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Stephanie Perkins

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For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.

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I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

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I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

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I look at you, and I think about you, and ... I don't know. No one has ever confounded me the way you do.

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Yes, St. Claire. I like you. But I can't say it aloud, because he's my friend. And friends don't let other friends make drunken declarations and expect them to act upon them the next day

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It's become impossible to deny he means something to me.

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Phones are distracting. The internet is distracting.The way he looked at you? He wasn't distracted. He was consumed.

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The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

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09Undated

Life isn’t about what you get, it’s about what you DO with what you get.

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French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.

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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.

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Soap?""School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP".Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed.

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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.

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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.

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St. Clair clears his throat. 'My fiancée and I are headed out for a celebratory dessert. I'd ask you all to join us, but I don't want you there.

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What...what about when I'm married?”“We'll buy a cot. Your husband can sleep on that when he visits.

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Har. Bloody. Har.

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Cricket Bell.” I smiled into my phone. “How did you get so wise?

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If I weren't standing next to your boyfriend, I'd be tempted to ask you out myself."She blushes, and St. Clair bounds inside the box office and wrestles her into a hug. "Miiiiiiiiine!" he says."Cut it out." Anna pushes him off, laughing. "You'll get fired. And then I'll have to support your sorry arse for the rest of our lives.

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Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come.

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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.

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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

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You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.

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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.

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