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“I believe in love at first sight. Fate, the universe, all of it. But not how you’re thinking. I don’t mean it in the our souls were split and you’re my other half forever and ever sort of way. I just think you’re meant to meet some people. I think the universe nudges them into your path.”
― Becky Albertalli, What If It's Us

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“I felt guilty about that for a while until I realized everyone is just a collage of their favorite parts of other people.”
― Dodie Clark, Secrets for the Mad

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

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

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“But it sucks when life moves along without you. Sometimes I feel left out even when life's moving along with me.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“With that knowledge came the realization that I was absolutely, without any shred of doubt, profoundly in love with her.”
― Audrey Coulthurst, Of Fire and Stars

“No … because they are just husbands. I am Evelyn Hugo. And anyways, I think once people know the truth, they will be much more interested in my wife.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“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.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“I felt like I was sick. I refused to process anything, so I just let it all sit inside me and rot.”
― Tillie Walden, Spinning

“I was basically born knowing how to casually stalk people on social media.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“So I’m not going to be able to get up on the fence and sing ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy’ while waving six American flags and twirling a baton?”
― Rachel Hawkins, Royals

“So I fell in love, over and over again, never once thinking it could ever be real.”
― Tillie Walden, Spinning

“Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“Some truths are safest buried. Some castles best kept in the sky. There's promise in tales that are yet to be spoken.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“Maybe she's beautiful and nice and talented. That should be illegal. It's not fair to the rest of us drudges.”
― Jennifer Dugan, Verona Comics

“I think sometimes we make the mistake of thinking monsters are abhorrent aberrations, lurking in the darkest recesses, when the truth is far more disturbing. The most monstrous men are those who sit in plain sight, daring you to challenge them.”
― Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

“The path humans took through time was less the mythical arrow of progress, and more of a squiggle that doubled back on itself, curling and looping. A roller coaster designed by a drunkard.”
― A.R. Capetta, Once & Future

“Suddenly it all looked so ... heterosexual.”
― Katie Heaney, Would You Rather? A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out

“Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly”
― Hank Green

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

“You are always a little bit wrong”
― Hank Green

“And I’m platonically in love with you.”
“That was literally the boy-girl version of ‘no homo’, but I appreciate the sentiment.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

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

“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

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

“She's happy with who she is. Maybe it's not the heteronormative dream that she grew up wishing for, but... knowing who you are and loving yourself is so much better than that, I think.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

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