Top 400 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “If a piece of trash never makes it into a trash can, can you even call it trash?”

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202. “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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203. “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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204. “Two girls on their stomachs, peering at a cell phone. All soft lines and curves and overlapping limbs. I colored us in with pencils – the brown of Abby’s skin, the pink of my cheeks, the dark red of my hair. I drew like I was in a trance. It felt like I’d pinned my heart to the page.”

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205. “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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206. “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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207. “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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208. “I think self-consciousness is in my bones.”

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

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

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

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

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214. “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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215. “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.”

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216. “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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217. “Everything about him is worth noticing.”

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

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220. “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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221. “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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222. “What if we were out and happy and as famously in love as every other obnoxious Creekwood couple?”

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

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224. “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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225. “I guess that’s any relationship. You start with nothing and maybe end with everything.”

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226. “Puberty is merciless.”

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

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228. “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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229. “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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230. “When has anyone in the history of earth ever made a meaningful connection while mingling? It’s like, hey, let’s have only the worst parts of a conversation – the approach, the small talk, the trying-to-figure-out-when-and-how-to-disengage part. It’s not that I dislike being around people. I just wish we could skip to the sitting-in-comfortable-silence part, or the inside-jokes part, or even the we-both-love-The-Office-so-let’s-overanalyze-it part.”

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231. “It’s weird how much you have to hold back when you’re secretly in love with someone. But then again, the whole point of love is getting close enough that you no longer have to hold back all the... gross parts. I’m pretty sure at some point love makes room for the gross parts.”

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232. “When the school day ends and nothing extraordinary has happened, it’s a tiny heartbreak. It’s like eleven o’clock on the night of your birthday, when you realize no one’s throwing you a surprise party after all.”

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233. “She smelled like vanilla, and her eyelashes were like thick black parentheses. That was it. My brain only had room for those two facts.”

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234. “It’s the kind of moment that makes my stomach twist. I can’t stand watching people get embarrassed, even strangers. Even fictional strangers. I honestly can’t watch certain TV shows. I get this visceral secondhand shame reaction. It’s like my brain can’t tell where someone else’s humiliation ends and mine begins.”

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235. “It’s your life. You’re always the protagonist.”

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

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237. “Mr. Spier, memorizing the Hamilton soundtrack is not going to save you on the AP Euro exam.”

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238. “It was unicorns vomiting sunbeams.”

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239. “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.”

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

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241. “But I have to channel my inner New Yorker – cool and nonchalant.”

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

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243. “I listen, and it’s Taylor explaining to Martin that she wasn’t necessarily trying to get a gap between her thighs, but it’s her metabolism, and she didn’t even realize that some girls try to get the gap on purpose. Martin nods and scratches his head and looks bored. “She can’t help her metabolism, Simon,” Abby says. “Apparently not,” Taylor may be an undercover, bully-fighting ninja, but she’s still kind of awful.”

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

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245. “I honestly think he was into me. That smile. It wasn’t a solidarity smile. It was a smile like a door opening. But that door is now slammed shut, locked, and dead-bolted.”

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246. “I don’t get how people walk through life with all their windows wide open.”

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247. “I think messages from boys are like Santa Claus or Buzz Lightyear. They won’t happen if you’re watching them.”

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248. “And at least a dozen straight kids make a point of telling me that they support me. One girl even confirms that Jesus still loves me.”

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249. “Ex-sisters. Which sounds exactly like existers. And I guess it fits, because that’s exactly how things fall apart. That’s all it takes. Just the fact you’re two different people. Just the fact that you exist outside each other. I get this ache in my chest when I think about it. I try to shake the feeling away.”

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250. “He pulls me closer and kisses me softly on the forehead, like a butterfly landing. I might actually melt.”

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