Top 400 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

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

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153. “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.”

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154. “Nothing is worse than the secret humiliation of being insulted by proxy.”

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155. “I can’t even help it. There’s just this thread of anticipation that I can’t seem to quell. So when the school day ends and nothing extraordinary has happened, it’s a tiny heartbreak. It’s like eleven o’clock on the night of your birthday, when you realize no one’s throwing you a surprise party after all.”

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156. “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.”

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157. “Okay. I have a crush. But it’s not like having a crush on some random musician or actor or Harry freaking Potter. This is the real deal. It has to be. It’s almost debilitating.”

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158. “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.”

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159. “Do you ever have those random nights where your brain won’t shut off, even though your body feels like five hundred pounds off exhausted?”

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

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161. “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.”

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

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164. “Maybe some songs are just unruinable.”

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165. “They should make a word for the mix of pride and envy you get when someone you love is really good at a thing. It’s like you want them to win so badly it feels personal. But also the thought of them winning makes you almost sick with longing.”

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

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168. “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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169. “That’s where I found Blue’s post. It just kind of spoke to me. And I don’t even think it was just the gay thing. I don’t know. It was seriously like five lines, but it was grammatically correct and strangely poetic, and just completely different from anything I’ve ever read before.”

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170. “White shouldn’t be the default any more than straight should be the default. There shouldn’t even be a default.”

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171. “I’m on the toilet at the 9:30 Club and I’m wondering how mermaids pee.”

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

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173. “Certain nights have this kind of electricity. Certain nights carry you to a different place from where you started.”

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174. “Anyway, thanks for saving my butt. Literally.” She shakes her head. “Okay, not my butt.” I giggle. “It’s okay.” “Thanks for saving my labia.”

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175. “Netflix means not having to suck in your stomach or think of anything smart or adorable to say. It means a whole night of not wondering what people think about you. No alcohol, and no flirtation, and no confusion, and every organ calm and settled.”

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176. “When we say we want to freeze time, what we mean is that we want to control our memories. We want to choose which moments we’ll keep forever. We want to guarantee the best ones won’t slip away from us somehow. So when something beautiful happens, there’s this impulse to press pause and save the game. We want to make sure we can find our way back to that moment.”

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177. “There’s this palpable energy in the air. It’s the kind of night where strangers start hugging and everyone’s drunk and loud and happy just to be in the middle of all of this. I bet people will remember today, even when they’re old. I bet I will, too.”

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178. “Maybe I’d have spent a little less time watching the action from the back of the auditorium. Maybe I’d have spent more time making out in the back of the auditorium.”

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179. “It’s the first time I’ve said those words out loud. I pause with my hands on the steering wheel, waiting to feel something extraordinary. The light turns green.”

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180. “I love his smile. I love his voice. I love his face. I love that he lives in my phone, even now. I love being his friend. His best friend.”

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181. “Maybe one day we’ll talk about it. Maybe I’ll find the words, and she’ll find a way to hear them. Then we’ll cry and hug and years will pass, and we’ll move past it. It’ll be just a little bump in our backstory. Or maybe for us, it ends here. Maybe Gretchen’s my backstory.”

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182. “I fall a little bit in love with everyone.”

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183. “I swear, people can’t wrap their minds around the concept of a fat girl who doesn’t diet. Is it that hard to believe I might actually like my body?”

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184. “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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185. “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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186. “I mean, that’s my family. Everything’s a freaking secret, because everything’s a big deal. Everything is like coming out” -Simon.”

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187. “Dylan checks his phone, like we’re not even talking, which is my least favorite thing about humans.”

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188. “Teachers think they get to dictate what you think about. It’s not enough if you just sit there quietly and let them teach. It’s like they think they have a right to control your mind.”

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

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190. “I feel like I’m supposed to make some comment to underscore the ridiculousness of it all, but honestly? It’s sort of nice not to have to be cynical for a change. I guess it feels like I’m a part of something.”

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191. “There’s just something about this kind of moment – this tiny thread connecting me to a total stranger. It’s the kind of thing that makes the universe feel smaller.”

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192. “Babies here are forced to declare their allegiance to vegetables before.”

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193. “Don’t do anything Rose and Jack wouldn’t do in a steamy vintage car.”

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194. “Drunk people are basically zombies. Once they’re infected, they want to take you down with them. Seriously, even my friends are like that, and we’re supposed to be nerds.”

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195. “Maybe the universe is just playing the long game. Like everything that’s ever gone wrong was so it could be right later.”

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196. “You have to understand that no one has mastered the art of deadpan delivery like Leah.”

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197. “I look around at all the other people around us, couples or family or friends or strangers, and I wonder how many of their days are going south because of nonsense coming out of someone’s mouth.”

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198. “No Bon Jovi. No Journey.”

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199. “I feel strangely offbeat.”

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200. “And somehow, even though we’re at a fuckball game, I feel completely at home. Which is a feeling I only really ever get when I’m with Anderson. It’s one of those things I can’t say out loud, because people will just think I’m in love with him or something. But it’s not a romantic feeling at all.”

— Becky Albertalli