Top 400 Adam Silvera Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Memories: some can be sucker punches, others carry you forward: some stay with you forever, others you forget on your own.”

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152. “If you really hold someone in your heart, you die too.”

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153. “I want to give us a shot, I swear. But I can’t rush this or we’ll get it wrong. You have to understand though that I’m still carrying Theo around with me, and I’m sure you are too. But it’s different for me. I know you’re not Theo, and I don’t want you to be.” I promise going forward I will never demote the love I have for anyone. I’m growing to hate the word love because it always sounds lame, but love shouldn’t only count when there’s a victory. Love was never the liar; I was. “Do.”

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154. “En omdat ik het vertikt heb om te leven alsof ik onkwetsbaar was op al die dagen dat ik geen oproep kreeg, omdat ik al die gisterens vergooid heb en nu geen morgens meer heb.”

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155. “While we can’t always engineer our own happy endings, we can learn how to be more happy than not with the cards we’ve been dealt.”

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156. “No spoilers!” “It’s history!” “History that I don’t know.”

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157. “Tan solo hacemos algo cuando el tiempo corre en nuestra contra.”

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158. “It’s just one more thing I have to pretend I’m okay with.”

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159. “She says everything in this hug – every thank-you, every I-love-you, every apology. I squeeze her back to thank her, to make her feel my love, to apologize, and everything else that falls deep inside and skirts outside these realms.”

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160. “That love is a superpower we all have, but it’s not always a superpower we are able to control.”

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161. “This is still an ugly world. But at least it’s one where your girlfriend loves you back.”

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162. “Every new minute we’re alive is a miracle.”

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163. “In that moment, I wish my existence were as simple as being set on fire and exploding in the sky.”

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164. “Your final destination may be closer than you think.”

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165. “Death is inevitable for everyone and it’s absolute for me today.”

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166. “Don’t get it twisted, on most days I’d prefer cold, hard cash so I can do some damage in a bookstore or buy a new laptop that doesn’t die whenever it’s separated from its charger for more than a minute.”

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167. “I’ll never understand how time can make a moment feel as close as yesterday and as far as years.”

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168. “We all make mistakes... but it’s also a step in the right direction. If nothing else it’s a step away from the wrong one.”

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169. “We were something, but history isn’t enough to keep something alive forever.”

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170. “I can’t know who I want to be when I’m still struggling with who I am.”

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171. “I grab Mateo’s hand and nod. “It’ll be game over, but we won first.”

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172. “But when someone is grieving, a genuine smile is a small victory in the big battle.”

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173. “It’s all going away, everyone and everything is dying. Humans suck, man. We think we’re so damn indestructible and infinite because we can take care of ourselves, unlike pay phones or books, but I bet the dinosaurs thought they’d rule forever too.”

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174. “I call Theo and it goes to voice mail. “Hey, Theo, it’s Griff. I sort of need to talk to you about something big. It’s not about us, I swear. That’s a little bit of a lie, it involves us a little, but not what you think. Anyway. Call me back.”

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175. “I only care about the people who wanna be in my life. Like Rufus. Remember how he was nervous about coming out to us because he didn’t wanna stop sharing a room with us since we had so much fun? That’s someone who wants to be my life. And I wanna be there for his. However much of it is left.”

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176. “Here’s the truth no one ever wants to admit when death is on the horizon, or when you’re deep in that grief – as long as you keep existing, you’ll keep breathing, and if you’re breathing, one day you’ll start living again.”

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177. “There’s a million reasons why someone won’t come out. What might seem like no big deal to one person is the whole universe to another.”

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178. “Maybe a bookshelf will topple over and that’s how I go out – painful, but there are worse ways to die.”

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179. “I don’t want to be me. I don’t want to second-guess if my friends are going to be okay with me being me, and more importantly, I don’t want to see what happens if they’re not.”

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180. “Lidia will never know how Mateo is spending his End Day, but she hopes her best friend finds whatever he’s looking for.”

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181. “I was wrong to think I no longer have a life to run for. I do. It’s just not my own.”

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182. “Those who can’t be trusted to call people before they die are better off dealing with them when they’re dead.”

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183. “She pulls away – and then I see why: she’s holding out her palm as a landing place for a firefly. It’s easy to forget it’s there when it’s not glowing, until all of a sudden it comes back and surprises you; it reminds you of grief.”

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184. “It’s a terrible loss whenever someone assumes they have more time than they do.”

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185. “No one should feel bad for trying to be good.”

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186. “But what I’ve gotten out of him in one day is more than I feel like I ever deserved. I don’t know if that makes sense.”

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187. “My afterlife is like a home theater where you can re-watch your entire life from start to finish.”

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188. “Recuerdas aquella vez cuando era un buen novio y te regalaba momentos bonitos como este.”

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189. “I collapse back onto the floor, thinking about how it’s do or die now. Not even that. Do, and then die.”

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190. “For every minute I buy him, that’s more time getting to know him. The longer I know him, the harder everything will hurt.”

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191. “We were all lost and okay with not being found for a while.”

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192. “We didn’t make sense anymore. And there’s no point lying, like you said, even on your last day.”

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193. “It’s been really hard watching you so hurt,” Wade says. “I wanted to make you feel better, and it was risky, so I made a move. I didn’t expect it to get so far.” “Me.”

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194. “Love, the hugest liar in this universe.”

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195. “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.”

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196. “I may not be throwing fire, but I’m just as much a hero as anyone else.”

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197. “We can listen to friends and strangers until the sun goes down, but we can never know someone’s full story without going through the world in their bodies.”

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198. “Then there’s the kind of zombie I’ve become now: the one who has lost everything – his brain, his heart, his light, his direction. He wanders the world, bumping into this, tripping over that, but keeps going and going. That is life after death.”

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199. “You’re not delusional,” Theo says. “And you’re not crazy.”

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200. “I think we’re already dead, dude. Not everyone, just Deckers. The whole Death-Cast thing seems too fantasy to be true. Knowing when our last day is going down so we can live it right? Straight-up fantasy. The first afterlife kicks off when Death-Cast tells us to live out our day knowing it’s our last; that way we’ll take full advantage of it, thinking we’re still alive. Then we enter the next and final afterlife without any regrets.”

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