Hanna

“Oh well,' she said, patting my leg again, 'plenty of time, my love. Plenty of time.'
But my time is now, I wanted to scream. My life is happening right now.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“And the worst part of it was—even though I'd longed for these things, I knew that they'd never make me happy anyway. The idea was beautiful. But the reality made me sick.
How could I feel so sad about giving up these things that I did not actually want?
I felt pathetic for getting sad about it. I felt guilty, knowing that there were people out there like me who were happy being like this.
I felt like I was grieving. I was grieving this fake life, a fantasy future that I was never going to live.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“The day I met you, it was like a light turned on and I could see everything in magnificent, magical technicolour. You didn't fix me, only I can do that, but you make me care about stuff again, you know?”
― Tanya Byrne, Afterlove

“It was something adults said all the time. "You'll change your mind when you're older. You never know what might happen. You'll feel differently one day." As if we teenagers knew so little about ourselves that we could wake up one day a completely different person. As if the person we are right now doesn't matter at all.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless