Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas tree agnostic." He smiles. "I like it and you're a Yom Kippur atheist."
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"I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas tree agnostic." He smiles. "I like it and you're a Yom Kippur atheist."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"I'd like to point out that we've had zero problem reaching each other's mouths."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"You’ve crafted this bored veneer, but you’re always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"Hot. I’ve been upgraded to hot. No one has ever called me hot. Cute? Yes. Adorable? yes, often and it makes me want to punch them. I didn’t know short girls could even be hot. I thought I’d been permanently relegated to elfin-pixie-child status."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"Crushes are so awful. I wonder if they suck worse for the crush-er or the crush-ee. I consider my three years of watching Josh from afar. Yeah, definitely the crush-er."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"I don't care about anything. But I care about you."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. It's like everyone else has their entire future mapped out except for me."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"Well, bloody noses." I hug his coat tighter. "Those are definitely hot."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"Finally, I laugh. Genuine and normal sounding. And then my date says the best thing that he couldpossibly say: “It’s okay. I haven’t been on one of these [dates] in a while either.”My smile triples in size. Josh grins. “Just give me your hand.”“W–what?”“Your hand,” he repeats. “Give it to me.”I extend my shaking right hand. And – in a moment that is a hundred dreams come true – Joshua Wasserstein laces his fingers through mine. A staggering shock of energy shoots straight into myveins. Straight into my heart.“There,” he says. “I’ve been waiting a long time to do that."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"The way he looked at you? He wasn’t distracted. He was consumed."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"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. I don't know. 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, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here," I whisper."Are you getting your ax"Handcuffs."Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"Confidence, darling." He leans across the table and touches a finger to my cheek. "You could learn something from me, you know."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"I doubted myself, and that made me doubt you. But you weren’t the problem. You were never the problem. I should have trusted you, but I didn’t, because I couldn’t trust myself."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"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, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"It gets worse. Josh tell her that he loves her. She says it back. He touches her. She touches him back. And then they're losing their virginity on the floor of her bedroom beside her pet rabbit, Isis. A rabbit. Josh literally lost his virginity in front of a metaphor for sex."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"We can’t stop smiling at each other. I can’t believe that adults get to do this every day. And I don’t even mean sex, though it’s wonderful, but things like this. Brushing our teeth at the same sink. Do adults realize how lucky they are? Or do they forget that these small moments are actually small miracles? I don’t want to ever forget."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
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