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“When I was thirteen, I got this award at school … I got the highest CAT test scores out of anyone who’d ever taken them at our school …” One of his legs was bobbing up and down. He shook his head and laughed. “And I was so… I thought I was so smart. I thought I was the smartest person in the whole world.”

He shook his head.

“But now … I’m just … when you get to this age, you realise that you’re not anyone special after all.”

He was right. I wasn’t special.

It’s … all I’ve got,” he said. “This is the only special thing about me.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“She had taken his private space - his home - and destroyed it. She took everything he loved and ruined it.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Old and rusty, aching and sleepy. Wandering through the city, lost, circling, alone. No gears left in my heart, no code whirring in my brain. Just kinetic energy, being pushed gently onward by other forces—sound, light, dust waves, the quakes. I'm as lost as ever, friends. Can you tell?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I don't like other people inside my room because I'm terrified they're going to uncover one of my secrets, like my fan art habits or my internet history or the fact that I one hundred per cent still sleep with a teddy bear.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence