Stephanie Perkins

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 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.

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

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

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?

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.

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?

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

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

Candace Bushnell

Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be

The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.

I like my money right where I can see it…hanging in my closet.

What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it.

Maybe the past is like an anchor holdong us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.

Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.

It’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we’ve been dealt, and accessorize what we’ve got.

I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.

Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.

Norton Juster

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.

Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.

But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.

There are no wrong roads to anywhere.

. . . I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.

Isaac Asimov II

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

Jonathan Swift II

May you live every day of your life.

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

 We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Every dog must have his day.

No wise man ever wished to be younger. 

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians—I will not speak of my own trade—soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell...

Katja Millay

People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. 

Daylight won’t protect you from anything. Bad things happen all the time; they don’t wait until after dinner.

There are so many things that can break you if there's nothing to hold you together.

I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck.

I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk.

We're like mysteries to one another. Maybe if I can solve him and he can solve me, we can explain each other. Maybe that's what I need. Someone to explain me.

Good morning, Sunshine.

What? Sunshine fits you. It's bright and warm and happy. Just. Like. You.”

Nothing is perfect. It's not even good yet. But maybe.

I don't really care what people say about me. I'm fine with lies and rumors. It's the truth I don't want being told

I can be your other hand when you need it.

Leo Tolstoy II 

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

I think... if it is true that 
there are as many minds as there 
are heads, then there are as many 
kinds of love as there are hearts.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Yann Martel

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud...

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity; it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

William Goldman

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

When I was your age, television was called books.

Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

Love is many things none of them logical.

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

I’ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.

There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy.... Well, this one left them all behind.

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.

She loves you," the Prince cried. "She loves you still and you love her, so think of that--think of this too: in all this world, you might have been happy, genuinely happy. Not one couple in a century has that chance, not really, no matter what the storybooks say, but you could have had it, and so, I would think, no one will ever suffer a loss as great as you.

The enemy is always in the mind.

Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told.

Ann Brashares

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.

The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.