Top 400 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “What if we rewrite everything we expect form happy endings?”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

203. “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

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

— Becky Albertalli

205. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

206. “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

207. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

208. “Sometimes I feel like New Yorkers do New York wrong. Where are the people swinging from subway poles and dancing on fire escapes and kissing in Times Square? The post office flash mob proposal was a start, but when’s the next big number? I pictured New York like West Side Story plus In the Heights plus Avenue Q – but really, it’s just construction and traffic and iPhones and humidity.”

— Becky Albertalli

209. “It’s strange how you can sometimes still feel self-conscious around people you’ve known your whole life.”

— Becky Albertalli

210. “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

211. “All my ships, straight-up kissing: Inej and Nina, Percabeth, a few original characters.”

— Becky Albertalli

212. “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

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

— Becky Albertalli

214. “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

215. “That girl is a suburban dad’s midlife crisis in a high school senior’s body.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

221. “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

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

— Becky Albertalli

223. “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

224. “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

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

— Becky Albertalli

226. “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

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

— Becky Albertalli

228. “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

229. “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

230. “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

231. “Awkwardness should be a requirement.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

234. “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

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

— Becky Albertalli

236. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

238. “There shouldn’t even be a default.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli

240. “I mean, that’s how it’s going to be. It’s that easy for Olivia. Maybe this is what life is like for most girls.”

— Becky Albertalli

241. “Why is straight the default?”

— Becky Albertalli

242. “I’m pretty sure this is the kind of crush you can die from.”

— Becky Albertalli

243. “Like the way you can memorize someone’s gestures but never know their thoughts.”

— Becky Albertalli

244. “Fun exists wherever you make it.”

— Becky Albertalli

245. “Sometimes I think texting is the single worst technological advancement in history. Because yeah, it’s convenient. But in moments like this, it’s like someone’s poking you repeatedly, going hey hey hey.”

— Becky Albertalli

246. “It’s strangely reassuring, seeing the clutter. I always expect everyone else’s lives to be immaculate.”

— Becky Albertalli

247. “I’m the tallest person onstage during those scenes. Which doesn’t happen all that often, to be honest.”

— Becky Albertalli

248. “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

249. “And she’s so casually convinced that I’m brave, I almost believe it.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Becky Albertalli