The Upside of Unrequited

by Becky Albertalli

There’s just something about this kind of moment—this tiny thread connecting me to a total stranger. It’s the kind of thing that makes the universe feel smaller. I really love that.

“No, how do you make friends in a bathroom?”

Amizade do banheiro da balada é a melhor que tem. Impossivel ela nunca ter vivido isso. Eu deve muitas das minhas melhores conversas às melhores amigas por 5 min que eu tive!!!

I wonder if it’s possible to get drunk without drinking.

I would say YES

I don’t entirely understand how anyone gets a boyfriend. Or a girlfriend. It just seems like the most impossible odds. You have to have a crush on the exact right person at the exact right moment. And they have to like you back. A perfect alignment of feelings and circumstances. It’s almost unfathomable that it happens as often as it does.

Because once you’ve shared a uterus, there’s no such thing as a secret.

Eu, uma pessoa que dividiu um utero, digo que sim, há segredos

that’s the thing I’m most afraid of. Not mattering. Existing in a world that doesn’t care who I am. It’s this whole other level of aloneness. And maybe it’s a twin thing. I have never truly been alone in the world. I think that’s why I fear it.

I am a feminist. But I don’t know. I’m seventeen, and I just want to know what it feels like to kiss someone.

Love doesn’t kill friendship. It definitely doesn’t kill family.

We talk about the things we like, rather than the things we are.

It would be nice if I were the kind of person who didn’t require a battalion of wingwomen to make this happen.

Netflix means not having to suck in your stomach or think of anything smart or adorable to say. It means a whole night of not wondering what people think about you. No alcohol, and no flirtation, and no confusion, and every organ calm and settled.

I always want opposite things.

there’s this awfulness that comes when a guy thinks you like him. It’s as if he’s fully clothed and you’re naked in front of him.

when you’re that pretty, you can date anyone, and people know you picked the geek on purpose. Like, you could have had the hot guy, but you didn’t want him. But when you’re a fat geek who likes another fat geek, everyone assumes you’re settling.

Maybe my company is even better than making out—which is pretty much my goal as a human being, honestly.

twin telepathy.

Bode

there’s something really badass about truly, honestly not caring what people think about you.

I don’t even think they worry about me around boys. So, that’s a little sad.

I can relate

I’ve never felt quite so seventeen.

Hahahah sad but true

Maybe he has a fake ID. Maybe everyone does except me. I feel like I’m in a movie.

Me through high school felling like superbad mcloving

But I guess that’s the thing about being seventeen. You never know what you’ll do until you do it.

And sometimes you regret later and can't sleep thinking of how stupid you were

I wish I were the kind of person who could just admit it out loud.

I don’t think my heart wants to stay in my chest.

Ela devia ter beijado o Will when she got the chance ai depois, agr apaixonada pelo reid, investir neleee!!! The invention of CASUAL saved human race ! Kiss them both but keep kissing the one you like... Problem solve! (já to com essa resolucao desde o capitulo 3 não da pra ficar enrolando assim, familia... Mas tbm não estou em posicao de julga-la pq qndo eu tinha 16 era esaa tristeza mesmo, mas Molly baby, no final da tudo certo… o importante é apoveitar… por isso beijaaaaa)

I guess Olivia’s up. And Reid’s sleeping bag is empty, too.

Story of my life ; so many memories i can't; this physically hurts me

As if the Molly makeouts are such a hot commodity.

U have to think of them as if they areeee!

As if guys are lining up at my door.

They line up in one or two doors, you will only find peace by acknowledging your value!

It’s that easy for Olivia. Maybe this is what life is like for most girls.

I know the feeling way too well

I have to admit, he has this ability to totally unsettle me.

É pq ele é bonito

I so want to be your friend.”

Physical pain literaally … Fora q gostar de alguém não te impede de beijar… n eh como se ele estivesse em um relacionamento

“Cass, I’m sorry, okay?”

Eu nao pedia desculpa nao.

Hey, we could try this horizontally.

Cringe mas ri

It’s funny. I didn’t know I could feel like myself in this kind of moment. But I do. I feel extremely me.

Aaaa já quero irrrr

I was an utter asshole to Cassie,

Qndo?

I squeeze my eyes shut. This conversation. I cannot.

Melhor q a iniciativa seja da sua mãe, meu! É chato ter que ir falar "Oi mãe, vou começar a tomar pílula" e ela te encarar tipo, "por que?"

we should acknowledge that it’s a possibility.”

Go Patty!

There’s something about exes. I’ve never had an ex-anything. The whole idea of it seems intolerable. Falling out of love. Becoming strangers.

Falling in love is terrifying.

You said I was ditching you for Mina.”

Not the sane thing as replacing tho

“Change is fucking hard.

that’s the thing about change. It’s so painfully normal.

“Well, of course you don’t need one,” Nadine says. “But it’s okay to want one.”

Love is worth wanting.”