Top 300 Alice Oseman Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Art reflects life,” said Carys. “Or... maybe it’s the other way round.”

— Alice Oseman

152. “I used to think I was pathetic for thinking soppy, romantic stuff like that. I don’t anymore. I just keep thinking it. I keep wanting him here. I keep wanting him to stay.”

— Alice Oseman

153. “Why do things have to be so complicated?” “Ah, the eternally wise words of Avril Lavigne.”

— Alice Oseman

154. “Why did I do this? Why am I like this?”

— Alice Oseman

155. “He smiled and looked away. ‘Sometimes I think we’re the same person... but we just got accidentally split into two before we were born.”

— Alice Oseman

156. “Perhaps it is I who have already exploded.”

— Alice Oseman

157. “If we can talk about anxiety, we can talk about poo. They’re basically the same thing.”

— Alice Oseman

158. “Tea is the elixir of life!”

— Alice Oseman

159. “I just. Loved. Love.”

— Alice Oseman

160. “I wanted to fly into the sky and grab on to an aeroplane and fade away into the distance.”

— Alice Oseman

161. “You look like you’re talking about something interesting. I want gossip. Spill.”

— Alice Oseman

162. “Well then,′ says Bliss, ‘Man. Yikes. Jeepers. Am I right?”

— Alice Oseman

163. “Alice wrote a book when she was seventeen. This is that book.”

— Alice Oseman

164. “There’s magic under our feet, not just in our eyes.”

— Alice Oseman

165. “Love can’t cure a mental illness.”

— Alice Oseman

166. “I do try. I have tried. I have tried for sixteen years.”

— Alice Oseman

167. “He raises the flask and studies it, as if he’d forgotten all about it. He looks back at me and his eyes sparkle and he bellows into the night: “Tea is the elixir of life!”

— Alice Oseman

168. “I didn’t just wake up one day like Oh look, guess I’m gay now!”

— Alice Oseman

169. “I realised that it was because what I was doing wasn’t ‘giving up’. It was acceptance.”

— Alice Oseman

170. “I used to dream of spellbinding, endless, forever romance. A beautiful story of meeting a person who could change your whole world. But now, I’m realized friendship could be that too.”

— Alice Oseman

171. “You’re going to be blue forever.”

— Alice Oseman

172. “I hate not having anything to hold while I’m not talking. What do you do with your hands?”

— Alice Oseman

173. “We’d found him. We’d helped him. We’d rescued him – we hoped.”

— Alice Oseman

174. “Maybe it just takes seventy years to get the hang of being alive.”

— Alice Oseman

175. “It’s beautiful,′ I say. ‘Don’t you think the snow is beautiful?’ I expect Michael to agree with me, but he doesn’t. ‘I don’t know,’ he says. ‘It’s just cold. It’s romantic, I guess, but it just makes things cold.”

— Alice Oseman

176. “We walked on and into the path through the cornfield. The corn had grown so tall that we couldn’t see over it.”

— Alice Oseman

177. “I felt like I was grieving. I was grieving this fake life, a fantasy future that I was never going to live.”

— Alice Oseman

178. “You’re literally me, but with all the trash cleared away.”

— Alice Oseman

179. “Life isn’t all textbooks and grades.”

— Alice Oseman

180. “I don’t like guys. Oh, so you like girls? No, I don’t like girls either. What? That doesn’t make any sense. Yes, it does. It’s a real thing. You just haven’t met the right person yet. It’ll happen with time. No, it won’t. This is who I am. Are you feeling OK? Maybe we should get you an appointment with the GP. It’s called being ‘aromantic asexual’. Well, that sounds fake, doesn’t it? Did you hear about that on the internet?”

— Alice Oseman

181. “I wanted so badly to ask him. But that’s the one thing you can’t just ask. You’ve just got to wait until they tell you.”

— Alice Oseman

182. “What’s left underneath is the real Michael, the fire, the boy who skates, the boy who followed me to a restaurant to tell me something he couldn’t remember, the boy who has nothing better to do than force me to get out of the house and live.”

— Alice Oseman

183. “It’s not a mid-life crisis. It’s just a life crisis.”

— Alice Oseman

184. “I think sometimes,’ says Nick, ’you’re so scared of being a burden that it makes you terrified to ask for help. But you have lots of people around you that would be there for you, if you opened up about what help you need.”

— Alice Oseman

185. “I’m having a proper full-on gay crisis.”

— Alice Oseman

186. “Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they’re just as important.”

— Alice Oseman

187. “I don’t really feel sad. I don’t really feel anything.”

— Alice Oseman

188. “Nick’s so in love with you it’s a little unbearable to watch sometimes.”

— Alice Oseman

189. “Smiles, hugs, years together, holidays, late-night confessions, tears, phone calls, one million words – they don’t mean anything. Becky doesn’t care. No one really cares.”

— Alice Oseman

190. “People can be going through stuff... and you just have no idea.”

— Alice Oseman

191. “I don’t feel like myself.”

— Alice Oseman

192. “Jesus Christ. Creepers are the ugliest shoes I have ever seen.”

— Alice Oseman

193. “Just a fairly capable Facebook stalker. You’re all lucky I’m not a serial killer.”

— Alice Oseman

194. “You’re a sunshine angel.”

— Alice Oseman

195. “He looked like he could rise from the ground and float amongst the clouds and become the new sun. He looked like he could kill someone with a smile. He looked like the best person in the world.”

— Alice Oseman

196. “You really cannot accept that people care!” I don’t say anything. He’s right. But I don’t say anything.”

— Alice Oseman

197. “When people know you’re mentally ill, most either want to ignore it completely or treat you like you’re strange, scary or fascinating.”

— Alice Oseman

198. “I find his hand and take it in mine. I lean against him and he still smells like him, like home.”

— Alice Oseman

199. “Nothing fazed Jason. He had whatever the opposite of anxiety was. Absolute unerring peace of mind.”

— Alice Oseman

200. “I think... it’s unlikely anyone would want to catch a grenade for anyone else. Or just in front of a train for someone else. That’s very counter-productive.”

— Alice Oseman