Blanka Reznikov > Blanka's Quotes

“I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“It was a cruel trick of the universe, thought August, that he only felt human after doing something monstrous.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“Maybe one day the words will pour out like so many others, easy and smooth and on their own. Right now they take pieces of me with them.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Near Witch

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Stay with me. Stay with me. Stay with me.
I would write the words a thousand times if they'd be strong enough to hold you here.”
― Victoria Schwab, Gallant

“When people see tears, they stop listening to your hands or your words or anything else you have to say. And it doesn't matter if the tears are angry or sad, frightened or frustrated. All they see is a girl crying.”
― Victoria Schwab, Gallant

“If I die out there? I’d be honored if you ate my body.” “I would never let a bear get to your body first.”
― Stephanie Perkins, The Woods Are Always Watching

“It had been so long since Makani had felt any amount of genuine, unadulterated happiness that she’d forgotten that sometimes it could hurt as much as sadness. His declaration pierced through the muscle of her heart like a skillfully thrown knife.

It was the kind of pain that made her feel alive.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“They thought puzzle were boring. But I’ve always thought they were satisfying, you know? Each piece having its exact place.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“dickpunch.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“Why aren't the two of you together?'

The directness of her question throws me. 'I don't know. Sometimes I think there are only so many opportunities... to get together with someone. And we've both screwed up so many times - that we've missed our chance.”
― Stephanie Perkins

“Everybody has at least one moment they deeply regret, but that one moment...it doesn't define all of you.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“Como soy una idiota, me quedo junto al teléfono toda la noche esperando que 'pronto' signifique 'pronto'. Pero no es así.”
― Stephanie Perkins

“Home isn't a place. It's a person. And, we're finally home.”
― Stephanie Perkins

“I didn't do anything I didn't want to do.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“His declaration pierced through the muscle of her heart like a skillfully thrown knife.
It was the kind of pain that made her feel alive.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“Makani peered over her grandmother’s shoulder and out the large window that looked across their front lawn. She scanned the yards for the boogeyman, the Babadook, Ted Bundy. The street was empty.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“Let's vow to never become monsters that we are trying to protect ourselves from.”
― Stephanie Perkins

“What's wrong with me? Why do I always fall for the wrong guy?”
― Stephanie Perkins

“It was ridiculous how much gear was required for roughing it.”
― Stephanie Perkins, The Woods Are Always Watching

“Pardon me, but I wonder if you wouldn't mind switching seats. You see, that's my girlfriend there, and she's pregnant. And since she gets a bit ill on airplanes, I thought she might need someone to hold her hair when... well..."
St. Clair holds up the courtesy barf bag and shakes it around. The paper crinkles dramatically. The man sprints off the seat as my face flames. His pregnant girlfriend?”
― Stephanie Perkins

“Tomorrow. Right now, I only want you.”
― Stephanie Perkins

“I've always felt lucky to live someplace where snow is rare, you know? It's the rareness that makes it so special.”
― Stephanie Perkins

“Someday, their story would be a chapter in one of those sleazy, mass-market, true-crime paperbacks that were shelved in the cobwebbed corners of used bookstores—the types of paperbacks that boasted about the number of crime-scene photographs inside.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“Sorry, it’s such a mess.”
He shoves his hands into his pockets.
“I cleared off the bed, though, and the sheets are clean.”
My eyebrows practically hit my hairline.
“To sit on.”
His accusation is made jokingly, but his skin turns melon pink.
“Nice shoes, by the way.”
I’m wearing flats.
“Nice deflection, by the way.”
“Nice to see you, by the way.”
“Nice save, by the way.”
― Stephanie Perkins

“It was the kind of pain that made her feel alive.”
― stephanie perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“I mean I didn’t SLEEP sleep with him. Obviously. But I slept with him.”
― Stephanie Perkins

“Only Darby, who also innately understood the concept of otherness had successfully avoided this pitfall. just as it was rude and invasive to ask him about his genitalia or sexual preference, it was equally rude and invasive to ask her about her ethnicity. It was the sort of information that should be volunteered. Never asked for.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“I like you," he says.
My body is rigid.
"And I don't mean as a friend.”
― Stephanie Perkins