161 Quotes by Alice Oseman

I don’t want people to be worried about me. There’s nothing to worry about. I don’t want people to try and understand why I’m the way I am, because I should be the first person to understand that. And I don’t understand yet. I don’t want people to interfere. I don’t want people in my head, picking out this and that, permanently picking up the broken pieces of me.

I mean, everyone’s normal, everyones’s weird, everyones’s just trying to deal with their own life and keep calm and carry on. And hold on to something that’ll keep them going.

YOU’RE AN IDIOT,” said Mum, when I relayed to her the entire situation on Wednesday. “Not an unintelligent idiot, but a sort of naive idiot who manages to fall into a difficult situation and then can’t get out of it because she’s too awkward.

Happiness,” he says, “is the price of profound thought.

This is England, not Antarctica. Deal with it.

Isn’t that an excellent name for a cat? Steve.

It took quite a lot of effort not to say sorry for saying sorry.

There comes a point, though, when you can’t keep looking after other people any more. You have to start looking after yourself.

Because, like, we’re all waiting for something to change. Patience can kill you.