Top 300 Alice Oseman Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “I don’t really feel sad. I don’t really feel anything.”

— Alice Oseman

202. “You can fly, Michael.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

208. “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

209. “And we loved ourselves anyway.”

— Alice Oseman

210. “Sometimes I wish I could spend a little more time just doing something utterly pointless.”

— Alice Oseman

211. “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

212. “How could I feel so sad about giving up these things that I did not actually want?”

— Alice Oseman

213. “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

214. “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

215. “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

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

— Alice Oseman

217. “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

218. “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

219. “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

220. “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

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

— Alice Oseman

222. “Until then, we would keep the beds together.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

224. “She looked like a majestic elf and I looked like a gremlin.”

— Alice Oseman

225. “I don’t feel like myself.”

— Alice Oseman

226. “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

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

— Alice Oseman

228. “I stayed silent because I had nothing to contribute, which was nothing unusual for me around my school friends, but it felt weird, because I’d forgotten that this was how I normally behaved.”

— Alice Oseman

229. “And the three of us laugh. And I imagine this must be what it’s like to have real friends.”

— Alice Oseman

230. “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

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

— Alice Oseman

232. “He was bawling his eyes out and hugging everyone, including some scared-looking Year 7s who just wanted to catch their bus.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

234. “I want to cry. I want to do anything to stop him from leaving.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

237. “How was he eighteen? How could anyone I knew possibly be eighteen years old?”

— Alice Oseman

238. “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

239. “Evelyn,” says Becky. “Firstly, I resent the fangirl idea that Draco Malfoy is some kind of beautifully tortured soul who is searching for redemption and understanding.”

— Alice Oseman

240. “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

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

— Alice Oseman

242. “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

243. “I don’t particularly feel like wasting a year of my life turning up to rehearsals just to stand still and wave my arms around occasionally.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

246. “On the one hand I’m thinking yeah this work is important, like, it’s really important that I get the grades and get accepted, but on the other hand my brain is just like, I don’t know, I just don’t care, it’ll all be alright in the end or something, like, so it’s getting to the point where I just don’t do any work that I don’t have to, I only do the things that I have to do, but I just don’t care? I don’t know, this doesn’t make any sense...”

— Alice Oseman

247. “So congrats on your incredibly difficult that gay people actually do have feelings, and have a nice life.”

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

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

— Alice Oseman

250. “I didn’t know what my hobbies were anymore, except yearning for romance and reading fanfiction.”

— Alice Oseman