Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
"I'm just as big a fool as the rest of them."
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"I'm just as big a fool as the rest of them."
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
"And we're finally home."
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
"But that's not quite right either. I miss Paris, but it's not home. It's more like... I miss this. This warmth over the telephone. Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place? Bridgette used to be home to me. Maybe St. Clair is my new home. I mull this over as our voices grow tired and we stop talking. We just keep each other company. My breath. His breath. My breath. His breath. I could never tell him, but it's true. This is home. The two of us."
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
"How could I wish for it for so long, only to come back and find it gone. To be here, in my technical house, and discover that home is now someplace different."
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
"Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?"
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
"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, Anna and the French Kiss
"He’s so close, yet so far away.” – Anna"
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
"And then there's the other thing. The thing I'm trying to ignore. The thing I shouldn't want, the thing I can't have. And he's standing in front of me right now. 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?Screw it. Let the fates d"
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
"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, Anna and the French Kiss
"It's so Hogwarts."
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
"You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions."
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
"That guys. Sideburns. You like him"My back squirms. "You've asked me that before."What I meant was," he says, flustered. "Your feelings haven't changed? Since you've been"
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
"Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come."
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
"Har. Bloody. Har."
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
"I'm sorry," he says."What? Why"You're fixing everything I set down." He nods at my hands, which are readjusting the elephant. "It wasn't polite of me to come in and start touching your things."Oh, it's okay," I say quickly, letting go of the figurine. "You can touch anything of mine you want." would be so bad."
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
"The only French word I know is oui, which means “yes,” and only recently did I learn it’s spelled o-u-i and not w-e-e."
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
"Soap"School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP". Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed."
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
"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, Anna and the French Kiss
"French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused."
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
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