Kate in Waiting Quotes

“I am so platonically in love with Anderson Walker, it makes my brain hurt.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting: A YA Coming-of-Age Rom-Com About Two Best Friends and One Complicated Crush

“Maybe some songs are just unruinable.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting: A YA Coming-of-Age Rom-Com About Two Best Friends and One Complicated Crush

“I know exactly what you mean.- It’s the most underrated sentence on earth.

Translation: no, you’re not weird. Even your weird stuff isn’t weird. You make sense.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting

“Okay, anyone who says “me likey”? Should be punched in the balls. That is my hill to fucking die on.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting: A YA Coming-of-Age Rom-Com About Two Best Friends and One Complicated Crush

“We’re given a hero’s welcome by the dogs as soon as we walk through the door. Charles and Camilla, pupper and doggo, respectively.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting: A YA Coming-of-Age Rom-Com About Two Best Friends and One Complicated Crush

“Once, Andy looked at Noah, apropos of nothing, and asked, “Are straight boys okay? Do they need help?” The age-old question.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting: A YA Coming-of-Age Rom-Com About Two Best Friends and One Complicated Crush

“Maybe he followed us?” I slide my feet forward on the tiles. “Oh my God. He fell in love with us and followed us home from camp.” “WAIT—”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting: A YA Coming-of-Age Rom-Com About Two Best Friends and One Complicated Crush

“It's weird how much you have to hold back when you're secretly in love with someone. But then again, the whole point of love is getting close enough that you no longer have to hold back all the...gross parts. I'm pretty sure at some point love makes room for the gross parts.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting

“It’s the kind of moment that makes my stomach twist. I can’t stand watching people get embarrassed, even strangers. Even fictional strangers. I honestly can’t watch certain TV shows. I get this visceral secondhand shame reaction. It’s like my brain can’t tell where someone else’s humiliation ends and mine begins.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting

“Gay people have to love Oreos now,” explains Anderson.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting: A YA Coming-of-Age Rom-Com About Two Best Friends and One Complicated Crush

“Who’s ready for that kiss?” Um, apparently Mr. D is. Because now he’s playing that “Kiss Me” song, the one with the line about milky twilight that Anderson swears is about semen.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting: A YA Coming-of-Age Rom-Com About Two Best Friends and One Complicated Crush

“He was just telling me about his dogs, and how they’re named after the royal family.” Madison laughs. “How cute is that?” “It’s cute . . . ish.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting: A YA Coming-of-Age Rom-Com About Two Best Friends and One Complicated Crush

“Heeeyyy.” He peers into the dining room. “Am I too late?”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting: A YA Coming-of-Age Rom-Com About Two Best Friends and One Complicated Crush

“Like I could ever - in a million years - make it through this moment without smiling.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting

“It feels like standing on the doorstep without a key to your own home.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting

“They should make a word for the mix of pride and envy you get when someone you love is really good at a thing. It’s like you want them to win so badly it feels personal. But also the thought of them winning makes you almost sick with longing.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting

“And somehow, even though we're at a fuckball game, I feel completely at home. Which is a feeling I only really ever get when I'm with Anderson. It's one of those things I can't say out loud, because people will just think I'm in love with him or something. But it's not a romantic feeling at all.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting

“Okay, remember when you and Ryan tried to teach me sports?'...
Noah nods gravely. 'That was so sad.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting

“Okay.” Brandie emerges from my closet, holding my brown ankle boots in one hand, and an armload of my shortest skirts in the other. “So, Kate, for you, I’m thinking skirt, boots, tights, and a jacket?”

“No shirt?” Raina asks. “Nude on top?”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting

“It’s so easy to imagine how we’ll retell this moment. Our first kiss. The lights went out. We held hands. Used our phones. Even as it’s happening, it’s like it already happened. That same preemptive nostalgia feeling. Like it’s a story we’ll tell in some not-so-distant future.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting

“It’s like when your scene partner’s supposed to cut you off and overlap your line, but they don’t. That same quiet beat of panic and awkwardness.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting

“My favorite is always the halfway point, where Andy says, “Okay, whatever, I’m done. I’m over it.” But then, a split second later: “Okay, but ALSO, can I just say—”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting

“I’m just so glad Matthew’s finally making real friends here. I thought he was going to spend the whole summer just playing that animal island game.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting: A YA Coming-of-Age Rom-Com About Two Best Friends and One Complicated Crush

“And we kiss,” Matt says softly. Suddenly his lips are on mine.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting: A YA Coming-of-Age Rom-Com About Two Best Friends and One Complicated Crush

“And the same applies to Ryan’s room with girls, or at least it would if Ryan ever had girls over.”
― Becky Albertalli, Kate in Waiting: A YA Coming-of-Age Rom-Com About Two Best Friends and One Complicated Crush