Quotes from Stephanie Perkins

Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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?

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

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.

He's exasperated. "I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

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

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

I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.