Top 400 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2024 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. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

3. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

4. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

5. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

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7. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

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

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11. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

12. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

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15. “I feel irrelevant. I hate that.”

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16. “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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17. “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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18. “Except, if I’m totally honest, I do believe it. Reid likes me. And I like that he likes me. But I’m not used to this game. It’s this totally new way of seeing myself. Like I’m some hazily lit dream girl from a movie. I’ve never been that girl before.”

— Becky Albertalli

19. “I don’t know why I do this. I definitely wasn’t planning on telling my parents the post office story. Just like I wasn’t planning on telling them about my sad crush on Cody Feinman from Hebrew school. Or my even sadder crush on Jessie’s slightly younger brother. Or the fact that I’m gay in the first place. But sometimes things just slip out.”

— Becky Albertalli

20. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

21. “I mean, I feel secure in my masculinity, too. Being secure in your masculinity isn’t the same as being straight.”

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22. “You can’t imagine how much I hated middle school. Remember the way people would look at you blankly and say, “Um, okaaay,” after you finished talking? Everyone just had to make it so clear that, whatever you were thinking or feeling, you were totally alone. The worst part, of course, was that I did the same thing to other people. It makes me a little nauseated just remembering that.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

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24. “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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25. “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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26. “Because I have to admit: there’s something really badass about truly, honestly not caring what people think about you.”

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27. “I’ve never understood the appeal of drinking. It’s not like liquor tastes good. I mean, I know it’s not about that. It’s about feeling loose and unstoppable. Simon described it to me once. He said drinking lets you say and do things without filtering or overthinking. But I don’t get how that’s a good thing.”

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28. “You start with something and maybe end with everything.”

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29. “I believe in love at first sight. Fate, the universe, all of it. But not how you’re thinking. I don’t mean it in the our souls were split and you’re my other half forever and ever sort of way. I just think you’re meant to meet some people. I think the universe nudges them into your path.”

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

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

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32. “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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33. “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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34. “It’s not about waiting for the good parts of history. We’re the ones who have to make them happen. We have to draw the timeline ourselves.” “Yeah, well. Right now, that just feels like a fuckton of pointless work.” “But the work itself is the point. You keep doing it, because otherwise, how do you keep from feeling helpless? It’s like those sharks that keep swimming or they die,” I say. “It’s about the act of resisting. Waking up every day and deciding not to give up.”

— Becky Albertalli

35. “There are some socks that shouldn’t be washed by your mom.”

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36. “But there’s this thing I feel when I meet another Jewish person in the wild. It’s like a secret invisible high five.”

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37. “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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38. “But there’s this awfulness that comes when a guy thinks you like him. It’s as if he’s fully clothed and you’re naked in front of him. It’s like your heart suddenly lives outside your body, and whenever he wants, he can reach out and squeeze it.”

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39. “I really love the smell of Waffle House. It’s this perfect combination of butter, maple syrup, bacon, and maybe onions? Whatever it is, they should bottle it up and pour it into a scented marker, so I can draw hot manga characters who smell like WaHo.”

— Becky Albertalli

40. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

41. “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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42. “Sometimes happily ever afters aren’t about your happiness at all.”

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43. “You would matter. That’s the thing. I get into this weird place sometimes where I worry about that. I’ve never told anyone this – not my moms, not even Cassie – but that’s the thing I’m most afraid of. Not mattering. Existing in a world that doesn’t care who I am. It’s this whole other level of aloneness.”

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44. “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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45. “It’s really amazing, isn’t it? Someone can trigger your sexual identity crisis and not have a clue they’re doing it.”

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46. “The classic honeymoon stage where everyone feels like they’re riding a unicorn on floating rainbows while drinking Skittle smoothies. But eventually you realize the unicorn was just a horse in costume and now you have cavities.”

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47. “My favorite is always the halfway point, where Andy says, “Okay, whatever, I’m done. I’m over it.” But then, a split second later: “Okay, but ALSO, can I just say –.”

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48. “I’m too busy trying not to be in love with someone who isn’t real.”

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49. “There’s just something terrifying about admitting you like someone. In a way, it’s actually easier when there’s no chance of anything happening. But there’s this threshold where things suddenly become possible. And then your cards are on the table. And there you are, wanting, right out in the open.”

— Becky Albertalli

50. “I was basically born knowing how to casually stalk people on social media.”

— Becky Albertalli