Top 400 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “It feels like standing on the doorstep without a key to your own home.”

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

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105. “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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106. “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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107. “There’s this tug in my chest. Because when Bram says Simon’s name, he pronounces every part of it. Like it’s worth being careful over.”

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108. “I think, for me, listening to music is a very solitary thing. Or maybe that’s just something people say when they’re too lame to go to live shows.”

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109. “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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110. “If a piece of trash never makes it into a trash can, can you even call it trash?”

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111. “But when you’re that pretty, you can date anyone, and people know you picked the geek on purpose. Like, you could have had the hot guy, but you didn’t want him. But when you’re a fat geek who likes another fat geek, everyone assumes you’re settling.”

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112. “But sorry, he’s not good at being a best friend when he’s someone’s boyfriend.”

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113. “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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114. “I try not to change, but I keep changing, in all these tiny ways... And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again.”

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

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116. “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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117. “It’s your life. You’re always the protagonist.”

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118. “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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119. “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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120. “History’s a long game. It’s the longest long game.”

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

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

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123. “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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124. “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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125. “And it’s almost too perfect. Almost too Disney.”

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126. “But maybe there are always tiny sad pieces inside me, waiting to be recognized and named. Maybe it’s like that for everyone.”

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127. “Hi,” he says, quickly and softly. Like the word belongs to us.”

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

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

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131. “People like me should come with a mute button.”

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132. “Fall air always smells like possibility.”

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133. “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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134. “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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135. “I can’t seem to shake this perpetual awareness of being Molly.”

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136. “Oy. I’m getting a Lyft.”

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137. “My best friend, Ben. Maybe that’s what the universe wanted. Maybe that’s us.”

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138. “I mean, here’s the thing I don’t get. How do people come to expect that their crushes will be reciprocated? Like, how does that get to be your default assumption?”

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139. “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?”

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140. “Abby Suso is singlehandedly reclaiming eye crinkles for our generation.”

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141. “I completely understand what you mean about being locked into yourself. For me, I don’t even think it has anything to do with other people thinking they know me. 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. Even thinking about it makes me nauseated. Did I mentioned I get nauseated easily?”

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142. “I think, for me, listening to music is a very solitary thing.”

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143. “Oranges don’t have nipples,” says Sophie.”

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144. “I want to know what it feels like to have crushes that could conceivably maybe one day turn into boyfriends.”

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145. “Dude, if you like me- if you actually like me- then be jealous. Be worried. Be something. If this were Nick flirting with me, Garrett would think woah: competition. But because it’s Abby, it doesn’t mean anything. It’s like it doesn’t count.”

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146. “I really like your room,′ Arthur says. ‘This entire apartment. I hope this doesn’t come off as wrong, but I really love it because it feels more like home than my own house does. Everything here feels like it matters. If something broke or got lost, you would notice. So many things in my house feel so replaceable.”

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147. “Met een verlegen grijns haal ik mijn schouders op. Zulke momenten hebben iets magisch: door een flinterdun draadje verbonden zijn met een vreemde. Dit soort dingen maken het universum opeens een stuk kleiner. Dat is zo mooi.”

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148. “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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149. “I don’t know how people do this. How Blue did this. Two words. Two freaking words, and I’m not the same Simon anymore.”

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150. “And it’s a little different with every guy, so it’s kind of hard to generalize – but if I had to describe the feeling of a crush, I’d say this: you just finished running a mile, and you have to throw up, and you’re starving, but no food seems appealing, and your brain becomes fog, and you also have to pee. It’s this close to intolerable. But I like it.”

— Becky Albertalli