Top 400 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I bring the leftovers to rehearsal, and Ms. Albright lets us have a cake picnic on the stage. And by cake picnic, I mean drama kids hunched over the box like vultures shoveling cake by the fistful.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

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103. “And no red icing. Leah knows I thinks it tastes too red.”

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104. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

105. “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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106. “Can I hug you?” he asks softly. I nod. He puts his arms around me. I rest my head in the crook of his neck. He smells like lemons and mint. For the first time in a long time, I don’t feel alone.”

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107. “It’s like it doesn’t even matter if I like my body, because there’s always someone there to remind me I shouldn’t.”

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

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109. “Trying not to think about something is like playing freaking Whac-a-Mole. Every time you push one thought down, another one nudges its way to the surface.”

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110. “Leah has a girlcrush on Jenny Lewis. You can’t not have a crush on Jenny Lewis. I’m twenty years younger than her and unquestionably gay, but yeah, I’d make out with her.”

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111. “It’s finding out the door you were banging on is finally unlocked. Maybe it was unlocked the whole time.”

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

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113. “Some people are meant to change history. And some people are meant to change out of their vomity interview clothes.”

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114. “The longer you put good things off, the longer they’re there waiting for you.”

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115. “Gay people have to love Oreos now,” explains Anderson.”

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116. “You can’t vag-block someone in a frozen yogurt shop. A frozen yogurt shop vag-blocks itself.”

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117. “Now it seems like those words are everywhere. Maybe because we’re older. Or maybe because the world sucks more.”

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118. “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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119. “And you know what? Love is worth wanting.”

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120. “We all talk a big game like the universe is actually setting us up for something epic, and then everything ends. If we were all just a little more realistic, we wouldn’t keep losing people.”

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121. “Hush,” I say, and my cheeks burn. Freaking Abby never misses a freaking thing.”

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122. “I pick the path through the trees, and it’s like stepping into a fairy tale. Girl in a gown walks into a forest. It’s strange how secluded this feels, even with the pavilion directly behind me. The trees are so thick, they’re practically a curtain, and the music sounds like it’s beaming in from another galaxy.”

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

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124. “The universe wouldn’t get us together for just one summer, right?”

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125. “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

126. “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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127. “I’m used to the other kind of party. The kind where you get to someone’s house and their mom shows you down to the basement, and there’s junk food and Apples to Apples and a bunch of people randomly singing. Maybe some people playing video games.”

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128. “A girl gets up from her corner table, wiping it down with napkins, and before I can charge to see if she’s leaving, two vultures – excuse me, dudes in suits on their lunch break – swarm in and take the table.”

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129. “Awkwardness should be a requirement.”

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130. “I love you. I’m really glad the universe made us happen.”

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131. “I just feel like I’m a really defective girl in some ways.”

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132. “Like the way you can memorize someone’s gestures but never know their thoughts. And the feeling that people are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows.”

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133. “Fall air always smells like possibility.”

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

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137. “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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138. “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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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. “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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141. “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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142. “I want to know what it feels like to have crushes that could conceivably maybe one day turn into boyfriends.”

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143. “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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144. “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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145. “Or why people should just wear glasses and stop touching their eyeballs.”

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146. “How does adding salt change the freezing and boiling points of water?” “The freezing point decreases and the boiling point increases.”

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147. “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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148. “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.”

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149. “And cranking Sufjan Stevens at top volume doesn’t solve anything, which is probably why people don’t crank Sufjan Stevens.”

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150. “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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