I Was Born for This Quotes

“Most adults see teenagers as confused kids who don't understand much, while they're the pillars of knowledge and experience and know exactly what is right at all times.
I think the truth is that everyone in the entire world is confused and nobody understands much of anything at all.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“In an otherwise mediocre existence, we chose to feel passion.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“I'm excellent at faking being okay with things, even when inside my brain there is a tiny screaming gnome who is definitely not okay.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“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

“I hate not having anything to hold while I’m not talking. What do you do with your hands?”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“Being a male fan of obscure old bands is, for some reason, more acceptable than being a female fan of a twenty-first-century boy band.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“So what's up with you?' she asks.

'Having a crisis,' I say.

'Same,' she says.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“It carries on. The world, I mean. And we sit and we watch. And I know I did something. Took a risk. Lived a real life.
Me. Angel Rahimi.
Maybe tomorrow I'll do something else. Maybe tomorrow I'll wake up and think about me and what I want. Maybe tomorrow I'll believe in something other than boys on a screen.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“And when he gets to heaven,' he sings....'to Saint Peter he will tell: One more soldier reporting, sir. I've served my time in hell.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“I am not afraid, said Noah
I was born for this".”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“I’m gonna die,’ I say again, as we’re walking out of the tube station towards the O2 arena. ‘I’m gonna die. I’m literally gonna die.’
‘Wouldn’t recommend that,’ says Juliet, as if she’s been on a two-week holiday to Death and gave it two out of five on TripAdvisor.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“If we can talk about anxiety, we can talk about poo. They’re basically the same thing.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“I shrug. ‘Must be nice to just … be a person.’

Rowan stares at me. The flashing lights reflect in his glasses. ‘But we’re gods, Jimmy. What’s better than that?”
― 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

“Shall we start over?' I say.

Juliet shrugs. 'No. This has been an important part of our friendship development.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“We both say, 'Aaaaaay,' at the same time, and I think that means we're friends.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“Their music was good and fun, yes, but they looked kind. They were attractive, but not in a scary, very masculine way that many young girls find intimidating. They had floppy hair and skinny frames, you know, that sort of thing. Which is very fashionable now, but wasn’t really back then. They gave these girls something very safe to love. Something that would never bite them back. In the sixties, everything would bite you back if you were a girl.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“And I still hate myself.
Just FYI.
Still think I'm the worst.
But, you know.
That's not uncommon.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“I'm not afraid, said Noah, I was born for this.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“And the saddest thing about you fans is that you don't care about yourselves. You would give your lives for these boys. They practically keep you alive. But beneath that, and if you took all that away, you fundamentally do not value yourself.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“the romantic comedy I seem to have ended up in as the comic-relief ethnically diverse side character”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“Do you want to talk about it?’ says Rowan.
‘No,’ I say.
But God, I do. I always do.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“And the three of us laugh. And I imagine this must be what it's like to have real friends.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“She definitely wasn't what I thought she was.'

'She wasn't a maniacal fan, you mean?'

'She was a maniacal fan, but I don't think the maniacal fans are what I thought they were. Well, not all of them, anyway.'

'They're just a bit normal, really,' I say.

'Or we're all weird.'

'You can say that again.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“being a fan isn’t always about the thing you’re a fan of. okay, well it sort of is, but there is so much more to it than just going online and screaming that you love something. being a fan has given me people to talk to about the things that i like for the last five years. being a fan has made me better friends online than i’ve ever encountered in real life; it has entered me into a community where people are joined in love and passion and hope and joy and escape. being a fan has given me a reason to wake up, something always to look forward to, something to dream about while i’m trying to fall asleep”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“She knows now. She knows that the smiles, the romance, the sparkly boy band dream - it's all just fantasy. fantasy and lies.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“They gave these girls something very safe to love. Something that would never bite them back. In the sixties, everything would bite you back if you were a girl.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“I mean, everyone's normal, everyone's weird, everyone'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

“Most adults see teenagers as confused kids who don't understand much, while they're the pillars of knowledge and experience and know exactly what is right at all times. I think the truth is that everyone in the entire world is confused and nobody understands much of anything at all.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“But we're gods, Jimmy. What's better than that?”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This