Top 400 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

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253. “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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254. “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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255. “And I never would have remembered spoons, but he did. Of course.”

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256. “But the work itself is the point. You keep doing it, because otherwise, how do you keep from feeling helpless?”

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257. “But when she’s smiling? It’s next-level not heinous.”

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258. “I still see flaws in my work, everywhere I look. It’s exhausting and mortifying and almost unbearable.”

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259. “Certain nights have this kind of electricity. Certain nights carry you to a different place from where you started. I think tonight was one of the special ones – but I can’t pinpoint why.”

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260. “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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261. “And suddenly, I feel like crying, but not in a bad way. More like in the way you feel when someone gives you a perfect present – something you’d been wanting, but thought you couldn’t ask for. It’s that feeling of someone knowing you in all the ways you needed to be known.”

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262. “Stuffing my face with fun-size Kit Kats. Which, for the record, are way less fun than full-size Kit Kats.”

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263. “And it’s the end of the world and the beginning of the world and we’re seventeen. It’s an awesome thing.”

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264. “There’s nothing quite like the futility of being seventeen in an election year.”

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265. “But I’m not talking about the world righting itself. I’m talking about us righting the world.”

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266. “Maybe it would be different if we lived in New York, but I don’t know how to be gay in Georgia.”

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267. “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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268. “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.”

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

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

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271. “It was unicorns vomiting sunbeams.”

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

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

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

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

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277. “Then he smiles and I smile. And then I blush and he lowers his eyes, and it’s like this entire pantomime of nervous gestures.”

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

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

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280. “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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281. “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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282. “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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283. “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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284. “What if we were out and happy and as famously in love as every other obnoxious Creekwood couple?”

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

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

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

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

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290. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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295. “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.”

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296. “Then her hand brushed close to mine, and my organs rearranged themselves.”

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297. “Honestly, the secret to impressing people is this: individual portions, packaged in mason jars. I.”

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298. “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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299. “You sound like my grandma. She always says that there are at least two good people for every bad person in the world.”

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300. “My parents have a way of ruining things like this... It’s like they have this idea of me, and whenever I step outside of that, it blows their minds.”

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