Top 400 Adam Silvera Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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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252. “She hasn’t looked happy in so long, but she looks especially not happy with me now.”

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

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254. “I hug him because that says everything when I actually don’t have anything to say.”

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255. “You don’t get to keep ignoring the past because you don’t like it.”

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256. “I don’t know how much life we have left but I don’t want to miss it.”

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257. “This is one of those times where you swear you have to be sleeping and living a nightmare because it’s so impossible that your life can only be a string of bad things until you’re completely abandoned. “You.”

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258. “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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259. “But you do get that I loved him, too, right? And he loved me, even though I sometimes had trouble believing it because of you. I don’t know why it matters so much to me, but I wish you wouldn’t write off what he and I had, especially since every couple has to start somewhere. You just beat me to the punch.” I.”

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260. “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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261. “There’s a flicker of flame in her hollow chest, like hope heating within, like the fires of a phoenix that will be reborn.”

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262. “Life shouldn’t be about to end before someone begins living.”

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263. “You move on, you have to – but you don’t write someone out.”

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264. “She never understood how the way she loves could drag such hatred out of others, and she refused to stick around to find the love everyone hated her for.”

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265. “It’s impossible to explain the emotions cycling through me to someone who never forgot her life, later remembered it, and now has all these memories bleeding into each other. Every day feels more like chaos, like I’m never going to get my life straight – no pun intended – like starting over again is better than game over.”

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266. “And here’s one of my problems: if I don’t choose Genevieve, I’ll find myself on the receiving end of a boot to the face.”

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267. “If nothing else, having a Last Friend should make my friends feel a little better about me running wild around the city. It makes me feel a little better, at least.”

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268. “Grieving would probably feel a little less lonely if I could turn to someone my own age, maybe a little older and wiser and scarred from battles I’m fighting for the first time. Maybe I wouldn’t have done the things I’ve done.”

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269. “People reveal different parts of themselves to different people.”

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270. “But this universe is the only one that matters, and I have one last question for you: I didn’t get our history wrong, did I?”

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271. “Screw Captain America, screw Black Widow, and screw Tony Stark and all his money. I want to be Team Griffin,” Wade says. “When are we giving that a shot?” That.”

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

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

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

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

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

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278. “You’ve never seen this side of him, Theo, which makes sense because people reveal different parts of themselves to different people. I don’t know why I could never see that before. How I was with you isn’t how I was with Wade, and how Jackson was with me isn’t how he was with you. Wade.”

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

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280. “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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281. “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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282. “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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283. “I want to hug him, but he doesn’t want to be touched right now. Like any affection is going to become a target sign on our backs. Like we’ll get punished because our hearts are different.”

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284. “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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285. “I’m so happy you were my first, Theo, and you were worth all the heartache.”

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286. “I’m scared I’m going to die and never have been in love.”

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

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288. “I say his name a lot, even though I’m obviously talking to him, because it’s just cool, seriously – Mateo.”

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

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290. “I guess I could call this energy freedom. No one will be around to judge me tomorrow. No one will send messages to his friends about the lame kid who had no rhythm. And in this moment, how stupid it is to care hits me like a punch to the face.”

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

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

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

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294. “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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295. “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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296. “Something about Ben Alejo’s face makes my brain light up.”

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297. “He can’t even imagine Rufus spending his End Day with a stranger.”

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298. “Everyone plays a purpose, even fathers who lie to you or leave you behind. Time takes care of all that pain so if someone derails you, it’ll be okay eventually.”

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299. “I don’t know if I can stand hearing about your happiness with him, but maybe it’ll help me understand you better. Maybe it’ll help me add pieces to the puzzle of your life. Time for a test run. “What’s.”

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300. “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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