Top 300 Alice Oseman Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “I think it’s better to just read and not study books.”

— Alice Oseman

152. “YOU’RE AN IDIOT,” said Mum, when I relayed to her the entire situation on Wednesday. “Not an unintelligent idiot, but a sort of naive idiot who manages to fall into a difficult situation and then can’t get out of it because she’s too awkward.”

— Alice Oseman

153. “I wasn’t sure how anyone could mistake an Indian girl for a British-Ethiopian girl, but there it is. Gotta love white people.”

— Alice Oseman

154. “I love this. I love us. I love our weird, boring life.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

156. “On the drive back, Charlie falls asleep in my car. I turn the radio on and thank the universe that my life is like this.”

— Alice Oseman

157. “I’m at uni for three months and suddenly I’m not straight any more.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

159. “I don’t think I need to try everything to know I don’t like it.”

— Alice Oseman

160. “It felt so real. It didn’t feel like I was trying to be someone I’m not, like I was putting on an act. I cared about him. And he cared about me. That was all it was.”

— Alice Oseman

161. “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

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

165. “Tea is the elixir of life!”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

168. “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

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

— Alice Oseman

170. “I wonder sometimes whether you’ve exploded already, like a star, and what I’m seeing you is three million years into the past, and you’re not here anyore. How can we be together here, now, when you are so far away. When you are so far ago? I’m shouting so loudly, but you never turn around to see me. Perhaps it is I who have already exploded. Either way, we are going to bring beautiful things into the universe.”

— Alice Oseman

171. “Art reflects life,” said Carys. “Or... maybe it’s the other way round.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

173. “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

174. “Isn’t that an excellent name for a cat? Steve.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

176. “I just. Loved. Love.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

181. “I don’t feel like myself.”

— Alice Oseman

182. “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

183. “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

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

— Alice Oseman

185. “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

186. “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

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

189. “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

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

193. “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

194. “I don’t like other people inside my room because I’m terrified they’re going to uncover one of my secrets, like my fan art habits or my internet history or the fact that I one hundred per cent still sleep with a teddy bear.”

— Alice Oseman

195. “I just care about you so much... but I’ve always got this fear that... one day you’ll leave. Or Pip and Jason will leave, or... I don’t know.′ Fresh tears fell from my cheeks. ‘I’m never going to fall in love, so... my friendships are all I have, so... I just... can’t bear the idea of losing any of my friends. Because I’m never going to have that one special person.”

— Alice Oseman

196. “I don’t want to make any more mistakes. And I know that this is not a mistake... You are not a mistake.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

198. “Sometimes people need more support that just one person can give.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman