Top 450 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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?”

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

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

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204. “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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205. “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.”

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206. “I feel strangely offbeat.”

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

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208. “We went above and beyond for you, Simon.”

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

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211. “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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212. “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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213. “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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214. “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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215. “Hush,” I say, and my cheeks burn. Freaking Abby never misses a freaking thing.”

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216. “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.”

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

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

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219. “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.”

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220. “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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221. “An actual date with a boy. This is possibly, definitely the number one best thing that’s ever happened to me. And I have no chill about it. None whatsoever.”

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222. “Because when a tender moment happens between any two people, I turn into an eleven-year-old boy. It is my most consistent talent.”

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223. “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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224. “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.”

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

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227. “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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228. “Oy. I’m getting a Lyft.”

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

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

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

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

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235. “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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236. “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.”

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

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239. “Penso solo che siamo destinati ad incontrare determinate persone. Penso che l’universo ce le metta sul cammino.”

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

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241. “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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242. “It has to be easier for people with penises. Does this person get you hard? Yes? Done.”

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243. “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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244. “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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245. “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.”

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

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248. “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.”

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

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250. “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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