Top 400 Adam Silvera Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “This is our safe space, our little island.”

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202. “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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203. “You two are straight-up shadows. Because you’re always following me. Loyal to the end.”

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204. “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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205. “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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206. “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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207. “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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208. “People reveal different parts of themselves to different people.”

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209. “We’re not dying because of love.”

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210. “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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211. “Leteo will make me forget my relationship with Collin. My insides can stop burning me alive with how much I miss him. I won’t ever get jumped on the train again for liking another guy. My friends will stop being suspicious of what I’m doing when I’m not hanging with them. We’re going to kill that part of me that’s ruined everything. I’m going to be straight, just like how my father would’ve wanted.”

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212. “You’re still alive for Grandma.”

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213. “I realize I’m crying a little, too. I remember. Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you through the messier tunnels of growing up. But pain can only help you find happiness if you remember it.”

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214. “Damn, grief is complicated enough without wondering how someone else is handling their own shade of it.”

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215. “I sometimes forget their voices.” I say. It’s only been four months but that’s fact. “They blend with the voices of people around me, but I could recognize their screams anywhere.”

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

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217. “Some dudes make their mind a prison. I like living outside of bars. If we’re different, that’s fine with me.”

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218. “I place my palm on the headstone’s face, and it’s the closest I’ll come to holding her hand.”

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219. “I hope you’re serious about opening yourself up to new experiences, though. Doesn’t have to be something like the party car.”

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

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221. “I am forcing myself out of this apartment. It has been both my sanctuary and my prison.”

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222. “I kiss him and I call him beautiful and I tell him I love him and we go on past that finish line. We laugh and catch our breaths and we peel stickers off each other. No do-over needed.”

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223. “I want you to make more discoveries in your city, and I want you to be brave enough to make the first move again the next time someone catches your eye. And someone will catch your eye again. 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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224. “We’ll stretch this day out as long as possible, like we’re the summer solstice.”

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

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

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

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230. “Something about Ben Alejo’s face makes my brain light up.”

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231. “Have you ever dated anyone?” Rufus asks.”

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

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233. “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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234. “But maybe this isn’t how life works. Maybe it’s all about people coming into your life for a little while and you take what they give you and use it on your next friendship or relationship. And if you’re lucky, maybe some people pop back in after you thought they were gone for good.”

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235. “I scoop the soil over the bird, smoothing it flat before standing. “I hope someone is this kind to us when it’s over.”

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236. “I stop. “I’ve been lied to before too.” I’ve also made the mistake of ignoring others asking for help, and it’s not fair. “I’m not saying we should give him our life savings, just a few bucks.”

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237. “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.”

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238. “Here we are, two boys sitting in a cemetery as it begins drizzling, trading stories in my half-dug grave, as if we’re not dying today.”

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239. “Before. Before is all I will have left, and Before destroyed me before.”

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240. “I’ll be gone before I can adjust to my mortality.”

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241. “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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242. “Here we are, two boys sitting in a cemetery as it begins drizzling, trading stories in my half-dug grave, as if we’re not dying today. These moments of forgetting and relief are enough to push me through the rest of my day.”

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243. “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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244. “I can’t help it. If I’m going to feel something, I want to feel it.”

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

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246. “I always thought we would be the endgame, even when I knew I couldn’t afford to be that person.”

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247. “Death is inevitable for everyone.”

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248. “It has been both my sanctuary and my prison and for once I need to go breathe in the outside air instead of tearing through it to get from point A to point B.”

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249. “Rufus squeezes my hand and lets go.”

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250. “How do you sleep at night knowing everyone you spoke to that day is dead?”

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