Top 400 Adam Silvera Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

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52. “You may be born into a family but you walk into friendships.”

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53. “This loaded question is the reason I didn’t want anyone to know I was dying. There are questions I can’t answer. I cannot tell you how you will survive without me. I cannot tell you how to mourn me. I cannot convince you to not feel guilty if you forget the anniversary of my death, or if you realize days or weeks or months have gone by without thinking about me. I just want you to live.”

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54. “Find your people and treat eat each day like a lifetime.”

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55. “We can’t ever be together,” he finished. “But I always want to know you, even if we’re in the same room and you’re just saying hi to me over and over again, I’ll be perfectly happy. I’ll always want to be sitting across from you.”

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56. “Entire lives aren’t lessons, but there are lessons in lives. You may be born into a family, but you walk into friendships. Some you’ll discover you should put behind you. Others are worth every risk.”

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57. “History is nothing. It can be recycled or thrown away completely. It isn’t this sacred treasure chest I mistook it to be. We were something, but history isn’t enough to keep something alive forever. You’re not the best friend and love of my life I’ve spent this past month mourning, and missing long before that. I don’t want to talk to you anymore.”

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58. “You didn’t just keep me alive, you made me live.”

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

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60. “Unlikely but not impossible are the best odds for any dreamer.”

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

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62. “I start walking toward Rufus and his bike, walking toward death with every minute we lose, walking against a world that’s against us.”

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63. “I kiss the guy who brought me to life on the day we’re going to die.”

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64. “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. – Steve Jobs.”

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65. “Don’t play with me.” He looks around, like I’m setting him up. Accepting help shouldn’t make someone suspicious.”

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66. “This is our safe place, our little island. We aren’t moving from here. We can’t die if we don’t move. You got me?”

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67. “Please don’t deny yourself that out of fear of losing someone again, or guilt because you’re living on and I can’t.”

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68. “Death-Cast will make sure I’m never denied a goodbye ever again.”

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69. “But no matter what choices we make – solo or together – our finish line remains the same No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.”

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70. “I feel lighter, like my shadow just quit his day job, walked off, and threw up a peace sign.”

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71. “Twelve hours ago I received the phone call telling me I’m going to die today, and I’m more alive now than I was then.”

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72. “The hourglass is almost out of sand. It’s getting creepy. I’m picturing Death stalking me, hiding behind cars and bushes, ready to swing his damn scythe.”

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73. “Having the chance to say goodbye before you die is an incredible opportunity, but isn’t that time better spent actually living?”

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74. “It’s the opposite.” My throat tightens. “You’re screwed because I’m never going to stop loving you. I’m counting on us getting back together when our lives fit better. You’re endgame for me. But you have to promise me you’re not going to be stupid and walk into traffic. Don’t die at all. Okay?” “Fine.”

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75. “That love is a superpower we all have, but it’s not always a superpower I’d be able to control. Especially as I get older. Sometimes it’ll go crazy and I shouldn’t be scared if my power hits someone I’m not expecting it to.”

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76. “No matter when it happens, we all have our endings. No one goes on, but what we leave behind keeps us alive for someone else.”

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77. “We never act. Only react once we realize the clock is ticking.”

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78. “People are complicated puzzles, always trying to piece together a complete picture, but sometimes we get it wrong and sometimes we’re left unfinished. Sometimes that’s for the best. Some pieces can’t be forced into a puzzle, or at least they shouldn’t be, because they won’t make sense.”

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79. “The strongest power above all is a living heart. Humanity is what makes heroes, not powers. The strongest power is humanity.”

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80. “I talk to the boy in the body bag about all the things we said we’d do together, but he can’t hear me.”

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81. “I think we made his day by not pretending he’s invisible. Thanks for seeing him with me.”

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82. “How do I sum up my life in eight words?”

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83. “It’s okay how some stories leave off without an ending. Life doesn’t always deliver the one you would expect.”

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84. “I’d give in to the grief but make sure I wasn’t loud enough to draw attention from those who think words will make me feel better.”

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85. “Memories: some can be sucker punching, others carry you forward; some stay with you forever, others you forget on your own. You can’t really know which ones you’ll survive if you don’t stay on the battlefield, bad times shooting at you like bullets. But if you’re lucky, you’ll have plenty of good times to shield you.”

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86. “Life isn’t meant to be lived alone. Neither are End Days.”

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87. “I want to climb every last mountain, row down every last river, explore every last cave, cross every last bridge, run across every last beach, visit every last town, city, country. Everywhere. I should’ve done more than watch documentaries and video blogs about these places.”

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88. “I’m too scared to even breathe because I might breathe too gay.”

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89. “History remains with the people who will appreciate it most.”

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90. “Monsters don’t come to your home to help you live; they trap you in your bed and eat you alive.”

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91. “What I’ve now learned is, going forward, I have to be careful whom I trust with my heart. I have to be suspicious that someone will use the love I give and carry it over to someone else.”

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92. “I have all this history with you, Theo, but he has pieces of you puzzle that would destroy me if I ever had to put them together, and yet, I still want them.”

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93. “I’m sharp, I’m poison, I’m suffocation, and I’m fire.”

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94. “The memories are still rattling around my head, twisting into me like a knife. I don’t want to wait around to see what comes next for me I’m this tragic story I’m living. I open up one of my father’s unused razors and cut into my wrist like he did, slit in a curve until it smiles so everyone will know I died for happiness.”

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95. “The number one person I’ll miss the most is Future Mateo, who maybe loosened up and lived.”

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96. “I’m not history, Orion. I’m here.”

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97. “What you don’t understand, Theo, is silence is sometimes better than someone speaking before they’re ready. That is how lies slip out.”

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98. “But as I stand here in the ocean that stole you away from us, I wonder if any molecule here witnessed your death, if any water splashing against my legs filled your throat as you struggled to breathe. I.”

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99. “And I’ll maybe even fall in love again, and I’ll make sure I say it before it’s too late.”

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100. “I only care about the people who wanna be in my life.”

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