Top 300 Alice Oseman Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Alice wrote a book when she was seventeen. This is that book.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

153. “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

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

— Alice Oseman

155. “You’re gonna be OK. There’s nothing you have to do except be.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

157. “I’ve always hated being asked if I’m OK. The available answers are either to lie and say I’m fine, or to massively and embarrassingly overshare.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

161. “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

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

164. “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

165. “Emotions are humanity’s fatal disease. And we’re all dying.”

— Alice Oseman

166. “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

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

169. “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

170. “Tea is the elixir of life!”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

172. “I’m tired, though. I’m so tired of defending myself.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

175. “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

176. “You’re a sunshine angel.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

178. “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

179. “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

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

— Alice Oseman

181. “They gave these girls something very safe to love. Something that would never bite them back. In the sixties, everything would bite you back if you were a girl.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

183. “I almost always did work when I got home, because whenever I wasn’t doing schoolwork I felt like I was wasting my time.”

— Alice Oseman

184. “We all get along fine, but I don’t feel like we ever talk about anything important.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

186. “There’s this idea that if you’re not straight, you have to tell all your family and friends immediately, like you owe it to them. But you don’t. You don’t have to do anything until you’re ready.”

— Alice Oseman

187. “We stay like that, in the cold porch, just for a few minutes, without saying anything, without moving, and then he whispers, ‘You okay?’ and I start to cry, because that’ what happens when people ask me that question.”

— Alice Oseman

188. “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

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

— Alice Oseman

190. “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

191. “I thought... I just really liked you as a friend... a best friend... because, like, I want to hang out with you all the time and I just love everything about you... but I kept wanting to... I don’t know... hug you and hold your hand and then yesterday, when you suggested it, I-I really wanted to kiss you.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

193. “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

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

— Alice Oseman

195. “And the saddest thing about you fans is that you don’t care about yourselves. You would give your lives for these boys. They practically keep you alive. But beneath that, and if you took all that away, you fundamentally do not value yourself.”

— Alice Oseman

196. “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

197. “I hate the way people react when they learn Charlie spent a few weeks as an in-patient. As if it’s the most horrific thing they’ve ever heard. It’s because it automatically makes them think mental asylum and crazy people, instead of treatment and recovery and learning to manage an eating disorder.”

— Alice Oseman

198. “It was because of all of that, no doubt, that this new identity felt like a loss, when in reality, it should have been a beautiful discovery.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

200. “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