Top 400 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “But it sucks when life moves along without you. Sometimes I feel left out even when life’s moving along with me.”

— Becky Albertalli

2. “Believing in the universe is definitely a sign from the universe.”

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3. “But I’m gay. GAY. Gaaaaaaaayyyyy.”

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4. “Just because someone says they love you doesn’t mean they’ll never say it to someone else.”

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5. “But I’m tired of coming out. All I ever do is come out. I try not to change, but I keep changing, in all these tiny ways. I get a girlfriend. I have a beer. And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again.”

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6. “I just want to make you happy. But I’ll be there when you’re not happy, too. If you’re sad, I’ll sit inside it with you. I know I’m going to mess up sometimes, too, but I promise to say sorry a lot, because that’s what people do when they want something to work.”

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7. “There’s something about him. It’s this tug in my chest. It’s this feeling like I have to know him, like it’s inevitable.”

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8. “Everything that looks effortless requires too much effort.”

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9. “I hate hating my body. Actually, I don’t even hate my body. I just worry everyone else might.”

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10. “Embrace the suck. Let your guts hang out a little.”

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11. “People really are like house with vast rooms and tiny windows. And maybe it’s a good thing, the way we never stop surprising each other.”

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12. “I can’t read Drarry in the living room, even when my mom’s not home. Drarry belongs in my bedroom. I don’t care if that sounds dirty.”

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13. “Because who you like can’t be forced or persuaded or manipulated.”

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14. “Yes, no, maybe so, right?”

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15. “It just feels like I’m on the outside somehow. Not all the time. Just sometimes. But yeah. I feel irrelevant. I hate that.”

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16. “I’M ON THE TOILET AT the 9:30 Club, and I’m wondering how mermaids pee. This isn’t random. There’s a mermaid Barbie attached to the door of the bathroom here. Which is a pretty odd choice for a bathroom mascot. If that’s even a thing. Bathroom mascots. But.”

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17. “The way I feel about him is like a heartbeat – soft and persistent, underlying everything.”

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18. “Because that’s the thing about change. It’s so painfully normal. It’s the most basic of all tragedies.”

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19. “It’s funny – I always imagined dating someone would be pretty straightforward, once you established you liked each other, but it’s not. There’s this whole new world of bewildering situations. Like how many days should you go between dates? How do you find out if he wants to be your boyfriend?”

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20. “God, Arthur.” He kisses me. “Te quiero. Estoy enamorado. You don’t even know.” And I don’t speak a word of Spanish, but when I look at his face, I get it.”

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21. “Everybody deserves a great love story.”

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22. “I feel irrelevant. I hate that.”

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23. “Really, though, there are only two kinds of weather: hoodie weather and weather where you wear a hoodie anyway.”

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24. “A part of me feels like I jumped over some kind of border, and now I’m on the other side realizing I can’t cross back.”

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25. “As a side note, don’t you think everyone should have to come out? Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it should be this big awkward thing whether you’re straight, gay, bi, or whatever. Just saying.”

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26. “I honestly think there are two kinds of quiet people. There’s the kind like me, who are secretly full of storms and spinning gears. And then there’s the kind like Olivia, who is the actual personification of an ocean on a sunny day.”

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27. “I like no endings. I like things that don’t end.”

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28. “But it’s not quite so raw. You know, when you’re seventeen, everything feels like the end of the world. Or the beginning of the world. And that’s an awesome thing.”

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29. “Okay. I have a crush. But it’s not like having a crush on some random musician or actor or Harry freaking Potter. This is the real deal. It has to be. It’s almost debilitating.”

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30. “Every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again.”

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31. “Even if I crack the code somehow, it doesn’t change the fact that Blue isn’t interested. He found out who I am. And now it’s broken, and I don’t know what to do. I told him I understand if he’s not attracted to me. I tried to make it sound like I don’t mind. But I don’t understand. And I totally mind.”

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32. “But No. Not even close. Insteead, It’s me bleeding out all my neuroses, looking for answers to questions i have no right to be asking. But I don’t know how to make myself stop them. People like me should come with a mute button.”

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33. “And Leah’s also into slash fanfiction, which got me curious enough to poke around the internet and find some last summer. I couldn’t believe how much there was to choose from: Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy hooking up in thousands of ways in every broom closet at Hogwarts. I found the ones with decent grammar and stayed up reading all night. It was a weird couple of weeks. That was the summer I taught myself how to do laundry. There are some socks that shouldn’t be washed by your mom.”

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34. “And the feeling that people are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows.”

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35. “We might give it our all and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, don’t you think?”

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36. “Because that’s why bi girls exist, Garrett. For your masturbatory fantasies.”

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37. “It’s like there’s this idea that you have to earn your label through suffering. And then you have to prove it with who you date, how you dress, how other people perceive you.”

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38. “What’s wrong with slowmance? That should be a word. It’s like a slow romance. A way to let the romantic moments linger.”

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39. “He talked about the ocean between people. And how the whole point of everything is to find a shore worth swimming to.”

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40. “Here’s the thing: I’m used to being told I have a pretty face. Or pretty hair, or pretty eyes. But it’s different, being called beautiful. Just beautiful, without conditions.”

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41. “That awkward moment when you realize you’ve been making gay jokes in front of your gay kid for the last 17 years.”

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42. “I don’t feel like doing anything. I don’t even know what I need right now. I just want to feel normal.”

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43. “Honest to God, this is the absolute best kind of moment. The auditorium lights are off except for ones over the stage, and we’re all bright eyed and giggle-drunk. I fall a little bit in love with everyone.”

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44. “People don’t warn you that heartbreak is a chronic condition. Maybe it quiets down a little over time, or you can muffle it with distance, but the ache never quite dials down to zero. It’s there lurking in the background, ready to flare back up the minute you let your guard down.”

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45. “They put me in a box, and every time I try to nudge the lid open, they slam it back down. It’s like nothing about me is allowed to change.”

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46. “There’s something about you that makes me want to open up, and that’s slightly terrifying to me.”

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47. “But you know, there’s an upside here. Because when you spend so much time just intensely wanting something, and then you actually get the thing? It’s magic.” All.”

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48. “Once you come out, you can’t really go back in. It’s a little bit terrifying, isn’t it? I know we’re so lucky we’re coming out now and not twenty years ago, but it’s still really a leap of faith. It’s easier than I thought it would be, but at the same time, it’s so much harder.”

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49. “Because I have to admit: there’s something really badass about truly, honestly not caring what people think about you.”

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50. “He tells me to pick the music. I’m not sure if he knows that handing me his iPod is like handing me the window to his soul.”

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