Yes No Maybe So Quotes

“We might give it our all and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, don't you think?”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“It’s not about waiting for the good parts of history. We’re the ones who have to make them happen. We have to draw the timeline ourselves.” “Yeah, well. Right now, that just feels like a fuckton of pointless work.” “But the work itself is the point. You keep doing it, because otherwise, how do you keep from feeling helpless? It’s like those sharks that keep swimming or they die,” I say. “It’s about the act of resisting. Waking up every day and deciding not to give up.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“I wish I knew why some people keep holding hands and why some people stop.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“Some people are meant to change history. And some people are meant to change out of their vomity interview clothes.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“I peer around the room—which is so packed with earnest-looking college kids, you’d think this was an Apple Store.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“The longer you put good things off, the longer they’re there waiting for you.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“What’s wrong with slowmance? That should be a word. It’s like a slow romance. A way to let the romantic moments linger.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“It’s ridiculous. Women are problematic if they show too much skin and problematic if they don’t show enough?”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“I will never understand why adults find the passing of time to be so unexpected. Time is literally what life is made of. But it’s like a ritual; each time my mom chats with a friend or family member she hasn’t seen in a while, they spend half the time talking about how fast time goes, and the other half promising to see each other soon, which they almost never do.”
― Aisha Saeed, Yes No Maybe So

“But I’m not talking about the world righting itself. I’m talking about us righting the world.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“There's nothing quite like the futility of being seventeen in an election year.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“The truth is, it's a weird time to be coming of age. The world is really messy right now. And it's so hard to be twelve or thirteen or fifteen or seventeen, when you're old enough to get it, but... you can't vote.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“Now holler at me if you’re ready to have a Rossumly awesome time. State District Forty is about to get hella canvassed, and I am so here for it.” He pounds a fist in the air.

It’s like watching your oldest, cringiest teacher try to win over the class with slang they googled during their planning period. And I’m pretty sure Gabe being only twenty-three makes it worse.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“Even Drew’s über-Republican parents claim to love Nolan, just like they love Felipe. I can’t ever wrap my head around that. How can you love your son’s gay friends, but dick them over every time you vote?”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“When has anyone in the history of earth ever made a meaningful connection while mingling? It’s like, hey, let’s have only the worst parts of a conversation—the approach, the small talk, the trying-to-figure-out-when-and-how-to-disengage part. It’s not that I dislike being around people. I just wish we could skip to the sitting-in-comfortable-silence part, or the inside-jokes part, or even the we-both-love-The-Office-so-let’s-overanalyze-it part.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“But I don’t let him finish. I don’t let him say another word. I lean forward and kiss him. He startles, and then he wraps his arms around me and kisses me back. His lips are gentle and warm. He is mint and lemons.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“Can I hug you?” he asks softly. I nod. He puts his arms around me. I rest my head in the crook of his neck. He smells like lemons and mint. For the first time in a long time, I don’t feel alone.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“In the Mario Bros. games there’s the big bad—Bowser, who is this evil mega-turtle,” Jamie finally says. “And they also have these Koopa Troopas—little turtles that are weirdly cute but completely evil. Bowser became president in 2016. But I guess I didn’t really think about how it’s not just about him—there’s hundreds of Koopa Troopas everywhere to watch out for too.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“But the work itself is the point. You keep doing it, because otherwise, how do you keep from feeling helpless?”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“History’s a long game. It’s the longest long game.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“No one person can fix it all, my father says. All our actions are little drops that collect into a groundswell for change. It’s the only way most change happens. Ordinary people doing everything they can.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“Days off are as important as days on, bug. You have to recharge or burn out.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“You sound like my grandma. She always says that there are at least two good people for every bad person in the world.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“Waking up every day and deciding not to give up.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“Dark clouds hang heavy and low. It’s comforting when the outside world reflects how you feel on the inside.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“I kiss him instead.”
― Aisha Saeed, Yes No Maybe So

“Time is literally what life is made of.”
― Aisha Saeed, Yes No Maybe So

“The longer you put good things off, the longer they're waiting for you.”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“Oranges don't have nipples," says Sophie”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So

“We might give it our all and crash and burn.” I take a step closer to him. “But we might win. We might actually change things. And maybe that makes it still worth going for, don’t you think?”
― Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So