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“Now, I am the reason no one gets to smile again.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“I am so tired I have to convince myself to take each breath.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“Sometimes I wish I hadn’t said that, now I wish I’d said, Tell me more, help me understand.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“We all push sometimes, just to make sure someone is on the other side, pushing back.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, More Than We Can Tell

“It's so weird how that can be, how you could have a night that's the worst in your life, but to everybody else it's just an ordinary night.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“Sometimes, all you have to do is tell people the truth. They won't believe you. After that, they'll leave you alone.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“It's okay not to be okay. Most people don't think so, but I do. It has to be okay to not be okay all the time”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World

“A friend of mine with older children likes to say that at the beginning of your children's lives, you are teaching them. But there comes a point in life when they begin to teach you.”
― Arvin Ahmadi, How It All Blew Up

“I guess sometimes you don't know what you want because you don't know it exists.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, One for the Murphys

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Sometimes the truth is a secret you're keeping from yourself because living a lie is easier.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“But there's only so much rejection you can take before you finally give up and stop trying.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Letters to the Lost

“I wish that everything was different. I wish that I was a part of something. I wish that anything I said mattered, to anyone. I mean, let's face it: would anybody even notice if I disappeared tomorrow?”
― Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

“I don’t think age has much to do with adulthood.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Dad says I’m a late bloomer.'

'Maybe. Or maybe you’re blooming now, and you’re just not the kind of flower he was expecting.”
― Alex Gino, Rick

“Sometimes i think if nobody spoke to me, i'd never speak again.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Why did I do this? Why am I like this?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I got four A grades [...] I expected to be happy about it. I expected to be jumping up and down and crying from joy.
But I didn't feel any of that. It just wasn't disappointment.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don’t know a damn thing.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Sometimes you can't say the things you're thinking. Sometimes it's too hard.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“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.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“[…] When you get to this age, you realize that you’re not anyone special after all.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“The quiet lets my thoughts roam free, and they don’t travel in happy directions.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Letters to the Lost

“How could we expect others to feel our pain or hear our cries for help when all we could do was whisper?”
― Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You

“It’s hard to search for someone like yourself when you’re not even sure who you are.”
― Robin Gow, A Million Quiet Revolutions

“Anything we write is a reflection of who we are.”
― Abdi Nazemian, The Chandler Legacies

“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.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“Maybe it just takes seventy years to get the hang of being alive.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“There comes a point, though, when you can't keep looking after other people any more. You have to start looking after yourself.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire