Alice Oseman Quotes

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. ~ Alice Oseman

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

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! ~ Alice Oseman

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

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

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

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. ~ Alice Oseman

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

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

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

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. ~ Alice Oseman

Everyone's different inside their head. ~ Alice Oseman

I'd listen to you for hours. ~ Alice Oseman

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

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. ~ Alice Oseman

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

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. ~ Alice Oseman

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

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

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... ~ Alice Oseman

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

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

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

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. ~ Alice Oseman

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

This is England, not Antarctica. Deal with it. ~ Alice Oseman

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

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. ~ Alice Oseman

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

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. ~ Alice Oseman

i'm platonically in love with you ~ Alice Oseman

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

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. ~ Alice Oseman

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

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

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. ~ Alice Oseman

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

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

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. ~ Alice Oseman

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 ~ Alice Oseman

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. ~ Alice Oseman

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? ~ Alice Oseman

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

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. ~ Alice Oseman

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

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. ~ Alice Oseman

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. ~ Alice Oseman

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 ~ Alice Oseman

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. ~ Alice Oseman

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. ~ Alice Oseman

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

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. ~ Alice Oseman

Shall we start over?' I say.

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

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. ~ Alice Oseman

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

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

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

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

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? ~ Alice Oseman

i felt a glow at the knowledge that she was happy ~ Alice Oseman

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

You're caring too much about people, Alice," he says. "Take it from me: sane is mundane, insanity is the new black." I ~ Cameron Jace

The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His. ~ Catherine Marshall

And Your modest ambition is to be a good housekeeper, isn't it?"
"Well, yes, Papa; but not only that. I was thinking about it afterward by myself, and I think housekeeping is a the practical part of it - and that's a good big part too - but What I really want to be is a lovely, good, womanly woman, like Aunt Alice, you know. ~ Carolyn Wells

Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls. ~ Alice Cooper

Only by thinking I had freedom had I come to understand how imprisoned I was. ~ Alice Sebold

And so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie. ~ Alice Hoffman

There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and, burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge. ~ Lewis Carroll

Shug: More than anything God love admiration.
Celie: You saying God is vain?
Shug: No, not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off when you walk by the colour purple in a field and don't notice it.
Celie: You saying it just wanna be loved like it say in the bible?
Shug: Yeah, Celie. Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved. Look at them trees. Notice how the trees do everything people do to get attention ... except walk?
[they laugh]
Shug: Oh Miss Celie, I feels like singing! ~ Alice Walker

Sometimes I think we can learn everything we need to know about the world when we read fairy tales. Be careful, be fearless, be honest, leave a trail of crumbs to lead you home again. ~ Alice Hoffman

Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows
far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests, she wouldn't die; she'd have to stay around to finish the books she was so fond of. "I've got to get to the bottom of this one," she'd say, as if a book were no different from a pond or a lake. I thought she'd go on reading forever but it didn't work out that way. ~ Alice Hoffman

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered. ~ Alice Walker

Wonderful. Mad at home and mad here. Was there nowhere that this Alice was truly sane? ~ Melanie Karsak

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks. ~ Alice Walker

But, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone. ~ Alice Sebold

Dear Alice,

Cogitate on this list when you're in the mood, but not too much and not too often....

Cultivate gratitude.
Think for yourself.
Treat all people equally.
Respect your body.
Don't be afraid to ask questions.
Ask for help when you need it.
Be your own best friend.
Don't be afraid to fail.
Do one thing at a time.
Learn how to dance.
Write thank-you notes.
Good manners never go out of style.
Treat your family and your friends like gold.
Give more than you receive.
Aim high ~ Laura Harrington

All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do ... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock. ~ Alice Cooper

There comes a time when every one of our people understands that a Jew can never be attached to a place. The rules always change, and we always lose. People will always despise us, and we must be ready to fly away. We cannot have roots in the earth of any country, only in the garden that we carry inside us. ~ Alice Hoffman

Luz felt as though all the millions of butterflies that were flying on this same journey south were fluttering in her stomach. ~ Mary Alice Monroe

Let him hear me. If [god] ever listened to poor colored women, the world would be a different place. ~ Alice Walker

I will not tell you one single solitary fact about my work, my friends, or the woman I was arested with. But I will tell you this, Rene Bordelon. You're a gullible fool. You're a terribly lover. And I hate Baudelaire. ~ Kate Quinn

Alice is the most… supportive. ~ Stephenie Meyer

I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have. ~ Alice Barrett

Tell me I am going to be alright," I plead to my Tiger Lily.
"You're not alright," the flower talks back. "You're insane, Alice. Insane!" It spreads it's petals and spits in my face. I am hallucinating again. ~ Cameron Jace

Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, "What road do I take?"
The cat asked, "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it really doesn't matter, does it? ~ Lewis Carroll

A fluid choice, the choice of fantasy, is poured out on the ground and instantly hardens; it has taken its undeniable shape. ~ Alice Munro

I would have drowned without you to watch over me ... I now understand there are a thousand ways to drown, and a thousand ways to rescue someone. ~ Alice Hoffman

You're awfully small to be so hugely irritating. ~ Stephenie Meyer

Living in the middle of beauty like this, we've no call to have puny ideas about God. Why do you suppose His world is so fancy-fine, so full of wonderment if He doesn't want everything to be good and perfect and right and healthy? But we can spoil His good work. When we mess things up, then we shouldn't blame Him and try to make ourselves feel better by contending that it's what He wanted. ~ Catherine Marshall

But where do we go?"(Elinor)
"I used to think there was a plan, a rough plan, but a plan all the same," the doctor admitted. "Now, I believe there are a thousand plans. Every breath, every decision, influences the plan, expands it, shortens it, twists it all around. It's always changing. Those of us lucky enough to make it through the multitude of possible diseases and accidents get old. We get tired. We close our eyes."
"And then? Where are we then?"
Silly to ask him as though he knew, but in fact the doctor didn't hesitate. He took Elinor's hand and placed it on his chest, in the place where he knew his heart to be.
"There."
Elinor smiled and thought at last. At last someone had told her the truth. ~ Alice Hoffman

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life. ~ Alice Hoffman

Alice heard a woman say, 'Before I start writing I feel affectionate, interested, and frustrated. In that order. Afterwards I feel relieved, disgusted, and confused. Sometimes I don't think it's worth it. ~ Joy Williams

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you. ~ Alice Walker

The version of me you knew is several years out of date. ~ Alice Feeney

Alice: Where Should I go?
Cheshire Cat: That depends, where do you want to end up? ~ Lewis Carroll

I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 P.M. ~ Alice Sebold

...Speak for yourself, I'm looking more radiant by the minute."

"You certainly look as if you've been enjoying the sun's radiance," said Alice, placing her forefingers gently at the corners of her eyes. ~ Jean-Luke Swanepoel

Deciding when and where you're going to do something will dramatically increase the likelihood you'll follow through. Let's look at the results from a specific study. Because most psychology research uses students as guinea pigs, this example relates to essay writing. Students who had an essay to complete were divided into two groups. One group was asked to state when and where they would complete their essay. Of this group, 71% completed the essay before the due date. The other group was given the due date but were not asked to state when and where they'd write their essay. Only 32% of this group finished on time. This extremely simple, two-minute intervention transformed the task from one in which most people failed to one in which most people succeeded.
To implement this change in your own life whenever you're planning to take action, identify when and where you'll act. Make this a habit you do every time. ~ Alice Boyes

I've finally given in, my eyes are shut under the blindfold. I can hear and smell, but I cannot see. My hands are clammy I feel cold yet I am warm. It is what I wanted, but I am now unsure, dubious yet at the same time excited and curious. I would like to think I feel a bit like Alice just before she fell down the hole into the rabbit hole. Yet there are no rabbits here… not even those of the rampant persuasion. ~ LEONORA MORRISON

He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky. ~ Alice Hoffman