Top 400 Adam Silvera Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “I didn’t grow up with powers, but I’ve been a brother for eighteen years. No fire burns brighter than that.”

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352. “But I need him as badly as I should be pushing him away. It’s too weird a mix of ugly and hopeful.”

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353. “But great because we’re not falling outside of ourselves just to make the other person happier. I’m right for him and he’s right for me and that feels beyond right- the universe knew it was love before we did.”

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354. “It hurts to admit it, but there were things in those letters that feel like Mom was taking a shot at me. Why did she write down that I was obsessed with singing songs from girl pop stars? Or how when she took Eric and me shopping for toys at CVS, I didn’t let him bully me into buying a blue Power Ranger because I wanted to play with a Jean Grey action figure? I feel like it was her coded way of saying, “This is when I knew about you.”

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355. “My point is, you get me and I get you,” I tell him. “I think we can help each other through this, and, even better than that, I think we can legit help each other heal. You game?” He.”

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356. “Did you worry Theo would ever break up with you and get back together with me?” “Competing.”

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357. “I wanted to know if it was under the couch or high up in the closet where I couldn’t reach yet. He didn’t say that ‘love is within’ or ’love is all around you.”

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358. “It’s freeing to be in control.”

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359. “It’s wild how a simple sentiment takes on a new life when you’re dying.”

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360. “She doesn’t really understand Want versus Need like we do at home; just because you can afford something doesn’t mean you have to have it.”

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361. “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.”

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362. “Even if I only got to spend that first drive to the planetarium with Theo, he broke me in a way everyone should be lucky to be cracked open at least once. I had the privilege of being destroyed by him until we found a better, real me inside of the person I was pretending to be.”

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363. “I look up, and Jackson’s eyes find mine. For a second, it almost feels like we’re about to race into the hole to join you. Being buried alive has got to be better than whatever comes next.”

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

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365. “The Great Ass Hunt of Sixth Grade. Good times.”

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366. “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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367. “Anyway, we always have next Halloween.”

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368. “Don’t blame this all on me.” I’m.”

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369. “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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370. “Leaving is living before dying.”

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371. “It’s wild, but I could live until I’m a hundred and I think I’ll still never know love. Like, legit love.”

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372. “One night we argued for a solid hour over who would win in a duel between Lord Voldemort and Darth Vader. I’m surprised we’re still friends.”

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373. “This is how Thomas lives his life, one misfired dream after the other. That journey may stretch for a lifetime, but even if he doesn’t discover that spark until he’s an old man, Thomas will die with wrinkles he earned and a smile on his face.”

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374. “She once promised me that nothing bad would ever happen, and then I grew up and everything went wrong, but I believe her this time because the worst thing that can happen is that nothing will happen at all.”

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375. “It’s been rewarding to be this honest lately. I’m determined to stay this honest, as if lives depend on it, which I guess they sort of do. No one will die if I lie, but lives can grow and be fuller when I tell the truth.”

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376. “Being my own rock is promising, but it would be a huge lie if I didn’t admit that becoming a mountain with someone else could be equally rewarding.”

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

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378. “Your death is proof that I shouldn’t blindly trust these false promises of more years and months and weeks and tomorrow’s and hours and minutes just because I was young.”

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379. “He doesn’t know that I know all of this. You taught him something personal to me. You taught him a routine I had with my parents as a kid. You taught him something I never thought I would share with anyone else until you came along. You taught him a kiss I personally created for us when I grew up needing a fourth. I.”

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380. “Malcolm’s dead-ass ugly profile pic.”

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381. “You should’ve asked for help before cheating.”

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382. “Someone knowing me is supposed to be a beautiful thing and not something that prevents him from being open, right?”

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

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384. “Like we’re both stars in the sky that aren’t close enough to shine brightly together.”

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385. “I am more happy than not, Don’t forget me.”

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386. “As always, huge thanks to booksellers and librarians and educators! Now more than ever your determination to keep books like mine available for customers, patrons, and students like yours is so appreciated. Thank you for fighting that fight.”

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387. “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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388. “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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389. “You never told him what happened when you were here in June without him, did you? Sorry, that’s taboo. Even now. Jackson.”

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390. “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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391. “It’s not like my heart is in running or anything like that, but at least I learned that you can’t always choose who you’re going to be. Sometimes you’re fast enough to run track. Sometimes you’re not.”

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392. “Every universe I’ve created lately, your face keeps popping up in it.”

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393. “Today is one long morning. But I have to be the one who wakes up and gets out of bed.”

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394. “The memory of coming out to her the first time feels both familiar and unfamiliar, like an old bully you haven’t seen in years but still kind of recognize, even all grown up.”

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395. “I don’t like that I didn’t know this essential truth about Theo. I know there’s more to him than I can ever capture and keep close to me, like his fleeting thoughts or his conversations with other people, but this is bigger. It’s so central to his heart, one of my favorite things about him – the way he loves me, the way he loves his parents and sister, the way he loves the squad, the way he loves discovering life’s mysteries and solving them. This.”

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396. “To smiling while we can.”

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397. “I’m dying and we can’t trade lives. You’re not a big nothing, but you can step your damn game up anyway.”

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398. “I think we made his day by not pretending he’s invinsible.”

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399. “I only ever wanted the best for him,” I say. I’m not sure I believe I was the best fit for you, Theo, but I do think I was better than Jackson. Jackson.”

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400. “Because I refused to live invincibly on all the days.”

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