434 Quotes by Stephanie Perkins

Marigold searched between the trees – free organic hot apple cider clutched between her hands, she was not immune to its lure – and strained her ears over the sounds of laughing children and roaring chain saws. Under any other context, this combination would be alarming. Here, it was positively merry. Or it would’ve been, had her stomach not already been churning with horror-movie-like dread.

You should show encouragement whenever you can. People try harder when they know that someone cares about them.

It’s maddening how someone so easy to read can be so impossible to understand.

For a certain type of person, high school will always be brutal,′ the head says. ‘The best advice that I can give you is to figure out what comes next, and work towards that.

And I hold my head high toward my big entrance, hand in hand with the boy who gave me the moon and the stars.

He couldn’t be dead, because he was still so alive in her mind.

I’m empty. I’m drained. And I can’t move. Not that I’d want to. 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 pick a fight. I am cruel. I annihilate him.

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.