Top 450 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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.”

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102. “And you” – I prod his arm – “need to stop rereading that YA book where everyone dies at the end.”

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103. “So, I keep thinking about the idea of secret identities. Do you ever feel locked into yourself? I’m not sure if I’m making sense here. I guess what I mean is that sometimes it seems like everyone knows who I am except me.”

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104. “History’s a long game. It’s the longest long game.”

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105. “Sometimes I feel like New Yorkers do New York wrong. Where are the people swinging from subway poles and dancing on fire escapes and kissing in Times Square? The post office flash mob proposal was a start, but when’s the next big number? I pictured New York like West Side Story plus In the Heights plus Avenue Q – but really, it’s just construction and traffic and iPhones and humidity.”

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106. “It’s strange how you can sometimes still feel self-conscious around people you’ve known your whole life.”

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107. “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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108. “Or why people should just wear glasses and stop touching their eyeballs.”

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109. “I keep my hand locked with Maya’s, feeling dizzy with joy. Like I’m threaded with something ancient, something larger than life. I feel so Jewish. I don’t think anything’s made me feel this wholly, utterly Jewish since Fifi. But this is the opposite of Fifi. The precise polar opposite.”

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110. “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.”

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111. “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.”

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112. “I need to spend some time in my head with this new Simon. My parents have a way of ruining things like this. They get so curious. It’s like they have this idea of me, and whenever I step outside of that, it blows their minds. There’s something so embarrassing about that in a way I can’t even describe.”

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113. “RIP Leah Burke. She died of acute awkwardosis.”

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114. “Thomas Jefferson helped the Marquis de Lafayette draft a declaration,” Simon blurts. “Mr. Spier, memorizing the Hamilton soundtrack is not going to save you on the AP Euro exam.”

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

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116. “And suddenly, her lips are on mine, and my hands are on her waist, and I’m kissing her back so fiercely, I forget how to breathe. I feel like a campfire, like a could burn for days. Because the thing about Abby is that she kisses like she dances. Like she’s totally there. Like she’s handing you her heart.”

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117. “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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118. “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.”

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

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120. “Really?” He sounds surprised. Have I never told him about Cassie? But I guess when we’re at work, we talk about random stuff. We talk about the things we like, rather than the things we are.”

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121. “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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122. “And the look on her face when she read the comments, like the idea of people knowing about us was too mortifying to stomach. Yeah. That felt great. Almost as great as when she said it’s not going to happen. Ever. In the most matter-of-fact tone. Like I was supposed to have already understood that. Like it’s obvious. Cool. I guess I’m just delusional.”

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123. “It’s that feeling of someone knowing you in all the ways you needed to be known.”

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124. “I just look at her. I can’t believe I’m allowed to do this. I can just stare at her face without it being creepy. I want to memorize every single inch of this Abby – the shine of her cheekbones and the brightness of her eyes. There are tears in her lashes, and her lips are sort of puffy. I don’t know how this girl can go from laughing to crying to kissing and back, and still come out of it looking like an actual moonbeam.”

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125. “I don’t know if we’re in a love story or a story about love.”

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126. “I... really like going to the homecoming game. I guess it’s something about the lights and the drumbeats and the scent of the air. Fall air always smells like possibility.”

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127. “It’s like he’s our age telling his parents he knocked someone up. Which is totally the straight person equivalent of coming out. 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. I’m just saying.”

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128. “And it’s almost too perfect. Almost too Disney.”

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129. “It’s more that I want to leap in and say certain things and do certain things, but I always seem to hold myself back. I think a big part of me is afraid.”

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130. “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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131. “So, maybe I should let my heart break, just to prove that my heart can take it.”

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

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133. “All my ships, straight-up kissing: Inej and Nina, Percabeth, a few original characters.”

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134. “Sometimes I think Garrett calculates the exact most awkward way to position his body in any given moment, and then he just goes for it.”

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

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137. “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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138. “I guess they feel secure enough in their masculinity that they that they don’t care. I actually hate when people say that. 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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139. “Middle school is like this endless horror show. Well, maybe not endless, because it ended, but it really burns into your psyche. I don’t care who you are.”

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140. “But the curtains start to open. And I keep moving forward.”

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

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142. “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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143. “It feels like we’re the last survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Wonder Woman and a gay dementor. It doesn’t bode well for the survival of the species.”

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144. “And even though I’m looking in from the outside, I get closer with every step.”

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145. “She probably thinks Troye Sivan’s songs are about girls.”

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146. “I don’t know. There’s just something kind of mortifying to me about the intensity of those feelings. I remember them so clearly.”

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147. “And this gay thing. It feels so big. It’s almost insurmountable. I don’t know how to tell them something like this and still come out of it feeling like Simon. Because if Leah and Nick don’t recognize me, I don’t even recognize myself anymore.”

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148. “Maybe some songs are just unruinable.”

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

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150. “Supongo que con algo te tienes que obsesionar antes de saber que existe el sexo.”

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