Top 450 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “That girl is a suburban dad’s midlife crisis in a high school senior’s body.”

— Becky Albertalli

152. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

155. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

156. “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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157. “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

158. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

159. “Fall air always smells like possibility.”

— Becky Albertalli

160. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

165. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

167. “But I’m smart enough to knock on his bedroom door ever since a few months ago when I walked in and he was really going at it with himself.”

— Becky Albertalli

168. “I’m glad I was cute and grammatical. I think you’re cute and grammatical, too.”

— Becky Albertalli

169. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

170. “Then he smiles and I smile. And then I blush and he lowers his eyes, and it’s like this entire pantomime of nervous gestures.”

— Becky Albertalli

171. “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

172. “Of course, I sleep terribly. I’m up for hours, staring at the ceiling. I keep remembering little moments from tonight. It’s like my brain won’t stop spinning.”

— Becky Albertalli

173. “But I have this feeling, suddenly, that I’m on a too-fast treadmill – like things are moving so quickly, I might slide off the back end.”

— Becky Albertalli

174. “Sometimes I get the vibe he wants me to read his mind. Like he’s sitting there, trying to pour his thoughts directly into my brain, so he won’t have to say them out loud.”

— Becky Albertalli

175. “What if we were out and happy and as famously in love as every other obnoxious Creekwood couple?”

— Becky Albertalli

176. “I was basically born knowing how to casually stalk people on social media.”

— Becky Albertalli

177. “I think self-consciousness is in my bones.”

— Becky Albertalli

178. “Nice polka dots,” I say. He smiles. “Nice Labradors.” I mean, he’s cute, so I’ll let it slide, but the dogs on my pants are clearly golden retrievers.”

— Becky Albertalli

179. “I laugh. He looks so cute when he’s embarrassed.”

— Becky Albertalli

180. “I dare you to kiss me,” she says.”

— Becky Albertalli

181. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

182. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

183. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

184. “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

185. “Awkwardness should be a requirement.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

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187. “Humans are complex.′ Dylan nods sagely. ‘What do you know about him?”

— Becky Albertalli

188. “I don’t even dislike Abby. It’s just that my brain doesn’t work right around her.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

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192. “I never judge someone for not knowing a band. I only judge the ones who try to fake it.”

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193. “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

194. “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

195. “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.”

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196. “I always thought love was about the showstopper moments. No dialogue, no filler. But if the quiet parts are filler, maybe filler’s underrated.”

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197. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

198. “My head’s a shaken snow globe, glitter suspended in liquid.”

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199. “It’s like – you have this baby, and eventually, he starts doing stuff. And I used to be able to see every tiny change, and it was so fascinating.” She smiles sadly. “And now I’m missing stuff. The little things. And it’s hard to let go of that.”

— Becky Albertalli

200. “Happiness is tricky when it comes to the person who used to make you happy.”

— Becky Albertalli