Top 400 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “They get so curious. It’s like they have this idea of me, and whenever I step outside of that, it blows their minds. There’s something so embarrassing about that in a way I can’t even describe.”

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352. “My heart is beating wild, which wasn’t the case when we first met. It should’ve been love at first sight like all the great stories, but I wasn’t ready yet. And that’s okay. We still got somewhere great. The worst story would’ve been never finding each other again, or never meeting in the first place.”

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353. “Onstage, it’s one girl after another. All in short dresses. All singing songs by Adele.”

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354. “If there’s one thing I hate, it’s apologies. I don’t like getting them. I really don’t like making them.”

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355. “A lot of the time, I can’t believe that was me.”

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

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357. “Oranges don’t have nipples,” says Sophie.”

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358. “How do I know it’s not a fluke? What if I only ever fall for one girl?” “Then you’re bi.” She pats my arm. “What if I’m talking myself into it?” “Not a thing – ” “Okay, but what if the girl I like is kind of – I don’t know – boyish?” “Is she a boy?” Edith asks. “No.” “Sounds pretty bi.”

— Becky Albertalli

359. “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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360. “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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361. “Sure. Unless you like nerdy gay wonderland better.”

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362. “I really like your room,′ Arthur says. ‘This entire apartment. I hope this doesn’t come off as wrong, but I really love it because it feels more like home than my own house does. Everything here feels like it matters. If something broke or got lost, you would notice. So many things in my house feel so replaceable.”

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

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364. “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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365. “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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366. “I want you to let things be imperfect.”

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

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368. “I honestly think there are two kinds of quiet people. There’s the kind like me, who are secretly full of storms and spinning gears. And then there’s the kind like Olivia, who is the actual personification of an ocean on a sunny day.”

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

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370. “Met een verlegen grijns haal ik mijn schouders op. Zulke momenten hebben iets magisch: door een flinterdun draadje verbonden zijn met een vreemde. Dit soort dingen maken het universum opeens een stuk kleiner. Dat is zo mooi.”

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

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372. “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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373. “I keep my hand locked with Maya’s, feeling dizzy with joy. Like I’m threaded with something ancient, something larger than life. I feel so Jewish. I don’t think anything’s made me feel this wholly, utterly Jewish since Fifi. But this is the opposite of Fifi. The precise polar opposite.”

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

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375. “I just need more time with me, I think. To really believe in my worth without anyone’s help.”

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376. “Wonder Woman and a gay dementor. It doesn’t bode well for the survival of the species.”

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377. “It makes me cringe to admit this, but I want the whole prom thing. The dress, the limo, all of it. It actually hurts, imagining prom happening without me. Me, alone in my pajamas, spending the whole night trolling Instagram and Snapchat. Watching everything unfold virtually. Seeing once and for all how little I’m missed.”

— Becky Albertalli

378. “You like it?” I almost sputter. Abby likes Harry Potter. That’s like saying Mr. Rogers was nice. Reece King is decent-looking. You can’t just like Harry Potter. You have to be balls-out obsessed with it.”

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379. “If it is a glance about me, I will die. We are amused by the sad chubby girl who is clearly enchanted by our hipster beauty.”

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380. “Do I want to love him enough that leaving him would wreck me? Yeah.”

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381. “I don’t even know how to respond to that. Like, I’m in an actual band, Wells. I’m not saying we’re the Beatles, but we’re not exactly honking our way through “Hot Cross Buns” in the school auditorium.”

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382. “And we kiss,” Matt says softly. Suddenly his lips are on mine.”

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383. “Poop is funny, right?”

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384. “Ya me he hartado de tener miedo. Me he hartado de vivir en un mundo en el que no puedo ser lo que soy.”

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385. “It’s so easy to imagine how we’ll retell this moment. Our first kiss. The lights went out. We held hands. Used our phones. Even as it’s happening, it’s like it already happened. That same preemptive nostalgia feeling. Like it’s a story we’ll tell in some not-so-distant future.”

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386. “I feel antsy and strange – like I’m bothered by something, but I can’t remember what. It’s like a tiny pinprick in the back of my mind.”

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387. “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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388. “So, maybe I should let my heart break, just to prove that my heart can take it.”

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

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

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392. “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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393. “I want to know the real world better. Not just the ones I make up or the ones I play with on Sims. But right now I just feel lonely and unwanted in the real world.”

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394. “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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395. “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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396. “There’s nothing quite like the futility of being seventeen in an election year.”

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

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398. “What if we haven’t seen the best us yet?”

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399. “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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400. “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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