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“I don’t go looking for trouble,” said Harry, nettled. “Trouble usually finds me.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don't do that.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Maybe you can't help him, darling. I know you love him so, so much. I'm sure he loves you too. And I know you feel like it's your job to "save him". I know it feels like you are both each other's whole world, but that dependency isn't healthy for either of you. Charlie needs help from someone who isn't his sixteen-year-old boyfriend. He needs help from a doctor or a therapist, someone who knows about eating disorder and how to treat them. Love can't cure a mental illness. There are lots of ways to help him, you can just be there. To listen. To talk. To cheer him up if he's having a bad day. And on the bad days you can ask what to could do to make things easier. Stand by his side, even when things are hard. But also knowing that sometimes people need more support than just one person can give. That's love darling" - Sarah Nelson (Nick's mum)”
― Alice Oseman

“Love can’t cure a mental illness.”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Four

“I love Nick. I love Nick so, so much. But what I’ve realised through all of this is that we need other people too. Siblings. Parents. Friends. More friends. A therapist. Even teachers, sometimes. That doesn’t mean our relationship isn’t strong. If anything… I think we’re stronger now.”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Four

“My whole life, you’ve tried to bully me into hating myself, just because you hate yourself. Well, it’s not working! I like who I am. I like my life! So why don’t you fuck off and focus on your own problems!”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Four

“You can't tell whether people are gay by what they look like. And gay or straight aren't the only two options.”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume One

“There's this idea that if you're not straight, you HAVE to tell all your family and friends immediately, like you owe it to them. But you don't. You don't have to do anything until you're ready.”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Three

“I like Charlie Spring! In a romantic way not just a friend way!”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Two

“...honestly I'm having a proper full-on GAY PANIC.”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Two

“...why are straight people like this”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Two

“One "sorry" doesn't make up for all the thing you said. So CONGRATS on your incredibly difficult realisation that gay people actually do have feelings and have a nice life. *slams the door* - Charlie Spring”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Three

“I thought… I just really liked you as a friend… a best friend… because, like, I want to hang out with you all the time and I just love everything about you… but I kept wanting to… I don’t know… hug you and hold your hand and then yesterday, when you suggested it, I- I really wanted to kiss you.”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Two

“*Tori opens the door onto Nick and Charlie kissing*
"What's up" - Charlie
"I got those pens you wanted" - Tori
"Oh. Thanks"
"..."
"What??"
*Tori glances at Nick* "well done" said smirkly

BAHAHAHA GO GURL GO!!”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Two

“I know. But this is my point. this whole deal with you and Nick being out to people... I think you need to stop worrying about anyone else feelings. - Aled Last”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Three

“Nick’s so in love with you it’s a little unbearable to watch sometimes.”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Three

“(...)people can be going through stuff... and you just have no idea.”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Four

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
― Stephen King

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
― Stephen King

“When things go wrong, don't go with them.”
― Elvis Presley

“I guess what I’m saying is it’s not all luck. It’s luck and being a son of a bitch.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Which is about the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Isn’t that the very definition of power? Watching people kill themselves over something that means nothing to you?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I simply didn't care. It cost so much, caring. I didn't have any currency to spend on it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I loved you so much, that I thought you were the meaning of my life," Celia said, crying. "I thought that people were put on Earth to find other people, and I was put on Earth to find you. To find you, and touch your skin, and smell your breath, and hear all your thoughts. But I don't think that's true anymore." She wiped her eyes. "Because I don't want to be meant for someone like you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“The world respects people who think they should be running it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“We all can’t go around treating people like dog shit and then expecting that a simple I’m sorry erases it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo