Top 400 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “It feels bigger than I want it to be. Do I really have to announce this? Can’t I just feel something and live inside it while it’s happening and not analyze it to death?”

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302. “People like me should come with a mute button.”

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303. “It’s weird, because Blue’s emails used to be this extra thing that was separate from my actual life. But now I think maybe the emails are my life. Everything else sort of feels like I’m slogging through a dream.”

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304. “I shrug. ‘I’m just going to live in the moment. That’s the only way to see where we end up.”

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305. “I think you’re cute and grammatical, too.”

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

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

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309. “Dinner is almost ready, and I feel like the world’s most unnecessary tour guide as I show them around the living room. But when I see Arthur studying every picture hanging from the wall, I remember that home isn’t about how big the space is but how we fill it.”

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310. “You came.” His voice breaks. “Of course.”

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311. “Maybe he followed us?” I slide my feet forward on the tiles. “Oh my God. He fell in love with us and followed us home from camp.” “WAIT –.”

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312. “More than like it. I crave it. Because there’s nausea and fog, but there’s also this: an unshakable feeling that something wonderful is about to happen. That’s the part I can’t explain. No matter how unlikely, I always have a secret shred of hope. And as feelings go, that’s a pretty addictive one.”

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

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314. “My mom was the one who got obsessed with the idea that I had a girlfriend even though I had never had one before. I don’t know why that came as such a freaking surprise.”

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315. “But when I see Arthur studying every picture hanging from the wall, I remember that home isn’t about how big the space is but how we fill it. Above.”

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316. “But the gaslighting was awful – how she used our words against us and smiled like she does this every day for sport.”

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317. “Maya smiles. “Want to slowmance?” I just stare at her, trying to catch my breath. “Of course.”

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318. “I just look at her. I can’t believe I’m allowed to do this. I can just stare at her face without it being creepy. I want to memorize every single inch of this Abby – the shine of her cheekbones and the brightness of her eyes. There are tears in her lashes, and her lips are sort of puffy. I don’t know how this girl can go from laughing to crying to kissing and back, and still come out of it looking like an actual moonbeam.”

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319. “It feels like we’re the last survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Wonder Woman and a gay dementor. It doesn’t bode well for the survival of the species.”

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

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

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322. “I dare you to kiss me,” she says.”

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323. “I mean, that’s how it’s going to be. It’s that easy for Olivia. Maybe this is what life is like for most girls.”

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324. “Why is straight the default?”

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325. “I get locked into a cycle of not speaking. It’s like every time I think of something awesome to say, I rehearse it in my head so many times, I forget whether I’ve said it out loud yet. And I think it goes without saying that awesome one-liners are decidedly less awesome when you repeat them by accident. Better not to risk it.”

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326. “I’m pretty sure this is the kind of crush you can die from.”

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327. “Oy. I’m getting a Lyft.”

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

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329. “Fun exists wherever you make it.”

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330. “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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331. “It’s strangely reassuring, seeing the clutter. I always expect everyone else’s lives to be immaculate.”

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

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

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334. “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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335. “And she’s so casually convinced that I’m brave, I almost believe it.”

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

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337. “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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338. “People are shameless when it comes to cake. It’s a beautiful thing to see.”

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339. “I don’t feel like doing anything. I don’t even know what I need right now. I just want to feel normal.”

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340. “My limbs feel really heavy. I kind of want to go home and crawl into bed with my iPod. But the curtains start to open. And I keep moving forward.”

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341. “That has to be the best part of being in love – the feeling of having a home in someone else’s brain.”

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342. “I walk in just as the bell is ringing, and I’m in a serious daze. It’s lucky that my hands seem to know my locker combination, because my brain has checked out. People talk to me, and I nod along, but absolutely nothing penetrates.”

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343. “I spend all of Sunday in my room switching between the Smiths and Kid Cudi at top volume, and I don’t even care if that’s too random for my parents.”

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

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345. “I’ve always thought that was such an intimate thing to do: touching the screen of another person’s phone.”

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346. “It’s that girlfriend feeling again, not that I’ve ever been anyone’s girlfriend. But I imagine it feels like this. Like I’m this tiny precious wanted thing. I can’t decide if I feel gross about that, or if I only think I should feel gross about it.”

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347. “It’s weird how it’s easier to trust Arthur than it is to trust people I’ve known way longer. Like Dylan and Hudson and Harriett. My parents. It’s not even that it’s kind of low-risk because I’m not sure Arthur will even be in my life – it’s more that I’m counting on knowing him for a long time and I want him to know the real me as soon as possible.”

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348. “Also, you’re wearing a shirt,” says Nick. “Noooo. No. It’s not to wear,” I say. “Then what’s it for?” asks Abby. “I can’t wear it,” I explain. “That would be weird. I have to have it under my pillow.” “Because that’s not weird,” says Nick.”

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349. “We’re given a hero’s welcome by the dogs as soon as we walk through the door. Charles and Camilla, pupper and doggo, respectively.”

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350. “I blush and swoon and am essentially the heroine of a romance novel. Except with 100 percent less kissing.”

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