Top 50 Sophie Gonzales Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It’s not about being good enough.” Exasperated, I tried to find the words to explain the tangle of feelings that bound me. There had to be words for it. There were always words. “You’re perfect. But having you doesn’t magically make me happy.”

— Sophie Gonzales

2. “The thing about your dreams coming true is that, for a gold-spun moment, you catch a glimpse of what life could be like. Then when you lose it, and you crash back to reality, it’s from such a great height, all you can do is lie there, winded and bruised, while you come to terms with the idea that a happiness like that isn’t meant for you.”

— Sophie Gonzales

3. “But I’ve never been allowed to cry. My whole life I was taught that crying is a waste of time. Don’t cry. Fix it. Sort it out. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. But I can’t.”

— Sophie Gonzales

4. “It’s going to be great.”

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5. “Once you’ve learned shame, it settles into your skin like a tattoo. You can cover it up, but you can’t scrub off the sense of inadequacy.”

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6. “That’s the beautiful thing about the universe. It puts you through trials, but it never gives you anything you can’t handle. We grow from these things.”

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7. “And life was too short to play chicken with something as important as the person you loved.”

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8. “Alone in here, I could be any of that. I could feel every negative, terrible, aching feeling at once, and I didn’t have to be self-conscious about it or try to put on a mask so someone else didn’t feel dragged down.”

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9. “But if they keep accidentally ripping your heart out over and over again, doesn’t mean they’re terrible people, but it probably means you’re better off getting to a distance where they can’t keep doing that. Accidentally or not.”

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10. “So why did I feel like this? Like vines had grown around my heart and compressed it, and snaked up into my throat to choke my airway? Like something awful was coming, only I didn’t know what?”

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11. “Problem is, future-me is about to become present-me. I knew there was a flaw in the plan.”

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12. “People don’t grow and become better. If they hurt you once, they will continue to hurt you.”

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13. “What is it with guys calling their girlfriends psycho? It’s an epidemic.”

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14. “He places a firm hand on my thigh to steady himself as he takes a picture of the scenery, because he wants me to spontaneously combust, apparently.”

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15. “Good things can’t last by nature. If they did, they would stop being “good.” It’s probably for the best though. How can you appreciate something, if you don’t face the threat of its loss?”

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16. “She had the air of someone who’d won a battle with the patriarchy.”

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17. “Honestly, it’s all kind of overwhelming to think about, and I haven’t given myself the chance to dwell on it yet. It’s been easier to think of it as something that future-me would face. Problem is, future-me is about to become present-me.”

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18. “Ruben responds with a thumbs-up, which I know is just to annoy me. I’ve ranted to him before about how I think they’re passive-aggressive.”

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19. “He let out his breath like every bit of tension in his body seeped out with it. “I love you, too. I think I always did. I was just scared of what saying that might mean.” “And now you’re not?” “Not even a bit, Ollie.”

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20. “Music taste always felt so personal. Like if someone judged your playlist, they were really judging your soul.”

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21. “I fled. I fled like a bigot dodging the concept of equality.”

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22. “For the first time, the very very first time, I really believed them. That my relationship status did not change me. And that even if other people didn’t agree, every single person in this room had my back without hesitation. I was with them and they were with me and we were with each other. A community within a community within a community. No questions asked. No proof needed. No valid form of identification required. We just belonged because we belonged.”

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23. “The smile he gives me kind of makes my life.”

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24. “Well, when someone you love needs you, you step up, right?”

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25. “Maybe our Happily Ever After hadn’t worked on the first shot. And maybe Happily Ever Afters weren’t a singular event. Maybe they were something you had to work at, and build, and never give up on, as long as they were something you still wanted.”

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26. “Of all the terrifying decisions I’d had to make this year, among all the missteps and bad calls and failed attempts – agreeing to help Alexander Brougham was the most perfectly right decision I’d ever made.”

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27. “That they both love me.”

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28. “Yeah, fine as a man who’s been gently corrected on the internet,” Lara said, crossing one leg over the other.”

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29. “Brougham arrived at Mom’s house to join in on my birthday cake holding a plate of white bread coated in sugar sprinkles, for some reason.”

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30. “By that, she meant Dad’s parents. Her parents had passed away when I was little. They’d had Mom when they were super old, like, almost forty.”

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31. “It’s my perception, I’m sure, but when I’m singing solo, everything locks into place.”

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32. “Honestly, he was so beautiful. Like a delicately crafted piece of crystal, reflecting rainbow light. Anyone else would find it simple to handle him with care. I was hopeless, though. I would only break him into shards. I would block his light sooner or later. Even though I knew he’d be better, happier, with anyone else but me, I was too selfish to let him go. I was addicted to him. Maybe things would be better tomorrow. Maybe I’d fix things tomorrow.”

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33. “I don’t want to be the kind of person who’s so caught up in the past that she wastes her present and ruins her future.”

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34. “Mom. This didn’t happen to teach us all a lesson and help us to grow.” She darkened. “Ollie, that’s not what I meant and you know it.” “This isn’t beautiful. It’s ugly, and pointless.”

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35. “I have to treat a shirtless Zach like Medusa. No looking, on pain of death.”

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36. “But she hadn’t chosen me. She was never going to. And it didn’t matter how caring I was, or how much effort I put into my hair and makeup, or how much time I put in. It was me, as I was, that wasn’t doing it for her. There wasn’t anything I could do to change that. And that made me feel like there was something inherently not good enough about me.”

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37. “Everyone wants the world to see them as they are. The truth isn’t the problem. The problem is that the world doesn’t always make the truth safe for us to share.”

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38. “It’s been so hard for me to believe that being adored doesn’t mean I’m one mistake away from being despised.”

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39. “His weird little bastard accent had already been growing on me, but now that I was aware of its history, even more so.”

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40. “I’ll do whatever I have to do to protect this.”

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41. “Let me be clear, Gwendolyn. I would rather be swallowed up into the bowels of hell and enter an arrangement with the fallen angel Lucifer than date Jordy Miller again.”

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42. “Four percent isn’t a chance. It’s a sentence.” Her eyes welled dup again, and then she shook her head like a dog drying itself, Like she could shake off her tears. “I need you to promise me something. Promise me you won’t let anyone tell them they aren’t beautiful. You, too, Ollie.”

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43. “Statistically, the most amazing events that would ever happen in the world would probably happen sometime in the far future, and I’d never get to know about it. So many beautiful, wonderful things would happen one day, in a world that didn’t have me in it. And I didn’t want the world to keep going if I wasn’t in it.”

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44. “I’m out to everyone I want to be out to, but that doesn’t mean that, magically, everyone I meet ever again can just tell. Coming out didn’t plaster BISEXUAL across my forehead like we’re in a game of Celebrity. And I’m yet to pick up the habit of introducing myself to people as “Maya the bisexual,” even though it’d probably simplify things. So, it’s more of a “wait for it to come up in conversation” sort of deal most of the time.”

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45. “Now that I thought about it, I hadn’t gone out of my way to do something just for him that didn’t benefit me in any way. I’d been so focused on what I wanted from Will that I’d never really stopped to think about what he might want from me.”

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46. “The freedom to be ourselves, and express whatever truest version of ourselves we know of to the world as we see fit, is the most important freedom we have.”

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47. “I know what I want, and it’s you.”

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48. “Betwixt and between,” I said. “That’s the worst.” “Is that a poem?” Niamh asked. “Darnell is an idiot,” Lara said, pointing a french fry menacingly at Niamh. “Besides, the problem isn’t the city. If he got a job offer there I bet you he’d move in a heartbeat. He’s just intimidated by the thought of following around a strong woman while she chases her career instead of the other way around.” “Preach!” said Niamh, raising her Diet Coke in a toast.”

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49. “Maybe I could put it in a way that was accessible to them? Like, this is the cortisol that’s flooding the blood, that flows in the veins, that leads to the heart, that’s pumping too fast in the chest of the guy, who’s too scared to knock on the door of the house where Will lives.”

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50. “You’d be surprised how easy it is to talk an anxiously attached person down from their spiral if you don’t leave them in silence to imagine the worst.”

— Sophie Gonzales