Alice Oseman Quotes

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

“I've learnt some Things. Like the way friendship can be just as intense, beautiful and endless as romance. Like the way there's love everywhere around me - there's love for my friends, there's love for my paintings, there's love for myself.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“People move on quicker than I can comprehend. People forget you within days, they take new pictures to put on Facebook and they don't read your messages. They keep on moving forward and shove you to the side because you make more mistakes than you should.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Sometimes you can't say the things you're thinking. Sometimes it's too hard.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Hello, I hope somebody is listening...If nobody is listening, am I making any sound at all?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I'm as lost as ever, friends. Can you tell?

I'd like it if someone were to rescue me soon. Oh, I'd like that very much. I'd like that. I'd like that very much indeed.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I knew liking girls could be hard when you're also a girl. It usually was, at least for a while. But it was beautiful too. So fucking beautiful.
Liking girls when you're a girl was power. It was light. Hope. Joy. Passion.
Sometimes it took girls who liked girls a little while to find that. But when they found it, they flew.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“He knew I was gay for ages," he said, his voice soft. "We both did. Since we were, like, ten or eleven, maybe. As soon as we understood what gay was, we knew that's what I was. We... We used to kiss sometimes, when we were kids. When we were alone. Just little childish kisses, little pecks on the lips because we thought it was fun. We were always... really affectionate with each other. We'd cuddle and... we were kind to each other, rather than nasty like most children. I think we were so caught up in each other that we just... missed all the heteronormative propaganda that's thrust at you when you're that age. We didn't really realize it was weird until - yeah, until we were ten or eleven. But that didn't really stop us. I guess... I guess I always felt like it was more romantic than Aled did. Aled always just treated it like it was something that friends did rather than boyfriends. Aled... he's always been weird. He doesn't care what people think. He doesn't even, like, register the social norms... he's just caught up in his own little world.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Radio's trapped in Universe City. And someone's finally heard him. Someone is going to rescue him.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Does anyone have any tips for avoiding sinking into the concrete?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I don't know why you won't even look me in the eye. I don't understand anything you're doing or saying, and it's killing me, because I already don't undestand a single thing about me or Michael or Becky or my brother or anything on this shitty planet.”
― 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? Why don't I get that happy ending? Why am I complaining about my problems?”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“As I open the door, he murmurs: “Nothing’s going to change until you decide you want it to change.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“We were so important to each other. We'd tell each other everything and anything. We were each other's first everything. First and only everything.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“She was everything I wasn't - she was drama, emotion, intrigue, power. I was nothing. Nothing happened to me.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“We'd found him. We'd helped him. We'd rescued him – we hoped.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“There's magic under our feet, not just in our eyes.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“And the three of us laugh. And I imagine this must be what it's like to have real friends.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“Theres nothing left for us anymore
Why aren't you listening?
Why aren't you listening to me?
Theres nothing left.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“She knows now. She knows that the smiles, the romance, the sparkly boy band dream - it's all just fantasy. fantasy and lies.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“being a fan isn’t always about the thing you’re a fan of. okay, well it sort of is, but there is so much more to it than just going online and screaming that you love something. being a fan has given me people to talk to about the things that i like for the last five years. being a fan has made me better friends online than i’ve ever encountered in real life; it has entered me into a community where people are joined in love and passion and hope and joy and escape. being a fan has given me a reason to wake up, something always to look forward to, something to dream about while i’m trying to fall asleep”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“I still couldn’t quite imagine a scenario in which I would fall for someone, but I was going to make it happen, and I was going to enjoy it”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless