I have a rule."" Elaborate." The statue is still warm from the previous visitors. "I ask myself if the worst happened—if I did get knocked up-would I be embarrassed to tell my child who his father was? If the answer is anywhere even remotely close to yes, then there's no way." He nods slowly. "That's a good rule.

— Stephanie Perkins

I just can't fathom why anyone would stand on a ledge when there's a respectable amount of walking space right next to it.

— Stephanie Perkins

I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium.

— Stephanie Perkins

I look at you, and I think about you, and ... I don't know. No one has ever confounded me the way you do.

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Stephanie Perkins

Imagine," she said, after registering, "a whole city of gorgeous Italian guys. They can say anything to me, and it'll be sexy." "You'll be so easy," Rashmi said. "Would you like-ah to order-ah the spaghetti? 'Oh, do me, Marco!

— Stephanie Perkins

I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s okay to be a blank canvas. Maybe it’s okay that my future is unknown. And maybe,” I say with another smile, “it’s okay to be inspired by the people who do know their future.

— Stephanie Perkins

I mean. . . I don't know. I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. Furthermore, I don't know. Furthermore, I like reading about adventure, sure, but I also like doing it from the safety of home. But what is home, besides a quilt-covered bed? Where is it?

— Stephanie Perkins

I mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It's so Hogwarts. Only mine doesn't have cute boy wizards or magic candy or flying lessons.

— Stephanie Perkins

I'm just as big a fool as the rest of them.

— Stephanie Perkins