Top 400 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Gay people have to love Oreos now,” explains Anderson.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

154. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

156. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

157. “I don’t want to be that girl. I want to be the other kind of girl. The Olivia kind. Totally cool with being single. Not even interested in a relationship right now.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

159. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

161. “If someone says I’m sad, or asks me what’s wrong, or tells me not to cry, it’s like my body hears: NOW CRY. Like a command, even if I’m not actually sad.”

— Becky Albertalli

162. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

163. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

164. “Awkwardness should be a requirement.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

167. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

168. “Like I could ever – in a million years – make it through this moment without smiling.”

— Becky Albertalli

169. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

171. “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

172. “Oy. I’m getting a Lyft.”

— Becky Albertalli

173. “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?”

— Becky Albertalli

174. “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

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

— Becky Albertalli

176. “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?”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

179. “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

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

— Becky Albertalli

181. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

182. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

183. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

184. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

185. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

186. “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

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

189. “Emotional blue balls. That’s what it feel like. It’s being handed everything you’ve ever longed for, only for it to slip through your fingers. And there’s no way to fix it. Nothing you can do but slink toward the kitchen counter in a full-body mope.”

— Becky Albertalli

190. “Dark clouds hang heavy and low. It’s comforting when the outside world reflects how you feel on the inside.”

— Becky Albertalli

191. “I guess it’s kind of like how Sophie will go for weeks before reading the last chapter of a book. The longer you put good things off, the longer they’re there waiting for you. And texts from Maya are good things. They are very good things.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

193. “She hugs me, and it’s like hugging a flower. It’s like that with skinny people. I’m always terrified I’ll crush them.”

— Becky Albertalli

194. “What if we haven’t seen the best us yet?”

— Becky Albertalli

195. “The silence is a little painful. It’s funny, because you always think the hard part is meeting someone for the first time. It’s not. It’s the second time, because you’ve already used up all the obvious topics of conversation. And even if you haven’t, it’s strange and heavy-handed to introduce random conversational topics at this stage in the game.”

— Becky Albertalli

196. “All history should be taught through rap by Lin-Manuel Miranda.”

— Becky Albertalli

197. “You sound like my grandma. She always says that there are at least two good people for every bad person in the world.” “I like that a lot.” She smiles. “You’re a real grandma’s boy, aren’t you?” “Is that like a mama’s boy?” “It’s like a mama’s boy on steroids.”

— Becky Albertalli

198. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

199. “Arthur, the universe just got the ball rolling,′ he says. ‘We made us happen.”

— Becky Albertalli

200. “I never really know the protocol for this kind of situation. It’s like when you’re in line at a store, and a grandma starts telling you all about her grandchildren or her arthritis, and you smile and nod along. But then it’s your turn to check out, so you’re just like okay, well, good-bye forever.”

— Becky Albertalli