Top 400 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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.”

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

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203. “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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204. “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

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

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206. “I want to know the real world better. Not just the ones I make up or the ones I play with on Sims. But right now I just feel lonely and unwanted in the real world.”

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

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208. “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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209. “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.”

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

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211. “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

212. “But the curtains start to open. And I keep moving forward.”

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213. “That was the summer I taught myself how to do laundry. There are some socks that shouldn’t be washed by your mom.”

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214. “Middle school is like this endless horror show. Well, maybe not endless, because it ended, but it really burns into your psyche. I don’t care who you are.”

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215. “My best friend, Ben. Maybe that’s what the universe wanted. Maybe that’s us.”

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216. “Hudson me ha preguntado por mi final perfecto. Pero, en vez de eso, voy a centrarme en el comienzo. En volver a repetir el comienzo, para ser precisos.”

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217. “It feels like we’re the last survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Wonder Woman and a gay dementor. It doesn’t bode well for the survival of the species.”

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218. “I’m basically your resident fat Slytherin Rory Gilmore.”

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

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220. “Oy. I’m getting a Lyft.”

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

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223. “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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224. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

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226. “The closest thing I’ve ever had to a journal is probably you.”

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227. “And in that moment – for a split second – I feel it. How short that is. How soon everything changes. It’s strange, because good-byes are a thing I can understand intellectually, but they almost never feel real. Which makes it hard to brace for impact. I don’t know how to miss people when they’re standing right in front of me.”

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228. “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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229. “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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230. “Then she shifted slightly under her blankets, and her whole body pressed against mine. My right side to her left. And I forgot how to speak.”

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231. “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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232. “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

233. “Where the heck is Nick?” she asks. Just hearing Abby say Nick’s name makes Leah suck in her lips. “Feeling up a guitar somewhere?” I suggest. “Yeah,” says Leah. “Most awkward way ever to get a splinter.”

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

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235. “I will never understand why adults find the passing of time to be so unexpected. Time is literally what life is made of. But it’s like a ritual; each time my mom chats with a friend or family member she hasn’t seen in a while, they spend half the time talking about how fast time goes, and the other half promising to see each other soon, which they almost never do.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

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237. “I feel like the two negative ends of a magnet. Like there are parts of me that can’t come together.”

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

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239. “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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240. “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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241. “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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242. “I guess that’s any relationship. You start with nothing and maybe end with everything.”

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243. “What if we rewrite everything we expect form happy endings?”

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

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

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246. “Things change slowly. Way too slowly, to be honest. But what’s the alternative? Not like we can sit back and do nothing. We have to fight for change however we can.”

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

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248. “Like every step I take leaves an imprint.”

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

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250. “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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