Top 400 Becky Albertalli Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Two girls on their stomachs, peering at a cell phone. All soft lines and curves and overlapping limbs. I colored us in with pencils – the brown of Abby’s skin, the pink of my cheeks, the dark red of my hair. I drew like I was in a trance. It felt like I’d pinned my heart to the page.”

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352. “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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353. “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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354. “We are out and we are alive, and everyone in the universe is out here right now.”

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

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

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

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359. “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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360. “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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361. “Everything about him is worth noticing.”

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362. “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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363. “But the curtains start to open. And I keep moving forward.”

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364. “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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365. “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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366. “What if we were out and happy and as famously in love as every other obnoxious Creekwood couple?”

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367. “You can’t just like Harry Potter. You have to be balls-out obsessed with it.”

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368. “Puberty is merciless.”

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369. “My cheeks are off-the-charts warm. I could grill steaks on them. I could break thermometers and straighten your hair and give you second-degree burns.”

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370. “I always thought love was about the showstopper moments. No dialogue, no filler. But if the quiet parts are filler, maybe filler’s underrated.”

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371. “When has anyone in the history of earth ever made a meaningful connection while mingling? It’s like, hey, let’s have only the worst parts of a conversation – the approach, the small talk, the trying-to-figure-out-when-and-how-to-disengage part. It’s not that I dislike being around people. I just wish we could skip to the sitting-in-comfortable-silence part, or the inside-jokes part, or even the we-both-love-The-Office-so-let’s-overanalyze-it part.”

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372. “It’s weird how much you have to hold back when you’re secretly in love with someone. But then again, the whole point of love is getting close enough that you no longer have to hold back all the... gross parts. I’m pretty sure at some point love makes room for the gross parts.”

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373. “When the school day ends and nothing extraordinary has happened, it’s a tiny heartbreak. It’s like eleven o’clock on the night of your birthday, when you realize no one’s throwing you a surprise party after all.”

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374. “She smelled like vanilla, and her eyelashes were like thick black parentheses. That was it. My brain only had room for those two facts.”

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375. “It’s the kind of moment that makes my stomach twist. I can’t stand watching people get embarrassed, even strangers. Even fictional strangers. I honestly can’t watch certain TV shows. I get this visceral secondhand shame reaction. It’s like my brain can’t tell where someone else’s humiliation ends and mine begins.”

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376. “My head’s a shaken snow globe, glitter suspended in liquid.”

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

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378. “It was unicorns vomiting sunbeams.”

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

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

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381. “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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382. “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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383. “I don’t get how people walk through life with all their windows wide open.”

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384. “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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385. “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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386. “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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387. “He pulls me closer and kisses me softly on the forehead, like a butterfly landing. I might actually melt.”

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388. “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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389. “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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390. “But it didn’t feel like nothing. It felt like a love letter. It felt like a question.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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398. “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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399. “I like disasters.”

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

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