Top 400 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “How does adding salt change the freezing and boiling points of water?” “The freezing point decreases and the boiling point increases.”

— Becky Albertalli

52. “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

53. “We’d never fall that far apart. But we’ll drift. Siblings always do. They marry other people and have their own families and forget the way they used to whisper in bunk beds. It’s as inevitable as an airplane landing.”

— Becky Albertalli

54. “I can’t even help it. There’s just this thread of anticipation that I can’t seem to quell. So when the school day ends and nothing extraordinary has happened, it’s a tiny heartbreak. It’s like eleven o’clock on the night of your birthday, when you realize no one’s throwing you a surprise party after all.”

— Becky Albertalli

55. “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

56. “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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57. “It’s strange because in reality, I’m not the leading guy. Maybe I’m the best friend. I guess I didn’t think of myself as interesting until I was interesting to Blue.”

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58. “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

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

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60. “Then we just kind of stare at each other for a minute. Or ten minutes. Or ten hours. I don’t know how to measure time when Ben’s looking at me.”

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61. “I’m on the toilet at the 9:30 Club and I’m wondering how mermaids pee.”

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62. “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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63. “When we say we want to freeze time, what we mean is that we want to control our memories. We want to choose which moments we’ll keep forever. We want to guarantee the best ones won’t slip away from us somehow. So when something beautiful happens, there’s this impulse to press pause and save the game. We want to make sure we can find our way back to that moment.”

— Becky Albertalli

64. “Maybe one day we’ll talk about it. Maybe I’ll find the words, and she’ll find a way to hear them. Then we’ll cry and hug and years will pass, and we’ll move past it. It’ll be just a little bump in our backstory. Or maybe for us, it ends here. Maybe Gretchen’s my backstory.”

— Becky Albertalli

65. “Do you ever get so angry you start crying? And do you ever feel guilty for getting angry? Tell me I’m not weird.”

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66. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

67. “So here’s the thing: Simon means “the one who hears” and Spier means “the one who watches.” Which means I was basically destined to be nosy.”

— Becky Albertalli

68. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

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70. “She makes me want to shove my hand into my chest and rip my own heart out.”

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71. “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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72. “The universe knew it was love before we did.”

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73. “I remember exactly how it felt to see that first message from him in my inbox. It was a little bit surreal. He wanted to know about me. For the next few days at school after that, it felt like I was a character in a movie. I could almost imagine a close-up of my face, projected wide-screen. It’s strange, because in reality, I’m not the leading guy. Maybe I’m the best friend.”

— Becky Albertalli

74. “It’s stillness and pressure and rhythm and breathing.”

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75. “It’s ridiculous. Women are problematic if they show too much skin and problematic if they don’t show enough?”

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76. “I get locked into a cycle of not speaking. It’s like every time I think of something awesome to say, I rehearse it in my head so many times, I forget whether I’ve said it out loud yet. And I think it goes without saying that awesome one-liners are decidedly less awesome when you repeat them by accident. Better not to risk it.”

— Becky Albertalli

77. “It’s a weirdly subtle conversation, I almost don’t notice I’m being blackmailed.”

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78. “You may actually be the only person who gets more than 140 characters from me. That’s kind of awesome, right?”

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79. “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

80. “And I’m the worst kind of Slytherin, I’m the kind who’s so stupidly in love with a Gryffindor, she can’t even function.”

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81. “I don’t entirely understand how anyone gets a boyfriend. Or a girlfriend. It just seems like the most impossible odds. You have to have a crush on the exact right person at the exact right moment. And they have to like you back. A perfect alignment of feelings and circumstances. It’s almost unfathomable that it happens as often as it does.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

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83. “I actually haven’t been to Chick-fil-A for a while. My sister heard they donate money to screw over gay people, and I guess it started to feel weird eating there.”

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84. “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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85. “Or why people should just wear glasses and stop touching their eyeballs.”

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86. “I just need more time with me, I think. To really believe in my worth without anyone’s help.”

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87. “I wish I had the kind of talent that emerged fully formed. I don’t like people seeing me in progress.”

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88. “If it is a glance about me, I will die. We are amused by the sad chubby girl who is clearly enchanted by our hipster beauty.”

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89. “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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90. “Though, let’s be real: if Katie Leung sweetly rejecting Daniel Radcliffe in a Scottish accent wasn’t your sexual awakening, I don’t even want to know you.”

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91. “All of a sudden, I feel like crying. In a good way. In the best way. Because I know exactly what she means. It’s butterflies and haziness and heart eyes, but underneath all that, there’s this bass line of I can’t believe this. I can’t believe this is me.”

— Becky Albertalli

92. “Nothing is worse than the secret humiliation of being insulted by proxy.”

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93. “I am so platonically in love with Anderson Walker, it makes my brain hurt.”

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94. “I can’t decide if this is funny or sad, but I’ve spent so much time wanting a boyfriend that I can’t imagine not wanting one. I can imagine saying I don’t want one. But I can’t imagine it being true.”

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95. “Do you ever have those random nights where your brain won’t shut off, even though your body feels like five hundred pounds off exhausted?”

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96. “Maybe some songs are just unruinable.”

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97. “I never imagined I could be bumped out of my own family. I feel knocked down. I feel demoted.”

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98. “Because he thinks Facebook is the lowest common denominator of social discourse. Though he does like to talk about social media as a vehicle for constructing and performing identity. Whatever the hell that means.”

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99. “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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100. “The truth is, it’s a weird time to be coming of age. The world is really messy right now. And it’s so hard to be twelve or thirteen or fifteen or seventeen, when you’re old enough to get it, but... you can’t vote.”

— Becky Albertalli