Top 400 Adam Silvera Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “You kept me alive when we were apart. I promise I’ll always do the same for you. Jackson’s.”

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202. “You can do your own thing, but we’re done for whether we hang or not,” Rufus says. “No point fearing it.”

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

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204. “Secrets can turn people into liars.”

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205. “I might not make it to the future but I can live it now.”

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206. “Even if I’m gay?” I say the word out loud, about myself, because even though I never chose this, I can choose to accept it before it’s too late.”

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207. “Much like Rufus can’t expect me to be instantly brave, I can’t expect him to be instantly generous.”

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208. “But that’s a problem for a long, long, long time from now. Until then, Rufus is going to be a kid. He’s going to have fun with his bike. He’s going to be a good son and brother and friend. He’s going to live.”

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209. “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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210. “As long as it’s not chicken tenders it’ll be something new for me.”

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211. “I believe him, in this moment, but it’s what can happen in the future that chokes me a little. I’m not going to say anything, though. Being paranoid can’t possibly take me anywhere good. I.”

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212. “This is our safe space, our little island.”

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213. “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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214. “But maybe people should be kind without reason.”

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215. “It’s so strange how we tell someone who’s dying to hold on, as if they have a choice.”

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216. “His heart is pounding against my wrist. His heart, like mine, desperately doesn’t want to stop beating.”

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

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

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

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

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222. “If the blind can find joy in music, and the deaf can discover it with colours, 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.”

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223. “If I’m going to have any chance of getting through today, tomorrow, and all the days that follow, I think I need to go back to the start, where we were two boys bonding over jigsaw puzzles and falling in love.”

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224. “I’m lucky to have parents who know when to go to war with me and when to leave me alone in the battlefield.”

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225. “When we had our eventual reunion, you would be able to see how my love for you trumped my own happiness.”

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

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

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228. “Tip: your girlfriends won’t suspect you’re sleeping with your guy friend if you’re hitting them.”

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229. “There’s newness that comes with the rising sun, and even though there’s a chance I won’t reach daytime or see sun rays filtering through the trees in the park, I should look at today as one long morning. I have to wake up, I have to start my day.”

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230. “Alternate universe idea: Theo and I are living together in a huge house overflowing with hats because I bought him a new one every day to get him to stay.”

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

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232. “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.”

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233. “Did finding Each other kill us?”

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234. “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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235. “The how doesn’t matter as much as what I do before it goes down, but not knowing is still freaking shaking me; you only die once, after all.”

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236. “Pero es posible que todo esto estuviera escrito en las estrellas, que fuera nuestro destino o algo parecido: dos chicos se encuentran. Se enamoran. Y mueren.”

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237. “I don’t say anything. I’m not sure what to say. I just breathe because I have fewer than twenty-eight thousand breaths left in me – the average number of breaths a nondying person takes per day – and I might as well use them up while I can.”

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

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240. “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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241. “You’re the only person not expecting anything from me either.”

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242. “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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243. “If anything, it only further proves my point: Mateo doesn’t deserve to die.”

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244. “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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245. “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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246. “It’s weirdly possessive and obsessive to like someone; you want to learn all of his stories before anyone else and sometimes you want to be the only one who knows at all.”

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247. “Life felt like it was going to be too long. I wanted out.”

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248. “But the pain can only help you find happiness if you can remember it.”

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

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250. “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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