There's Someone Inside Your House Quotes

“I guess you never really know what’s going on inside someone else’s head.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“He couldn’t be dead, because he was still so alive in her mind.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“It was sad that people only got along when everybody was unhappy.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“People live through such pain only once; pain comes again, but it finds a tougher surface.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“They didn’t talk much, but their silence was companionable.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“Running away from home didn’t change the fact that a person still had to live with themselves.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“They crossed the railroad tracks and went over the river. The countryside was flat. Stiff vegetation, muddy fields, round bales of hay. Modest farmhouses and monstrous tractors. The view was uniform in every direction, broken only by the long, dinosaurian contraptions that Makani had learned were center-pivot irrigation systems.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“Osborne smelled like diesel, tasted like despair, and was surrounded by an ocean of corn. Stupid corn. So much corn.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“Running away from home didn’t change the fact that a person still had to live with themselves. Makani had learned this, though perhaps her mother never had. Change came from within, over a long period of time, and with a lot of help from people who loved you.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“Well, I know that our regrets change us, and that's how we grow--for either better or worse. And it seems to me, you're growing better.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“I don't know. I'd like to think I'm a better person now, but for the rest of my life, I'll always have this question in my mind. I'll always have doubt. Something could trigger me, and I might snap or freak out again.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“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

“Makani genuinely hoped that others . . . found peace and strength through prayer. But she wasn't religious herself, and it made her uncomfortable whenever it was forced upon her.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“She loved her family, but she’d love them more with distance.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

“Alanna’s Moonlight had been to the Lioness herself.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

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

“Ollie hadn’t been kidding. He really did like jigsaw puzzles. A countryside harvest festival was spread across the coffee table, and its repeating autumnal patterns held him and Grandma Young in a matching trance. Perched on their seat edges, they bonded over etiquette and strategy: start with the border. Then any sections that contain printed words. If someone is searching for one specific piece, but the other person finds it, it must be handed over, because it means more to the first person. And always save the sky—the hardest part of any puzzle—for last.”
― Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House