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“Sometimes I think people only pretend to like each other.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“But while it’s good that Dad’s checking in, he’s also drawing everyone’s attention to Charlie, which is pretty much the last thing Charlie wants.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“I don’t feel like myself.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“All friendships are selfish. Maybe if we were all selfless, we would leave each other alone.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“But when you’ve wandered a desert for most of your life, you are overjoyed when it rains.”
― Mark Oshiro, Into the Light

“I’ve had a bad day, sure. But I shouldn’t have taken that out on Tori. I should have stuck with her for at least a little longer.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“Smiles, hugs, years together, holidays, late-night confessions, tears, phone calls, one million words -- they don't mean anything. Becky doesn't care. No one really cares.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“Blood is thicker than water, I suppose. It can also leave a much crueler stain.”
― David Levithan, Take Me with You When You Go

“I want to cry. I want to do anything to stop him from leaving.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“We stay like that, in the cold porch, just for a few minutes, without saying anything, without moving, and then he whispers, ‘You okay?’ and I start to cry, because that’ what happens when people ask me that question.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“I fight down the urge to hysterically laugh.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“I think he chose this outfit purposefully to annoy Mum.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“I didn’t talk to him enough. I didn’t do enough.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“That, or they just don’t care. I can relate to that.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“I wanted to die. I wasn’t allowed to say that, not out loud. The one time I did—and it was only hyperbole—Dad freaked out and threatened to send me to a hospital. “Don’t ever joke about that, Darius.” I didn’t really want to die, anyway. I just wanted to slip into a black hole and never come out.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay

“My point is that a leaf knows it’s important at all moments of its life, even when its broken. People always forget that a rough day, a bad year, doesn’t equal a bad life.”
― Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

“Sometimes, I hate people. This is probably very bad for my mental health.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“You like to act as if you care about nothing and if you carry on like that then you’re going to drown in the abyss you have imagined for yourself.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I thought things might change; that we might start being more open about feelings and stuff.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“Charlie keeps taking out his phone and texting under the table, which kind of starts to piss me off, but I don’t really want to annoy him, as everyone else in the family is doing that already.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“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." - p. 266”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“Not that that matters. I don’t matter. He matters.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“I used to think that difficult was better than boring, but I know better now. There have been a lot of difficult day. There have been too many difficult days.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“And who are you, Victoria Spring?"
I can't think of anything to say because that is what my answer would be really. Nothing. I am a vacuum. I am a void. I am nothing.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I’m tired, though. I’m so tired of defending myself.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter