Top 400 Adam Silvera Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. – John A. Shedd.”

— Adam Silvera

2. “I’ve become this happiness scavenger who picks away at the ugliness of the world, because if there’s happiness tucked away in my tragedies, I’ll find it no matter what. If the blind can find joy in music, and the deaf can discover it with colors, I will do my best to always find the sun in the darkness because my life isn’t one sad ending – it’s a series of endless happy beginnings.”

— Adam Silvera

3. “Have to admit it, I feel a little vindicated in how I’ve lived my life because people can be the worst.”

— Adam Silvera

4. “There has to be more to life than imagining a future for yourself.”

— Adam Silvera

5. “It’s one thing to be powerless and another to be useless.”

— Adam Silvera

6. “Dad taught me it’s okay to give in to your emotions, but you should fight your way out of the bad ones, too.”

— Adam Silvera

7. “I ignite the wick, and the firework takes flight. In that moment, I wish my existence were as simple as being set on fire and exploding in the sky.”

— Adam Silvera

8. “And then I crossed the street, with no arm to hold me back.”

— Adam Silvera

9. “It’s mad twisted, but surviving showed me it’s better to be alive wishing I was dead than dying wishing I could live forever.”

— Adam Silvera

10. “He once told me that stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen.”

— Adam Silvera

11. “Because I refused to live invincibly on all those days, I didn’t get an alert, I wasted all those yesterdays and am completely out of tomorrows.”

— Adam Silvera

12. “I’ve spent years living safely to secure a longer life, and look where that’s gotten me. I’m at the finish line but I never ran the race.”

— Adam Silvera

13. “You don’t need matching DNA for someone to be your brother. And you definitely don’t need the same blood to lose a part of yourself when someone dies.”

— Adam Silvera

14. “I’m sorry, but please don’t be mad at me for reliving all of it. History is all you left me.”

— Adam Silvera

15. “I always wanted to stumble into someone like you.”

— Adam Silvera

16. “Life doesn’t care how young you are. It forces you to grow up anyway.”

— Adam Silvera

17. “Love is a superpower, It’s one we all have, but it’s not a superpower you’ll always be able to control. It’ll get harder when you get older too. Don’t be scared if you find yourself loving someone you’re not expecting to. If it’s right, it’s right.”

— Adam Silvera

18. “There has to be more to life than just imagining a future for yourself. I can’t just wish for the future; I have to take risks to create it.”

— Adam Silvera

19. “I would’ve loved you if we had more time.”

— Adam Silvera

20. “He’s right. I am doing this to myself. I’m holding myself back. I’ve spent years living safely to secure a longer life, and look where that’s gotten me. I’m at the finish line, but I never ran the race.”

— Adam Silvera

21. “I understand that the person who gets the Death-Cast call isn’t the only one dying. If you really hold someone in your heart, you die too.”

— Adam Silvera

22. “What you want to do for me is so beyond beautiful that I’m already indebted to you, even if nothing happens. But I’m not going to live the life you want for me if it means you not living yours out while you can.”

— Adam Silvera

23. “No one will be around to judge me tomorrow. No one will send messages to friends about the lame kid who had no rhythm. And in this moment, how stupid it was to care hits me like a punch to the face. I wasted time and missed fun because I cared about the wrong things.”

— Adam Silvera

24. “I guess what I’ll miss most are the wasted opportunities to live my life and the lost potential to make great friends with everyone I sat next to for four years. I’ll miss how we never got to bond over sleepovers where everyone stayed up and played Xbox Infinity and board games all night, all because I was too scared.”

— Adam Silvera

25. “El hombre no ha de temer la muerte. Lo que ha de temer es nunca comenzar a vivir.”

— Adam Silvera

26. “Maybe if we keep letting things crash and burn, everything else is bound to fall back in place.” Or maybe the fire will grow.”

— Adam Silvera

27. “I’m blown away by how happy you make me. Thank you for being there for me when I’m stupid enough to think I’d rather be alone.”

— Adam Silvera

28. “Maybe it’s better to have gotten it right and been happy for one day instead of living a lifetime of wrongs.”

— Adam Silvera

29. “It’s mad twisted, but surviving showed me it’s better to be alive wishing I was dead than dying wishing I could live forever. If I can lose it all and change my attitude, you need to do the same before it’s too late, dude. You gotta go for it.”

— Adam Silvera

30. “Entire lives aren’t lessons, but there are lessons in lives.”

— Adam Silvera

31. “I wasted all those yesterdays and am completely out of tomorrows.”

— Adam Silvera

32. “So yeah, maybe the title ruined the reading experience for some people. But I actually have a bigger spoiler for everyone: We all die at the end. Every single one of us. But once again, how we die, or the fact that we die isn’t the point at all. I can’t spoil the answer for this next question, but I hope it’s one we keep in our minds daily: how did we live?”

— Adam Silvera

33. “I promise to be the Mario to your Luigi, except I won’t hog the spotlight.”

— Adam Silvera

34. “He doesn’t smile for the camera, he’s legit just smiling at me.”

— Adam Silvera

35. “I kiss my Last Friend, because the world can’t be against us, if it brought us together.”

— Adam Silvera

36. “I’m at the finish line, but I never ran the race.”

— Adam Silvera

37. “My Last Message would be to find your people. And to treat each day like a lifetime.”

— Adam Silvera

38. “Leaving means living before you die.”

— Adam Silvera

39. “I read our love wrong, but that doesn’t mean I don’t love you. You were there for me when I needed to act out and be angry, and you made me happy when I was tired of hating everything. Nobodies can’t make someone feel all of that.”

— Adam Silvera

40. “A new memory to laugh over is just as good as reflecting on an old one, I think.”

— Adam Silvera

41. “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. – Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor.”

— Adam Silvera

42. “I want us to have history, something longer than the small window of time we’re actually sharing...”

— Adam Silvera

43. “This apartment isn’t home for either of us, but we’re home for each other, and that’s what makes every small wall fall away so I only focus on him.”

— Adam Silvera

44. “People have their time stamps on how long you should know someone before earning the right to say it, but I wouldn’t lie to you no matter how little time we have. People waste time and wait for the right moment and we don’t have that luxury. If we.”

— Adam Silvera

45. “But no matter what choices we make – solo or together – our finish line remains the same. It doesn’t matter how many times we look both ways. It doesn’t matter if we don’t go skydiving to play it safe, even though it means we’ll never get to fly like my favorite superheroes do. It doesn’t matter if we keep our heads low when passing a gang in a bad neighborhood. No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.”

— Adam Silvera

46. “It’s heartbreaking how much it costs to be alive when you’re always dying.”

— Adam Silvera

47. “Happiness shouldn’t be this hard.”

— Adam Silvera

48. “Too bad life doesn’t allow us to turn its gears, like a clock, when we need more time.”

— Adam Silvera

49. “I’m growing to hate the word love because it always sounds lame, but love shouldn’t only count when there’s a victory.”

— Adam Silvera

50. “I wasted time and missed fun because I cared about the wrong things.”

— Adam Silvera