Top 400 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

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

— Becky Albertalli

154. “Every breath she breathes feels like a love letter.”

— Becky Albertalli

155. “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

156. “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

157. “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

158. “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

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

— Becky Albertalli

160. “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

161. “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

162. “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

163. “There’s just something terrifying about admitting you like someone. In a way, it’s actually easier when there’s no chance of anything happening. But there’s this threshold where things suddenly become possible. And then your cards are on the table. And there you are, wanting, right out in the open.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

166. “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.”

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167. “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

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

— Becky Albertalli

169. “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

170. “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

171. “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

172. “Awkwardness should be a requirement.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

174. “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

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

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179. “And suddenly, her lips are on mine, and my hands are on her waist, and I’m kissing her back so fiercely, I forget how to breathe. I feel like a campfire, like a could burn for days. Because the thing about Abby is that she kisses like she dances. Like she’s totally there. Like she’s handing you her heart.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

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181. “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

182. “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

183. “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

184. “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

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

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186. “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

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

189. “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

190. “I feel strangely offbeat.”

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

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192. “It’s always cool to find out immediately if a cute guy is a gay or not. Trying to solve that mystery yourself isn’t fun and rarely pays off.”

— Becky Albertalli

193. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

194. “Ben shoots me a quick sideways smile, but it’s cool, because who even needs lungs? Why are we all so obsessed with breathing?”

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

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196. “Basically, Abby is human candy corn. She’s fine in small doses – but too much, and you’ll puke from the sweetness.”

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197. “Simon once said that when the stage lights are on, the audience looks like a giant dark blob. But maybe the front row is the exception, because I swear Taylor just spent forty-five minutes gazing directly into my face.”

— Becky Albertalli

198. “In the distance, they begin shutting down the rides and turning off lights. There’s something beautiful and eerie about a darkened, unmoving Ferris wheel.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

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200. “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