Top 400 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “I don’t even dislike Abby. It’s just that my brain doesn’t work right around her.”

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202. “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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203. “I never imagined I could be bumped out of my own family. I feel knocked down. I feel demoted.”

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204. “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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205. “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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206. “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.”

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

— Becky Albertalli

208. “Who’s ready for that kiss?” Um, apparently Mr. D is. Because now he’s playing that “Kiss Me” song, the one with the line about milky twilight that Anderson swears is about semen.”

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209. “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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210. “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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211. “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.”

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

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214. “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

215. “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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216. “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

217. “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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218. “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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219. “And even though I’m looking in from the outside, I get closer with every step.”

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220. “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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221. “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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222. “It’s that feeling of someone knowing you in all the ways you needed to be known.”

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223. “Maybe this won’t work out and I won’t care about it ending. But I can’t get from A to B without us being A and B first. Live in the moment.”

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224. “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.”

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

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

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227. “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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228. “If a piece of trash never makes it into a trash can, can you even call it trash?”

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229. “And the look on her face when she read the comments, like the idea of people knowing about us was too mortifying to stomach. Yeah. That felt great. Almost as great as when she said it’s not going to happen. Ever. In the most matter-of-fact tone. Like I was supposed to have already understood that. Like it’s obvious. Cool. I guess I’m just delusional.”

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230. “I don’t get why that’s so bad. Why shouldn’t I want to be with someone who makes me feel worthy? Someone who wants to be with me for the long run?”

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231. “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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232. “And then he grins back, and I’m giddy and breathless and kind of unraveled. And I didn’t sleep at all last night. Not even for a second. I’ve basically been picturing this moment for ten hours, and now that it’s here, I don’t have a clue what I’m supposed to say. Probably something awesome and witty and not school-related. Probably not: “Did you finish the chapter?”

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233. “We are out and we are alive, and everyone in the universe is out here right now.”

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234. “It’s just hard to believe in the concept of Molly-With-a-Boyfriend.”

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235. “Home isn’t about how big the space is, but how we fill it.”

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236. “It’s too much. And I don’t want to embrace the suck. I want things to not suck. And I don’t think that’s too much to ask.”

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237. “Sometimes New York feels like a full body corset.”

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238. “I lie on top of my bed without getting in it. I hate messing up the sheets before I absolutely have to. I know this is weird, but I make my bed every single day, even though the rest of my room is a hellscape of paper and laundry and books and clutter. Sometimes I feel like my bed is a lifeboat.”

— Becky Albertalli

239. “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.”

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240. “Everything about him is worth noticing.”

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241. “I guess it was about loneliness. And it’s funny because I don’t really think of myself as lonely. But there was something so familiar about the way Blue described the feeling. It was like he had pulled the ideas from my head.”

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

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243. “I don’t just want to kiss Jamie. I’m in love with him. My body bursts with adrenaline. I need to see him. Right now.”

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244. “I mean, of course she’s freaked out. How could she not be? I basically just proposed marriage and offered to father her children.”

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

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246. “You can’t just like Harry Potter. You have to be balls-out obsessed with it.”

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247. “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.”

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248. “Puberty is merciless.”

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249. “My cheeks are off-the-charts warm. I could grill steaks on them. I could break thermometers and straighten your hair and give you second-degree burns.”

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250. “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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