{"author":"Stephanie Perkins","author_id":"Stephanie+Perkins","total_quotes":91,"quotes":[{"text":"It's become impossible to deny he means something to me.","author":"Stephanie Perkins","tags":["love"],"id":6009,"author_id":"Stephanie+Perkins"},{"text":"We straighten , bu our snickering is barely contained as we attempt to focus our attention on a picture of a discarded Coke can. 'This guy's lady love is kind of a slob, don't you think?' he whispers.I cover my mouth with my hands again.'A reaaaaaaaal litterbug.'Stop it,' I hiss. My eyes are watering. 'Ohmygod look at this one! How did he get her toenail clippings?'If you were my girl,' he whispers, 'I'd take creepy pictures of your trash when I knew you weren't looking.'If you were my girl,' I whisper back,' I'd put the creepy pictures in a foreign museum so you wouldn't know that I take creepy pictures.","author":"Stephanie Perkins","tags":["isla-and-the-happily-ever-after","romance","stephanie-perkins"],"id":7169,"author_id":"Stephanie+Perkins"},{"text":"And then I turn another corner, and my chest constricts so tightly, so painfully, that I can no longer breathe.Because there he is.He's engrossed in an oversize book, hunched over and completely absorbed. A breeze ruffles his dark hair, and he bites his nails. . . . Several other people are soaking up the rare sunshine, but as soon as they're registered, they're forgotten. Because of him.I grip the edge of a sidewalk café table to keep from falling. The diners stare in alarm, but I don't care. I'm reeling, and I gasp for air.How can I have been so stupid?How could I have ever for a moment believed I wasn't in love with him?","author":"Stephanie Perkins","tags":["falling-in-love","love"],"id":8114,"author_id":"Stephanie+Perkins"},{"text":"I didn't know it was possible to simultaneously hate and ache for someone.","author":"Stephanie Perkins","tags":["aching","hate","love"],"id":8756,"author_id":"Stephanie+Perkins"},{"text":"Some of us wear our hearts. Some of us carry them.","author":"Stephanie Perkins","tags":["beautiful","eli-and-gracie","leigh-bardugo","live","summer"],"id":9889,"author_id":"Stephanie+Perkins"},{"text":"That’s the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don’t want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It’s mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time.","author":"Stephanie Perkins","tags":["depression","lola-and-the-boy-next-door"],"id":11552,"author_id":"Stephanie+Perkins"},{"text":"And then this — the moment he calls my name — is the real moment everything changes.He is no longer St. Clair, everyone's pal, everyone's f.","author":"Stephanie Perkins","tags":["falling-in-love","love"],"id":21437,"author_id":"Stephanie+Perkins"},{"text":"St. Clair gets a crush on Anna. He's torn between her and Ellie, and he spends so much time running between them that he hardly has time left for Josh. And the more time that Josh spends alone, the more he realizes how alone he actually is. All of his friends will be gone the next year. Josh grows increasingly antagonistic toward school, which makes Rashmi increasingly antagonistic toward him, which makes him increasingly antagonistic toward her. And she's upset because Elie dropped her as a friend, and Meredith is upset because now St. Clair likes two girls who aren't her, and Anna is upset because St. Clair is leading her on, and then St. Clair's mom gets cancer. It's a freaking soap opera.","author":"Stephanie Perkins","tags":["anna-and-the-french-kiss","funny","isla"],"id":25774,"author_id":"Stephanie+Perkins"},{"text":"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 want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It's mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time.","author":"Stephanie Perkins","tags":["depression","young-adult"],"id":26092,"author_id":"Stephanie+Perkins"},{"text":"Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.","author":"Stephanie Perkins","tags":["mistakes"],"id":33380,"author_id":"Stephanie+Perkins"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":91,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}