Top 400 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “It’s just a lot of me. Way too much of me.”

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352. “You are trouble, Suso.”

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353. “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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354. “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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355. “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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356. “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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357. “Their costumes are surprisingly clever – one of them is wearing a black silk nightgown with a picture of Freud’s face taped to the front. A Freudian slip. Nick.”

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358. “Someone who seemed to like me better before he knew who I was.”

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359. “And seriously, I can’t even. Because Cal’s bangs. Cal’s eyes.”

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360. “Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn’t be this big awkward thing whether you’re straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I’m just saying.”

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361. “But I know what it’s like to be not good enough, in some bone-deep fundamental way.”

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362. “I feel like a campfire, like I could burn for days.”

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363. “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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364. “And at least a dozen straight kids make a point of telling me that they support me. One girl even confirms that Jesus still loves me.”

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365. “He pulls me closer and kisses me softly on the forehead, like a butterfly landing. I might actually melt.”

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366. “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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367. “But I have to channel my inner New Yorker – cool and nonchalant.”

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368. “I listen, and it’s Taylor explaining to Martin that she wasn’t necessarily trying to get a gap between her thighs, but it’s her metabolism, and she didn’t even realize that some girls try to get the gap on purpose. Martin nods and scratches his head and looks bored. “She can’t help her metabolism, Simon,” Abby says. “Apparently not,” Taylor may be an undercover, bully-fighting ninja, but she’s still kind of awful.”

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369. “I honestly think he was into me. That smile. It wasn’t a solidarity smile. It was a smile like a door opening. But that door is now slammed shut, locked, and dead-bolted.”

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370. “I don’t get how people walk through life with all their windows wide open.”

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371. “I have that same weird prickle I had stepping out of that meeting. Like everything I say or think or feel is an overreaction.”

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372. “Waking up every day and deciding not to give up.”

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373. “She’s also the kind of person who pretends to ask a question just to show off what she already knows.”

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374. “It’s hard to feel casual about a text that’s gone through three rounds of revisions. I might as well write the final version out in calligraphy. Or engrave it. Tattoo it on my butt cheek.”

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375. “I want you to let things be imperfect.”

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376. “I lie on top of my bed without getting in it. I hate messing up the sheets before I absolutely have to. I know this is weird, but I make my bed every single day, even though the rest of my room is a hellscape of paper and laundry and books and clutter. Sometimes I feel like my bed is a lifeboat.”

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377. “Everything about him is worth noticing.”

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378. “I mean, of course she’s freaked out. How could she not be? I basically just proposed marriage and offered to father her children.”

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379. “I don’t get why that’s so bad. Why shouldn’t I want to be with someone who makes me feel worthy? Someone who wants to be with me for the long run?”

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380. “And then he grins back, and I’m giddy and breathless and kind of unraveled. And I didn’t sleep at all last night. Not even for a second. I’ve basically been picturing this moment for ten hours, and now that it’s here, I don’t have a clue what I’m supposed to say. Probably something awesome and witty and not school-related. Probably not: “Did you finish the chapter?”

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381. “We are out and we are alive, and everyone in the universe is out here right now.”

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382. “It’s just hard to believe in the concept of Molly-With-a-Boyfriend.”

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383. “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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384. “Fun exists wherever you make it.”

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

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

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387. “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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388. “Why is straight the default?”

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

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390. “In the Mario Bros. games there’s the big bad – Bowser, who is this evil mega-turtle,” Jamie finally says. “And they also have these Koopa Troopas – little turtles that are weirdly cute but completely evil. Bowser became president in 2016. But I guess I didn’t really think about how it’s not just about him – there’s hundreds of Koopa Troopas everywhere to watch out for too.”

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391. “Oh my God, I’m just making a point. We like who we like. Who cares if someone else doesn’t get it? That’s a good thing. That’s less competition.”

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392. “Friendship is like that. I guess it’s not always about common ground.”

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393. “She has the kind of mouth that always rests in a faint smile, and she smells a little like French toast.”

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

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396. “And buddy-reading books with him.”

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397. “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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398. “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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399. “Maybe my company is even better than making out – which is pretty much my goal as a human being, honestly.”

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400. “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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