161 Quotes by Alice Oseman

I just. Loved. Love.

He smiled and looked away. ‘Sometimes I think we’re the same person... but we just got accidentally split into two before we were born.

According to Pip, the hallmarks of realising you’re a lesbian were: firstly, getting a little intensely obsessed with a girl, mistaking it for admiration, and sometimes thinking about holding their hand, and secondly, having a subconscious fixation on certain female cartoon villains.

I really don’t do anything unless I actually want to do it. And most of the time I don’t want to do anything at all.

I actually think that a lot of people are very beautiful, and maybe even more beautiful when they are not aware of it themselves.

Currently with us in the room is an anorexic girl reading The Hunger Games and the irony of this is too cruel to laugh at.

Family means nothing,” she said, and I knew she believed it. “You have no obligation to love your family. It wasn’t your choice to be born.

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.

If this is the best time of my life, I might as well end it immediately.