161 Quotes by Alice Oseman

I swear to God I’m a freak. I mean it. One day I’m going to forget how to wake up.

I don’t remember it happening. I don’t remember anything I’ve done, or why. Everything’s very confused.

Maybe it just takes seventy years to get the hang of being alive.

Why did I do this? Why am I like this?

It must be useful to be smart,” she said and then laughed weakly. She glanced down and suddenly looked very sad. “I’m like, constantly scared I’m going to be a homeless or something. I wish our whole lives didn’t have to depend on our grades.

I’m excellent at faking being okay with things, even when inside my brain there is a tiny screaming gnome who is definitely not okay.

We’re so used to disaster that we accept it. We think we deserve it.

Do you think that, if we were happy for our entire lives, we would die feeling like we’d missed out on something?