Top 400 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “It’s strange how you can sometimes still feel self-conscious around people you’ve known your whole life.”

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

— Becky Albertalli

103. “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

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

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

— Becky Albertalli

107. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

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109. “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

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

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111. “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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112. “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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113. “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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114. “If a piece of trash never makes it into a trash can, can you even call it trash?”

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115. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

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117. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

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119. “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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120. “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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121. “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.”

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

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

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124. “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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125. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

126. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

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

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

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

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

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135. “Maybe some songs are just unruinable.”

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

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137. “That girl is a suburban dad’s midlife crisis in a high school senior’s body.”

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

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139. “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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140. “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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141. “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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142. “No one person can fix it all, my father says. All our actions are little drops that collect into a groundswell for change. It’s the only way most change happens. Ordinary people doing everything they can.”

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143. “I think every relationship is actually a million relationships. I can’t decide if that’s a bad thing.”

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144. “It’s this strangling fear that we’ll be sitting there and we’ll run out of something to say and I’ll be able to witness the exact moment someone falls out of love with me because I don’t have enough substance to keep a conversation alive over a meal. Why would you want to talk to me for the rest of your life?”

— Becky Albertalli

145. “A dementor,” I say. “What in God’s holy name is that?” “A dementor? From Harry Potter?” “Well, put your hood back, for the love of Jesus. And who are you supposed to be?” “Kim Kardashian,” says Leah, just completely deadpan. Garrett looks confused. “Tohru from Fruits Basket.”

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146. “Maybe this won’t work out and I won’t care about it ending. But I can’t get from A to B without us being A and B first. Live in the moment.”

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147. “Fall air always smells like possibility.”

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148. “It feels like standing on the doorstep without a key to your own home.”

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149. “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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150. “It’s like when your scene partner’s supposed to cut you off and overlap your line, but they don’t. That same quiet beat of panic and awkwardness.”

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