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“I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Everyone's different inside their head.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“But books–they’re different. When you watch a film, you’re sort of an outsider looking in. With a book–you’re right there. You are inside. You are the main character.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“Hello.
I hope somebody is listening.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I wish I could be as subtle and beautiful. All I know how to do is scream.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Being clever was, after all, my primary source of self-esteem. I’m a very sad person, in all senses of the word, but at least I was going to get into university.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I think everyone’s a bit bored with boy-girl romances anyway,” he said. “I think the world’s had enough of those, to be honest.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

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

“All I know is that I’m here. And I’m alive. And I’m not alone.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“Nick and Charlie! Are the two of you coming, or-Oh. You're being gay. Good job. Carry on.”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper - Volume 3

“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

“As far as I'm concerned, I came out of the womb spouting cynicism and wishing for rain.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

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

“It must be useful to be smart," she said and then laughed weakly. She glanced down and suddenly looked very sad. "I'm like, constantly scared I'm going to be a homeless or something. I wish our whole lives didn't have to depend on our grades.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Most adults see teenagers as confused kids who don't understand much, while they're the pillars of knowledge and experience and know exactly what is right at all times.
I think the truth is that everyone in the entire world is confused and nobody understands much of anything at all.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

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

“I think you should know that I make up a lot of stuff up in my head and then get sad about it. I like to sleep and I like to blog. I am going to die someday.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“You look like you're having a midlife crisis."
"It's not a midlife crisis. It's just a life crisis.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I don’t want people to be worried about me. There’s nothing to worry about. I don’t want people to try and understand why I’m the way I am, because I should be the first person to understand that. And I don’t understand yet. I don’t want people to interfere. I don’t want people in my head, picking out this and that, permanently picking up the broken pieces of me.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“There’s a time and a place for being normal. For most people, normal is their default setting. But for some, like you and me, normal is something we have to bring out, like putting on a suit for a posh dinner.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“Nobody is honest, nobody is real. You can't trust anyone or anything. Emotions are humanity's fatal disease. And we're all dying.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“School literally doesn’t care about you unless you’re good at writing stuff down or you’re good at memorising or you can solve bloody maths equations. What about the other important things in life?”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“There comes a point, though, when you can't keep looking after other people any more. You have to start looking after yourself.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I hadn’t realized I was crying. I don’t really feel sad. I don’t really feel anything.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I think you should know that I make up a lot of stuff in my head and then get sad about it.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I don't understand why you can't accept things like this. If you can't accept things you don't understand, then you'll spend your life questioning everything. Then you'll have to live out your life in you own head.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“It’s just that it’s not socially acceptable to say depressing stuff out loud in the real world because people think that you’re attention seeking.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“If you can't accept things you don't understand, then you'll spend your life questioning everything. Then you'll have to live out your life in your own head.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“Maybe you are a manically depressed psychopath.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“And there’s sort of a moment where everyone’s sitting and thinking, you know? Like that feeling when you finish watching a film. You turn off the TV, the screen is black, but the pictures are replaying in your head and you think, what if that’s my life? What if that’s going to happen to me?”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire