Alice Oseman Quotes

That's why people get into fandom and bands and stuff. They just want something to hold on to something that makes them feel good. Even if it's all a big lie.

...it felt like we were friends. Friends who barely knew anything about each other except the other's most private secret.

We both say, 'Aaaaaay,' at the same time, and I think that means we're friends.

The large majority of teenagers who attend Higgs are soulless, conformist idiots. I have successfully integrated myself into a small group of girls who I consider to be "good people," but sometimes I still feel that I might be the only person with a consciousness, like a video game protagonist, and everyone else are computer-generated extras who have only a select few actions, such as "initiate meaningless conversation" and "hug.

It carries on. The world, I mean. And we sit and we watch. And I know I did something. Took a risk. Lived a real life.
Me. Angel Rahimi.
Maybe tomorrow I'll do something else. Maybe tomorrow I'll wake up and think about me and what I want. Maybe tomorrow I'll believe in something other than boys on a screen.

I stopped speaking. There was no point trying to argue. There was no way she was going to even attempt to listen to me.
They never do, do they? They never even try to listen to you.

I wasn't sure how anyone could mistake an Indian girl for a British-Ethiopian girl, but there it is. Gotta love white people.

I know. But this is my point. this whole deal with you and Nick being out to people... I think you need to stop worrying about anyone else feelings. - Aled Last

i felt a glow at the knowledge that she was happy

You probably think Aled Last and I are going to fall in love because he is a boy and I am a girl.
I just wanted to say.
We don't

If we can talk about anxiety, we can talk about poo. They're basically the same thing.

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.

I'd listen to you for hours.

I couldn't quite believe how much I seriously loved Aled Last, even if it wasn't in the ideal way that would make it socially acceptable for us to live together until we die.

Shall we start over?' I say.

Juliet shrugs. 'No. This has been an important part of our friendship development.

Everything's better under the stars, I suppose. If we get another life after we die, I'll meet you there, old sport...

I don't know. I think I did my best."

Raine looked at me for a moment. "Well... that's good? That's all you can do.

Basking in the light and glory that comes with not giving a damn.

This is England, not Antarctica. Deal with it.

But books–they're different. When you watch a film, you're sort of an outsider looking in. With a book–you're right there. You are inside. You are the main character.

I don't think I need to try everything to know I don't like it.

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.

It's all fake. Everyone is faking. Why does no one care about anything?

I didn't want to be in a bad mood in my history exam. Writing about the division of Germany for two hours was sad enough.

My reasoning was that since there was no easy way to bring this up, I might as well just blurt it out. This is how I get through most of my life.

I don't think age has much to do with adulthood.

Nothing's going to change until you decide you want it to change.

She definitely wasn't what I thought she was.'

'She wasn't a maniacal fan, you mean?'

'She was a maniacal fan, but I don't think the maniacal fans are what I thought they were. Well, not all of them, anyway.'

'They're just a bit normal, really,' I say.

'Or we're all weird.'

'You can say that again.

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.

In an otherwise mediocre existence, we chose to feel passion.

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.

I am not afraid, said Noah
I was born for this".

Everyone's different inside their head.

You look like you're having a midlife crisis."
"It's not a midlife crisis. It's just a life crisis.

Two girls walk past in gargantuan heels and dresses so tight that their skin is spilling out, and one of them says to the other, "Wait, who the fuck is Lewis Carroll?" and in my imagination I pull a gun out of my pocket, shoot them both and then shoot myself.

I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am i making any sound at all?

[...] and I realised that it was because what I was doing wasn't 'giving up'. It was acceptance.

I punched her in the face and she got a nosebleed and cried. An accurate metaphor for most of my past friendships.

I hold up a hand and salute them, and they scream back at me. That's how we communicate.

There were never any romantic feelings between Pip, Jason and me. But what we did have -afriendship of many years- was just as strong as that, I think. Stronger, maybe than a lot of couples I knew.

i'm platonically in love with you

I didn't really want to go. Firstly, everyone was just gonna get drunk, which I could do perfectly well by myself in my den while watching YouTube videos instead of having to worry about catching the last train home or avoiding sexual assault.

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.

You can't tell whether people are gay by what they look like. And gay or straight aren't the only two options.

Are they also …?'
'They're asexual too.'
'Wow.' Ellis grinned. 'Well, that makes three of us.'
'There are more,' I said. 'A lot more. Out there. In the world.'
'Really?'
'Yeah.' Ellis stared out of the window, smiling. 'That would be nice. If there were lots out there.

As far as I'm concerned, I came out of the womb spouting cynicism and wishing for rain.

Picturing fanfic characters having sex? Great. Fine. Sexy. But picturing myself having sex with anyone, guy, girl, whoever, didn't interest me. No – it was more than that. It was an immediate fucking turn-off.

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?

This is real, this is me,' I said.
She blinked. 'Did you just quote Camp Rock at me? That's not very pop punk."
'I've gotta go my own way.'
'Okay, firstly, that's High School Musical...

Are you wearing that?' he [Daniel] said. I looked down. I was wearing my batman onesie.
'Yes,' I said, 'Problem?'
'So many,' he said, turning around. 'So many problems.

which is pretty pathetic, to be honest. which is what i am. i shouldn't be surprised at myself.

School literally doesn't care about you unless you're good at writing stuff down or you're good at memorising or you can solve bloody maths equations. What about the other important things in life?

I'm sure you think I was complaining about nothing. You probably think I'm a whiny teenager. And yeah, it was all in my head, probably. That doesn't mean it wasn't real. So fuck you all.

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.

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.

I wonder sometimes whether you've exploded already, like a star, and what I'm seeing you is three million years into the past, and you're not here anyore. How can we be together here, now, when you are so far away. When you are so far ago? I'm shouting so loudly, but you never turn around to see me. Perhaps it is I who have already exploded. Either way, we are going to bring beautiful things into the universe.

Happiness," he says, "is the price of profound thought."
"Who's that quote from?" I ask.
He winks. "Me.

Hello, I hope somebody is listening...If nobody is listening, am I making any sound at all?

You deserve better friends,' she said. 'You're a sunshine angel.

I'm gonna die,' I say again, as we're walking out of the tube station towards the O2 arena. 'I'm gonna die. I'm literally gonna die.'
'Wouldn't recommend that,' says Juliet, as if she's been on a two-week holiday to Death and gave it two out of five on TripAdvisor.

He raises the flask and studies it, as if he'd forgotten all about it. He looks back at me and his eyes sparkle and he bellows into the night: "Tea is the elixir of life!