Top 300 Alice Oseman Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “How could I feel so sad about giving up these things that I did not actually want?”

— Alice Oseman

202. “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

203. “If I could spend every night of my life eating snacks and watching something silly in a giant bed with one of my best friends, I’d be happy.”

— Alice Oseman

204. “You’re a sunshine angel.”

— Alice Oseman

205. “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

206. “02:12:23:26. Two days, twelve hours, twenty-three minutes, twenty-six seconds until Thursday turns into Friday. Solitaire antics today have been focused around the number 2: hundreds of posters, on Post-its on every surface, written on all whiteboards, popping up on the computers. From here I can see that the number 2 is painted in red directly onto the snow of the field. It looks a bit like blood.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

208. “She was everything I wasn’t – she was drama, emotion, intrigue, power. I was nothing. Nothing happened to me.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

210. “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

211. “I don’t want people in my head, picking out this and that, permanently picking up the broken pieces of me.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

214. “My running theory was that my shyness and introversion were linked to my whole ‘never fancying anyone’ situation – maybe I just didn’t talk to enough people, or maybe people just stressed me out in general, and that was why I’d never wanted to kiss anyone. If I just improved my confidence, tried to be a bit more open and sociable, I’d be able to do and feel those things, like most people.”

— Alice Oseman

215. “I have a lot more love than some people in the world. Even if I’ll never have a wedding.” She took a big spoonful of ice cream. “There’s definitely love for ice cream, let me tell you that.”

— Alice Oseman

216. “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

217. “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

218. “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

219. “Time passes. I do stuff. Some of it matters. Some of it doesn’t.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

221. “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

222. “I love Nick. I love Nick so much.”

— Alice Oseman

223. “But my brain won’t stop taking clouds and turning them into hurricanes.”

— Alice Oseman

224. “Everyone knows psychology A Level came straight out of hell.”

— Alice Oseman

225. “It wasn’t a big deal. It just made me feel weird. I thought I enjoyed all this stuff, but maybe I was an academic at heart after all. I kept peeling of layers of my personality, but I seemed to be going in circles. Everytime I thought I’d worked out what I really enjoyed, I started to second-guess myself. Maybe I just didn’t enjoy anything anymore.”

— Alice Oseman

226. “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

227. “Some people aren’t meant for school, that doesn’t mean they aren’t meant for life.”

— Alice Oseman

228. “You just can’t help wanting to protect him, can you! Because he’s a pathetic little f-slur’ Nick punches him.”

— Alice Oseman

229. “Friends are important. People who are alone are usually the antagonists.”

— Alice Oseman

230. “I just sit here, doing nothing, assuming that someone else is going to make things better.”

— Alice Oseman

231. “I used to think that difficult was better than boring, but I know better now. There have been a lot of difficult day. There have been too many difficult days.”

— Alice Oseman

232. “I listen to the dark. They’re all coming to get you. Your heartbeats are footsteps. Your brother is unwell. You don’t have any friends. Nobody feels bad for you. Beauty and the Beast isn’t real. It’s funny because it’s true. Don’t be sad anymore. Don’t be sad anymore.”

— Alice Oseman

233. “Nick is actually the human embodiment of a golden retriever puppy, as well as being Truham’s rugby captain and a genuinely lovely person.”

— Alice Oseman

234. “Why should I care about what anyone thinks any more? Why should I care about anything anymore?”

— Alice Oseman

235. “You would give your life for these boys. You cling to them like you’re reaching out to a god. They practically keep you alive. But beneath that, and if you took all that away, you fundimentally do not value yourself. All your love is given away. You leave nothing for yourself.”

— Alice Oseman

236. “I begin to wonder how Michael can so easily make something wonderful out of something cold, and then I begin to wonder whether lots of people are like this, and I begin to wonder whether, if I wasn’t so busy thinking about other things, I would be like this.”

— Alice Oseman

237. “You’ll be sad without fairy lights. Everyone’s sad without fairy lights.”

— Alice Oseman

238. “You can fly, Michael.”

— Alice Oseman

239. “I keep thinking as I’m spinning how everything looks so sad, but if this day were to go down in history, everyone would talk about what a beautiful day it was.”

— Alice Oseman

240. “And we loved ourselves anyway.”

— Alice Oseman

241. “Even if things are harder when people know about us, we’ll be okay, because we’ve got each other.”

— Alice Oseman

242. “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

243. “I loved the idea in theory – having a sexy little adventure in a dark room in someone else’s house with someone you’ve been on-and-off flirting with for a couple of months – but the reality? Having to actually touch genitals with someone? Ew.”

— Alice Oseman

244. “He makes me believe that there are good prople in this world. When I met Michael Holden, I knew, deep down, that he was the best person you could possibly hope to be – so perfect that he was unreal. And it made me sort of hate him. However, rather than slowly learning more and more good things about him, I have come across flaw after flaw after flaw. And you know what? That’s what makes me like him now. That’s why he is a real perfect person. Because he is a real person.”

— Alice Oseman

245. “I see you in every fire that lights.”

— Alice Oseman

246. “He’ being unfair, but I don’t have any right to be annoyed at him.”

— Alice Oseman

247. “My future still terrified me. But everything seemed a little brighter when my best friends were around.”

— Alice Oseman

248. “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

249. “I don’t know, I just don’t care, it’ll all be all right in the end or something, like, so it’s getting to the point where I just don’t do any work if I don’t have to, I only do the things I have to do, but I just don’t care? I don’t know, this doesn’t make any sense...”

— Alice Oseman

250. “I don’t really like going out, to be honest. I’m a bit of a loser.”

— Alice Oseman