Top 400 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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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252. “But I’m smart enough to knock on his bedroom door ever since a few months ago when I walked in and he was really going at it with himself.”

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

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255. “Wow, is that Katniss making out with Yoda?”

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256. “Why would I want to watch other people kissing,” I say, “when I could be kissing you?”

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257. “I have a sneaking suspicion that you’re not 100% committed to your Oreo diet.”

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258. “I feel stronger when I look cute.”

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259. “I’m not going to pretend I know how this ends, and I don’t have a freaking clue if it’s possible to fall in love over email. But I would really like to meet you, Blue. I want to try this. And I can’t imagine a scenario where I don’t want to kiss your face off as soon as I see you.”

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260. “That girl is a suburban dad’s midlife crisis in a high school senior’s body.”

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261. “I never judge someone for not knowing a band. I only judge the ones who try to fake it.”

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262. “I wish I knew why some people keep holding hands and why some people stop.”

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263. “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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264. “I like disasters.”

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265. “Okay, no. No no no. Craigslist is not a father-son bonding activity.”

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266. “Lowkey bi, a little bit bi. Just be bi. Like, come on.” “What? No.” She draws herself up. “You don’t get to decide my label.” “It’s not a real label!”

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267. “Should I be looking in the halls for guys in yarmulkes? Yes, I looked up how to spell that. And your people are very creative, phonetically speaking.”

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268. “I wish I were the kind of person who knows how to fill a silence.”

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269. “You get to want whatever you want. And you know what? Love is worth wanting.”

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270. “And the same applies to Ryan’s room with girls, or at least it would if Ryan ever had girls over.”

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271. “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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272. “And suddenly, her lips are on mine, and my hands are on her waist, and I’m kissing her back so fiercely, I forget how to breathe. I feel like a campfire, like a could burn for days. Because the thing about Abby is that she kisses like she dances. Like she’s totally there. Like she’s handing you her heart.”

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

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274. “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.”

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275. “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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276. “And Leah’s weird about hugs sometimes, but today she buries her face in my shoulder and murmurs something into the fabric of my robes.”

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277. “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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278. “Like, yes, Olivia is kind of curvy, and Mina didn’t say it like an insult. I know it’s not an insult. But I just hate when people talk about bodies.”

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

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280. “Hi,” he says, quickly and softly. Like the word belongs to us.”

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

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282. “We drive and drive, and it’s like I’m teetering on the edge of something. Now it’s been ten minutes since we’ve spoken. The music feels too loud and too soft all at once, and underneath its bass line, I can hear Abby breathing.”

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283. “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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284. “But the work itself is the point. You keep doing it, because otherwise, how do you keep from feeling helpless? It’s like those sharks that keep swimming or they die,” I say. “It’s about the act of resisting. Waking up every day and deciding not to give up.”

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

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

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287. “He kisses like Elliott Smith sings.”

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288. “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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289. “My dad invented the concept of Simon logic, and I can’t seem to outgrow it. It means wishful thinking supported by flimsy evidence.”

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290. “I peer around the room – which is so packed with earnest-looking college kids, you’d think this was an Apple Store.”

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291. “If someone says I’m sad, or asks me what’s wrong, or tells me not to cry, it’s like my body hears: NOW CRY. Like a command, even if I’m not actually sad.”

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292. “And we’re kissing like it’s breathing.”

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293. “Maybe my company is even better than making out – which is pretty much my goal as a human being, honestly.”

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294. “He nods, but I’m not sure he’s actually heard me. I probably only need one guess to know what’s thinking: we were looking for each other. He went to greater lengths, but hearing I wanted to find him too? Well, we all love having our feelings reciprocated.”

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295. “There’s this feeling I get when I watch people kiss. I become a different form of matter. Like they’re water, and I’m an ice cube. Like I’m the most alone person in the entire world.”

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

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298. “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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299. “And buddy-reading books with him.”

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300. “Of course, I have a strict policy of not falling for straight guys. At least, not confirmed straight guys.”

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