DEZI

“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

“We were never just friends, were we?’
I tried to remember. Had there ever been a time when my heart didn’t race around her? When my hands weren’t drawn to her hands? When fighting with her didn’t feel like the end of the world? When she wasn’t untangling my life? When we weren’t tangled together?
‘No,’ I said. ‘I guess we were never just.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“It's not a problem to be nineteen and unsure of what you want to do with the rest of your life.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

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