Becky Quotes

What's wrong with slowmance? That should be a word. It's like a slow romance. A way to let the romantic moments linger. ~ Becky Albertalli

That has to be the best part of being in love - the feeling of having a home in someone else's brain. ~ Becky Albertalli

I got discovered off of YouTube. ~ Becky G

And you know what? I'm pretty much done with this construct of 'virginity' which I'm sure you think applied to hetero vaginal sex." ... "Why would that be considered more intimate than oral? Like why do you get to decide what makes something intimate ~ Becky Albertalli

I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while. ~ Becky Watson

"Repeat that?"
"It's National Talk Like a Pirate Day. Didn't you know?"
"Somehow I missed the memo."
"You mean, 'Somehow I missed the memo, arrr!'"
"Precisely. Arr. So, Mrs. Jack ... Er, is that still your name? Or, I tremble to ask, have you adopted a pirate identity?"
"Arr, matey, of course I have! It's ... " She pulled an eggplant from the grocery bag. "Captain Eggplantier." She needed to stop speaking the first words that popped into her mind.
"Captain Eggplanteir." He sounded very doubtful.
"That's right. A family name. It's Belgian. ~ Shannon Hale

I always tell people, 'Coming from such a big Mexican family when there's a new baby every three weeks, you have to do something to get someone's attention.' ~ Becky G

I'll eat anything. I love food in general. I love traditional Mexican, carne asada. Just meat, beans, rice, and some good salsa. ~ Becky G

I mean, that's my family. Everything's a freaking secret, because everything's a big deal. Everything is like coming out" -Simon ~ Becky Albertalli

He laughs. "I'm sitting at my desk, looking through my window, and talking to you."
"Talking to your boyfriend."
"Yeah," he says. I can hear him smiling. "Him". ~ Becky Albertalli

Humans wasted so much time being redundant. ~ Becky Chambers

encouragement. Becky Johnson of Hot Tree Editing has been a miracle worker, and this updated version goes to prove how well an author and editor can work together to create a wonderful story. I am blessed ~ Sheila Kell

Ohan, as your doctor, I have to remind you that your body has only had to digest nutrient paste for some time, adopting other foods will take some adjustment.' His cheeks puffed wide. 'But as your - as your friend, there is no way I'd rather spend my afternoon than cooking a meal for you. With you, even, if you'd like. ~ Becky Chambers

'Can't Stop Dancing' is this other side of me that I was ready to introduce to my fans, which is like, after you hang out with me, you start to see that I can be chilled and relaxed, and I'm a little bit more mature for my age. ~ Becky G

Can ambiguous social situations kindly go fuck themselves? ~ Becky Albertalli

She was bookish! She had no experience holding eye contact with Navy SEALs. All the practice she'd put in with Mr. Darcy and Rochester and Adolphus didn't seem to be holding her in good stead. ~ Becky Wade

Such a quintessentially Human thing, to express sorrow through apology. ~ Becky Chambers

Mistakes mean progress. ~ Becky Chambers

Joshua smiles, runs his finger round the rim of the coconut. 'Some people are summer, and some people are winter,' he says softly after a moment, but I'm just looking at the ocean now, trying not to fall. ~ Becky Wicks

Your words are unique to you.
A God given gift of thoughts and ideas that only you can share with the world. Share on! There is room on these shelves for your book!
B.Villareal 2014 ~ Becky Villareal

Abby Suso is singlehandedly reclaiming eye crinkles for our generation. ~ Becky Albertalli

Speaking of Aeluons," Sissix said. "I am dying to know where out captain is." She turned toward the vox. "Hey, Lovey."
"Nope," Lovey said.
Sissix and Rosemary exchanged amused looks. "Nope?" Sissix said.
"You heard me. No way."
"Please? You don't have to say what they're doing, just tell me where - "
"Oh, no! I seem to have a…circuit…problem. I can't talk to you anymore." The vox switched off. ~ Becky Chambers

Stay happy and healthy. Take time to read a good book and live your dreams. I am and loving it! ~ Becky Wilde

I'm glad I ran into you. It was true. Seeing him shirtless and sweaty was like a shot in the arm. She now felt like she had the hormone power to walk for miles. ~ Becky Wade

I wish I had the kind of talent that emerged fully formed. I don't like people seeing me in progress. ~ Becky Albertalli

I can't do many things," he said fiercely, "but I can love you, Meg. I can love you every hour of every day for the rest of my life. I swear to you I can. I want to earn the right to try." The pad of his thumb rubbed her cheek. "I love you so much I can hardly see straight. I can't concentrate. I can't sleep. I can't make myself care about anything on earth except for you. I'm useless." "No you're not." "I'm a mess." "No." "I am." He insisted. "About you, I am. ~ Becky Wade

Friendship is like that. I guess it's not always about common ground. ~ Becky Albertalli

If I ask what I'm asking only of people who agree with me at the outset, with whom I already share a dream and a language, then there's no point in asking at all. ~ Becky Chambers

When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage. ~ Becky G

As a side note, don't you think everyone should have to come out? Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it should be this big awkward thing whether you're straight, gay, bi, or whatever. Just saying. ~ Becky Albertalli

Come see my mommy, Becky!" Will said and Bree stopped in her tracks. "Oh hell no!" she exclaimed staring at 'Becky'. Rebecca, the bane of Bree's existence. The blonde woman smiled mockingly at Bree. "How ya doing?" "What?" Bree asked but the question was directed at her brother and not the skank in front of her. "So how was Paris?" Rebecca asked moving right past Bree to practically press her body against Alessandro. "Seriously, what?" Bree demanded, glaring at Brian. "Hey, Alessandro. Great to see you again." "Stop talking. Stop talking now before I ram your botoxed head through this table!" Bree hissed lunging at her. Brian grabbed her quickly and held her back. "Sorry. Bree's a little bit touchy about that whole Vegas thing I guess. But hey, looks like it all worked for the best, huh?" Rebecca winked at Alessandro ~ E. Jamie

And suddenly, I feel like crying, but not in a bad way. More like in the way you feel when someone gives you a perfect present - something you'd been wanting, but thought you couldn't ask for. It's that feeling of someone knowing you in all the ways you needed to be known. ~ Becky Albertalli

It was hard to play it cool when you wore your heart on your face. ~ Becky Chambers

I don't have a twin. That's impossible." - Sutton
"You do have a twin." - Becky ~ Sara Shepard

She has the kind of mouth that always rests in a faint smile, and she smells a little like French toast. ~ Becky Albertalli

As you said, he had everything. That made him feel safe and powerful. People can do terrible things when they feel safe and powerful. ~ Becky Chambers

I'm nosey, and I have a great imagination. So it's not necessarily things I have to go through, but it's things people I know or my family is going through, and I hear about it, and I think, 'That sounds like a great song.' ~ Becky G

You're his normality. You're a part of him, and he is a part of you. That's what makes this frightening, but that's what makes it right. ~ Becky Wicks

Because there's this invisible line, and on one side are people like Garrett and Abby and Nick and every musician ever. People who go to parties and drink and don't get wasted off of one beer. People who have had sex and don't think it's a huge deal.
On the other side of the line are people like Leah and me.
But the one thing that makes it weirdly better is knowing that Blue is one of us. ~ Becky Albertalli

The house came with a set of Pugs, which are sort of a cross between Peter Lorre and a bratwurst. ~ Becky Masterman

Where there's God, there's hope," she said. "And where there's hope, there can be healing. ~ Becky Wade

People are shameless when it comes to cake. It's ~ Becky Albertalli

There were two things about the plan that worried Sidra: the breach of Pepper's privacy, and the part that could kill Sidra if she did it wrong. The rest of it was easy. They ~ Becky Chambers

I am such a dick. Like, I'm an actual flaccid penis of a person. ~ Becky Albertalli

'Latina' has become part of the Becky G family, and I feel very proud to say that. ~ Becky G

Never say never," Arthur says. "Right?" So much hope hangs in one word. "Right," I say. "Never know what the universe has planned for us." I don't know what we have planned for us. What if there's a do-over down the line for us? What if we end up in the same city again and pick up where we left off? What if we go as far as we once hoped we would, and boom, happy ending for us? But what if this is it for us? What if we never get to kiss again? What if we're there for each other's big moments, but we aren't at the heart of those big moments anymore? What if the universe always wanted us to meet and stay in each other's lives forever as best friends? What if we rewrite everything we expect from happy endings? Or . . . What if we haven't seen the best us yet? ~ Becky Albertalli

My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More 'va va voom,' I guess you can say. ~ Becky G

Though the idea of objective hotness fucks me up a little. The idea that certain arrangements of facial features are automatically superior. ~ Becky Albertalli

I am seventy-nine years old. If I want dessert twice ... I get dessert twice. ~ Becky Chambers

They'd strapped themselves into this explosive hunk of scrap and aimed for the sky. How was this a good idea? How had anyone ever thought this was a good idea? ~ Becky Chambers

Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let's go on trying. ~ Mark Twain

...I didn't trust you because I liked you. I trusted you because you earned it." -Becky ~ Robison Wells

Puberty is merciless. ~ Becky Albertalli

We might give it our all and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, don't you think? ~ Becky Albertalli

What a messed up year this is going to be." Becky said after the laughter quieted down. "And it's only just the beginning. ~ Adrienne Woods

Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need. ~ Becky G

You're not being fair to yourself,' Dylan says.
'Maybe not. But I'm being honest.'
I rush for the steps and head back down into the park. ~ Becky Albertalli

What's a dementor?"
I mean, I can't even. "Nora, you are no longer my sister."
"So it's some Harry Potter thing," she says. ~ Becky Albertalli

The thing is, a lot of laws are stupid, too, and they don't always keep people out of danger. ~ Becky Chambers

With a terrible silence, the sky ripped open.

It swallowed them.

Rosemary looked out the window, and realised that she'd never really seen the colour black before. ~ Becky Chambers

You are all desperate for purpose, even though you don't have one. You're animals, and animals don't have a purpose. Animals just are. And there are a lot of intelligent - sentient, maybe - animals out there who don't have a problem with that. They just go on breathing and mating and eating each other without a second thought. But the animals like you - the ones who make tools and build cities and itch to explore, you all share a need for purpose. For reason . That thinking worked well for you, once. ~ Becky Chambers

I hate when writers make Draco sweet. Sorry, but Draco's a bitch. Own it. I mean, yeah, he's a ball of mush underneath, but you have to earn it with him. ~ Becky Albertalli

I looked at Mommy but quickly shook my head. "I don't want to miss her."
Becky put her soft, warm hand on my shoulder, just like Mommy used to when I was upset. "Your mom wants to be here with you. She wants that very much. But Jesus wants her with him right now."
I frowned. "I need her more than Jesus does. ~ Jamie McGuire

But it's not quite so raw. You know, when you're seventeen, everything feels like the end of the world. Or the beginning of the world. And that's an awesome thing. ~ Becky Albertalli

Anyway, we have something for you."
"Is it another awkward anecdote about me breast-feeding?"
"Oh my God, you were all about the boob," my dad says. "I can't believe you turned out to be gay."
"Hilarious, Dad. ~ Becky Albertalli

Our children were created with a deep hunger to encounter the supernatural living God. ~ Becky Fischer

We're at that kind of moment where we really have to understand that everyone is totally connected and everyone is important. ~ Becky Stark

He turned and saw Becky, crying in the doorway of her house. What was he doing here? Turning back he saw flashing blue lights at the end of the road, and realised the ringing in his ears was the sound of approaching sirens. ~ R.D. Ronald

Okay. I have a crush. But it's not like having a crush on some random musician or actor or Harry freaking Potter. This is the real deal. It has to be. It's almost debilitating. ~ Becky Albertalli

When Willow took the long view of her dad's story, she could see plainly how God had taken her dad's failures and sorrows and created something beautiful out of them. Why was it so hard for her to accept that God could do the same for her? Was her faith too small? Or was her regret too big? Perhaps her regret was so big that it had kept her faith small these past four years. ~ Becky Wade

And maybe a few days of freedom would be better than a lifetime spent as a slave. ~ Becky Allen

He had loved her for so, so long. He was hers. There was no changing his course, no getting over her, no moving on. ~ Becky Wade

I take a sip of my beer, and it's - I mean, it's just astonishingly disgusting. I don't think I was expecting it to taste like ice cream, but holy fucking hell. People lie and get fake IDs and sneak into bars, and for this? I honestly think I'd rather make out with Bieber. The dog. Or Justin. ~ Becky Albertalli

I don't even dislike Abby. It's just that my brain doesn't work right around her. ~ Becky Albertalli

Tea was a moody drink. ~ Becky Chambers

The very fact we use the term "cold-blooded" as a synonym for "heartless" should tell you something about the innate bias we primates hold against reptiles. Do not judge other species by your own social norms. ~ Becky Chambers

When I'm on family road trips, there is always Ranchera playing. ~ Becky G

And you know what? You don't get to say it's not a big thing. This is a big fucking thing, okay? This was supposed to be - this is mine. I'm supposed to decide when and where and who knows and how I want to say it. ~ Becky Albertalli

I just think you're meant to meet some people. I think the universe nudges them into your path. ~ Becky Albertalli

To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort of behavior. Humans had a long, storied history of forcing their way into places where they didn't belong. ~ Becky Chambers

He'd sacrifice even his sanity for her. If it came down to it, he'd let her break his heart.
Because he loved her. ~ Becky Wade

You in the mood for a movie tonight?" Kate asked him a couple days later. Matt was working, and she was sitting on her customary bucket taking a break, drinking bottled water, and surreptitiously admiring him from every angle.
"I could pick something up on my way over tonight."
"Sure."
"How about Pride and Prejudice?"
"What's that?" he asked warily. It's not one of those movies where they all wear old-fashioned clothes and walk around talking in British accents, is it?"
"That's exactly what it is."
Matt groaned.
"It's romantic! Maybe one of the most romantic stories ever. ~ Becky Wade

Some people are meant to change history. And some people are meant to change out of their vomity interview clothes. ~ Becky Albertalli

I don't know. There's just something kind of mortifying to me about the intensity of those feelings. I remember them so clearly. ~ Becky Albertalli

I've never been good with people. I've always preferred my lab. I like data. Data is consistent, it's steady, it's easy to understand. With data, you always know what the answer is. ~ Becky Chambers

Sometimes the very best thing we can do is walk away. ~ Becky Chambers

I'm going to a dance."
With Becky?"
No, with Alexander."
Who's Alexander?"
The love of my life! ~ Ellen Schreiber

It's really amazing, isn't it? Someone can trigger your sexual identity crisis and not have a clue they're doing it. ~ Becky Albertalli

It is difficult to give thought to the stars when the ground is swallowing you up. ~ Becky Chambers

The accents floating around the park sounded as varied, ~ Becky Rodgers Boyette

Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes."
"What causes the other ten percent?" asked Kizzy.
"Natural disasters," said Nib. ~ Becky Chambers

The enhanced call us misfits - people who don't fir their intended purpose. So maybe you're a misfit too. Doesn't mean you're not deserving. Doesn't mean you shouldn't be here. ~ Becky Chambers

My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up. ~ Becky G

Shamans say that when people get sick, they're experiencing soul loss. And I didn't know what to do to regain my soul. ~ Becky Stark

There mostly is rats an' mice in attics. You gets used to the noise they makes scuttling about. I've got so I don't mind 'em s' long as they don't run over my piller."
"Ugh!" said Sara.
"You gets used to anythin' after a bit," said Becky. "You have to, miss, if you're born a scullery maid. I'd rather have rats than cockroaches."
"So would I," said Sara; "I suppose you might make friends with a rat in time, but I don't believe I should like to make friends with a cockroach. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

One thing I savor about what I do is the relationships that I've earned over the years. Becky Herbst and I have been working together for 17 years. I've seen how everything has evolved over the years, and I've seen all three of her kids being born. Because it's personal, I would have to say I'd like to see him with Elizabeth. ~ Tyler Christopher

I want my fans to understand that what you put into the universe is what you get back. ~ Becky G

I guess that's any relationship. You start with nothing and maybe end with everything. ~ Becky Albertalli

I don't want to be that girl. I want to be the other kind of girl. The Olivia kind. Totally cool with being single. Not even interested in a relationship right now ~ Becky Albertalli

Am I the worst person?"
"Well, no," says Simon. "That would be Voldemort. ~ Becky Albertalli