Top 450 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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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252. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

253. “And cranking Sufjan Stevens at top volume doesn’t solve anything, which is probably why people don’t crank Sufjan Stevens.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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261. “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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262. “I feel like I’m supposed to make some comment to underscore the ridiculousness of it all, but honestly? It’s sort of nice not to have to be cynical for a change. I guess it feels like I’m a part of something.”

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

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265. “And you notice things and listen to things, but not in a nosy way. In a real way.”

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266. “Because it sucks that there wasn’t one. I just wasn’t feeling it. At least not as much as I should be? Like, I’m sad about it, but it doesn’t wreck me, and I really feel like it should wreck me.”

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267. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

268. “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.”

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269. “It’s like when your scene partner’s supposed to cut you off and overlap your line, but they don’t. That same quiet beat of panic and awkwardness.”

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270. “The silence is a little painful. It’s funny, because you always think the hard part is meeting someone for the first time. It’s not. It’s the second time, because you’ve already used up all the obvious topics of conversation. And even if you haven’t, it’s strange and heavy-handed to introduce random conversational topics at this stage in the game.”

— Becky Albertalli

271. “I don’t know if we’re a love story or a story about love. But I know whatever we are that it’s great because we kept jumping through the hoops in the first place.”

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272. “All history should be taught through rap by Lin-Manuel Miranda.”

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273. “Every breath she breathes feels like a love letter.”

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274. “She hugs me, and it’s like hugging a flower. It’s like that with skinny people. I’m always terrified I’ll crush them.”

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275. “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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276. “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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277. “But I don’t let him finish. I don’t let him say another word. I lean forward and kiss him. He startles, and then he wraps his arms around me and kisses me back. His lips are gentle and warm. He is mint and lemons.”

— Becky Albertalli

278. “But it didn’t feel like nothing. It felt like a love letter. It felt like a question.”

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

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280. “It was unicorns vomiting sunbeams.”

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281. “And maybe this is the do-over I needed all along.”

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282. “Once, Andy looked at Noah, apropos of nothing, and asked, “Are straight boys okay? Do they need help?” The age-old question.”

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283. “You’re obviously looking for someone. Your eyes are everywhere.”

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284. “Flirty touches and first kisses and hearts that turn out to be wrong.”

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285. “It’s that New York feeling, like they talk about in musicals – that wide-open, top-volume, Technicolor joy.”

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286. “If you ever had something you wanted to tell me, I could make space for that, too.”

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287. “Sure. Unless you like nerdy gay wonderland better.”

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

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289. “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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290. “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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291. “Home isn’t about how big the space is, but how we fill it.”

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

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293. “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.”

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

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295. “Queerness isn’t some distant hypothetical concept to me. It’s right there. It always has been.”

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

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297. “I was almost tempted to ask my parents to fry some chicken and mash some potatoes and grill some corn on the cob, but that would’ve only stopped Arthur from discovering more about me. The little things that form the bigger picture.”

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298. “Once you come out, you can’t really go back in. It’s a little bit terrifying, isn’t it?”

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299. “Taylor is the enemy of everything awesome.”

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300. “For one thing, Abby’s embarrassingly hetero. She’s the type who’d watch all of Sailor Moon and come away thinking Haruka and Michiru were just good friends. She probably thinks Troye Sivan’s songs are about girls.”

— Becky Albertalli