stephanie Perkins (2011). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.142, Penguin

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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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Fashion, Believe, Life Is Too Short

Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.9, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

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Canvas, Possibility, Unlimited Possibilities

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

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People, Get Over

Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.178, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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

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Mistake, Important, Making Mistakes

Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.98, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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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Stupid, Done, Mona Lisa

Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.188, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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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Real, Mean, Creating

Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.133, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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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Emotion, Twisted, French Kiss

Stephanie Perkins (2010). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.333, Penguin

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I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.

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Perfect, Imperfection, Persons

Stephanie Perkins (2011). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.204, Penguin

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

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Mean, Answers, Ridiculous

Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.62, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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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Encouragement, People, Trying

Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.184, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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.

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Children, Growing Up, Hands

Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.186, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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?

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Wish, Needs, Want

Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.56, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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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Wind, People, Together

Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.159, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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

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Silence, Best Relationship, Action

Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Isla and the Happily Ever After”, p.94, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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.

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Thinking, Perfect, Way

Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.14, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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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Love, Years, Bleeding

Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.215, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.

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Forget, Easy, Umbrella

Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Isla and the Happily Ever After”, p.170, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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

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Beautiful, Easy, Not Interested

Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.47, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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Boys turns girls into such idiots.

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Girl, Boys, Idiot

Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.25, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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

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Moments

Stephanie Perkins (2010). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.253, Penguin

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

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Nervous, My Smile, Natural

Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.49, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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.

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Depression, Long, Let It Go

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