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“Basking in the light and glory that comes with not giving a damn.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“Just because someone smiles doesn’t mean that they’re happy.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“Hey Sarge, remember me?”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“She wanted to go back. SHe wanted to run to him, fall into him, be Team Ravi and Pip and nothing more. Tell him she loved him in all the secret ways they had, hear him speak all those names he had for her in his butter-soft voice.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“She still spoke to Ravi every day. Not the real one, the one who lived in her head. She spoke to him when she was scared or unsure, asked him what he would do if he were there. He sat beside her when she was lonely, and she was always lonely, looking at old photos on her phone. He told her goodnight and kept her company in the dark while she learned how to sleep again.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“if it's a choice between me and you, i choose you”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“Pip looked back, over her shoulder, through the trees. Ravi was on his knees in the leaves, face hidden, bawling into his hands. It hurt more than anything, to see him that way, and her chest opened up, reaching out to him, trying to drive her back. Hold him, take the hurt away and let him take hers.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“Microwave him.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good as Dead

“You're Pippa Fricking Fitz-Amo-bi. My little Sarge. Pippus Maximus, and there's nothing you can't do.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“You're my person. My little one. My Sarge. And I'm supposed to protect you.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good as Dead

“It’s just...’ he drew off, his voice guttering out. ‘It’s scary, to know that someone might want to hurt you, or make you scared. You’re my person. My little one. My Sarge. And I’m supposed to protect you.’ ‘You do protect me,’ she said, holding his eyes. ‘Even when you’re not here.’ He was her life raft, her cornerstone for what good truly meant. Didn’t he know that?”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“Her judgement day would come, but for now, Pip walked and she promised. That's all. One foot in front of the other, even if she had to drag them, even when the hole in her heart felt too big to keep standing. She walked and she promised and he was with her, Ravi's fingers slotting in between hers in the way they used to fit, fingertips in the dips of her knuckles.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“You are the maximum amount of Pipness that any Pip could be. The Ultra-Pip. I’m going to introduce you to my family this weekend as Pippus Maximus”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“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

“You like to act as if you care about nothing and if you carry on like that then you’re going to drown in the abyss you have imagined for yourself.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“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

“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

“Do you think that, if we were happy for our entire lives, we would die feeling like we'd missed out on something?”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“The problem is that people don't act.
The problem is that I don't act.
I just sit here, doing nothing, assuming that someone else is going to make things better.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I hate the phone. It is the worst invention in the history of the world, because if you don’t talk, nothing happens. You can’t get by with simply listening and nodding your head in all the right places. You have to talk. You have no option. It takes away my freedom of nonspeech.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“We’re so used to disaster that we accept it. We think we deserve it.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“You know, if you want to be happier, you have to try. You have to put in the effort. Your problem is that you don’t try.” I do try. I have tried. I have tried for sixteen years.”
― 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

“If this is the best time of my life, I might as well end it immediately.”
― 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 know why I made all that fuss the other day. No that's a lie. I do know why. It's because I'm an idiot.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“Nice people are vulnerable because they don’t know how to be mean.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I really don’t do anything unless I actually want to do it. And most of the time I don’t want to do anything at all.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“What can I say? People aren’t observant. People don’t question stuff like this. They never think twice about déjà vu when there could be a glitch in the Matrix. They walk past tramps in the streets without even glancing at their misfortune. They don’t psychoanalyse the creators of slasher-horrors when they’re probably all psychopaths.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“It's all fake. Everyone is faking. Why does no one care about anything?”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire