Top 400 Adam Silvera Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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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252. “I don’t know how much life we have left but I don’t want to miss it.”

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253. “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 not to feel guilt if you forget the days or weeks or months have gone by without thinking about me.”

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254. “The song ends, I catch my breath, and I breathe in everyone’s roaring applause, I breathe in their love, and it energizes me to grab Rufus’s hand while he’s bowing. I drag him offstage, and once we’re behind the curtain, I look him in the eyes and he smiles like he knows what’s about to go down. And he’s not wrong.”

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255. “I have to push ahead with the people who don’t take the easy way out, who love me enough to stay alive even whe life sucks.”

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256. “You kept me alive when we were apart. I promise I’ll always do the same for you. Jackson’s.”

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257. “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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258. “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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259. “I don’t wanna leave you behind. We’re supposed to be living, period. We know how this ends for both of us, but I wasted it. This isn’t some dream and we wont wake up from this.”

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260. “Stop defending him, Griffin. And stop putting him on some throne. Theo’s messing up is his fault, not yours.” He.”

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261. “We think we’re so damn indestructible and infinite because we can think and take care of ourselves, unlike pay phones or books, but I bet the dinosaurs thought they’d rule forever too.”

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262. “I want to be so happy that bad memories aren’t following me around like unwanted shadows.”

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

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264. “People need people. That’s that.”

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265. “I haven’t loved a possibility like this in so long. I’ve been loyal to my love for him, and if I can hold on for a little bit longer, we might get our endgame after all. Theo is willing to throw away everything he has with his convenient boyfriend, who was “there.” “Okay.”

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266. “It’s not even the goodbyes, man, it’s not getting to thank everyone for all they did for me.”

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267. “Rich people are why we can’t have nice things.”

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268. “The thing is, love doesn’t make sense anymore, and I feel lied to. Love isn’t this ultimate power that can make me feel unbeatable and all conquering.”

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269. “But affection from millions and intimacy from that one special person are completely different beasts.”

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270. “You know damn well I love you too.” Man, it actually hurts how much I mean this.”

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271. “Mommy,” Penny says. This one word says everything to Lidia – fall apart, but piece herself back together. If not for herself, for her daughter.”

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272. “Something snaps in my head and I’m fighting back tears. I slipped too. Whatever, I have a girlfriend too. I don’t need him.”

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273. “I’m no longer waking up on the wrong side of my life.”

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274. “I write short stories because I am one.”

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275. “Puzzles are sort of like life because you can mess up and rebuild later, and you’re likely smarter the next time around.”

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276. “I don’t know what you would’ve thought of me with Wade, but it doesn’t matter now. I was in love and love died and the pain you’ve left isn’t pain I can see myself having the strength to face again. But.”

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277. “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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278. “This is our safe space, our little island.”

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

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281. “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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282. “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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283. “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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284. “People reveal different parts of themselves to different people.”

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

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286. “I just want you to remember things the way I do.”

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

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288. “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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289. “You’re still alive for Grandma.”

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290. “That man is a goddamn bunion on the foot of my life.”

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291. “It’s time I use my words for good and stop twisting them just because I regret the truth.”

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

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293. “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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294. “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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295. “We’ll stretch this day out as long as possible, like we’re the summer solstice.”

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296. “I’m just going to live in the moment. That’s the only way to see where we end up.”

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297. “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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298. “If Romeo and Juliet didn’t think the other could offer ultimate happiness, the both of them would’ve survived.”

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299. “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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300. “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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