Overdue Quotes

“I held my own hand because no one was there to hold it for me.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Overdue

“I want to marry you," he said.
My heart stopped. "You do?"
"Desperately."
"Oh," I whispered.
"I didn't know how you felt about it either. And I was afraid I would scare you away if I said something too soon, but I would have married you yesterday. I would have married you a month ago. A year ago. Five years ago."
"But you've had all those long-term relationships. And you've never even been engaged."
"Because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life with them.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Overdue

“Because he knew, we both knew, that our friendship had always held the capacity for more. The air hummed thicker between us. It startled us with intermittent and unpredictable sparks. This wasn’t the one-way charge of seeing somebody attractive; the charge was striking in both directions.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Overdue

“No job is perfect. The trick is to find one with enough parts that you love to help you get through the shitty parts.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Overdue

“We were already in. I loved all my friends, but I especially appreciated the ones who required no training wheels, no remedial courses to slide back into the rhythm of conversation.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Overdue

“with him and raise a series of dignified cats. I wanted to kiss him when our hair thinned and our skin sagged and our knees stopped working and we both forgot the word for “blue.” I wanted to die beside him in bed someday”
― Stephanie Perkins, Overdue

“You light up in here,” he said. “You dim in that other space.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Overdue