Film, Book, song quotes

Alice Oseman book edition!!

Solitaire(book)

"But books–they're different. When you watch a film, you're sort of an outsider looking in. With a book–you're right there. You are inside. You are the main character."

"As far as I'm concerned, I came out of the womb spouting cynicism and wishing for rain."

"I don't want people to be worried about me. There's nothing to worry about. 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. I don't want people to interfere. I don't want people in my head, picking out this and that, permanently picking up the broken pieces of me."

"There's a time and a place for being normal. For most people, normal is their default setting. But for some, like you and me, normal is something we have to bring out, like putting on a suit for a posh dinner."

"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."

"School literally doesn't care about you unless you're good at writing stuff down or you're good at memorising or you can solve bloody maths equations. What about the other important things in life?"

"Nobody is honest, nobody is real. You can't trust anyone or anything. Emotions are humanity's fatal disease. And we're all dying."

"Basking in the light and glory that comes with not giving a damn."

"We're so used to disaster that we accept it. We think we deserve it."

"I don't understand why you can't accept things like this. If you can't accept things you don't understand, then you'll spend your life questioning everything. Then you'll have to live out your life in your own head."

"There comes a point, though, when you can't keep looking after other people any more. You have to start looking after yourself."

Radio silence (book)

"I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?"

"Everyone's different inside their head."

"I wonder sometimes whether you've exploded already, like a star, and what I'm seeing you is three million years into the past, and you're not here anyore. How can we be together here, now, when you are so far away. When you are so far ago? I'm shouting so loudly, but you never turn around to see me. Perhaps it is I who have already exploded. Either way, we are going to bring beautiful things into the universe."

"Being clever was, after all, my primary source of self-esteem. I'm a very sad person, in all senses of the word, but at least I was going to get into university."

"I wish I could be as subtle and beautiful. All I know how to do is scream."

"Everything's better under the stars, I suppose. If we get another life after we die, I'll meet you there, old sport..."

"Hello. I hope somebody is listening."

"I wasn't sure how anyone could mistake an Indian girl for a British-Ethiopian girl, but there it is. Gotta love white people."

Heartstopper (book 1,2,3)

"Can you please get a photo of Harry Greene in a skirt? It's urgent."

"There's this idea that if you're not straight, you HAVE to tell all your family and friends immediately, like you owe it to them. But you don't. You don't have to do anything until you're ready."

"I know. But this is my point. this whole deal with you and Nick being out to people... I think you need to stop worrying about anyone else feelings.

"One "sorry" doesn't make up for all the thing you said. So CONGRATS on your incredibly difficult realisation that gay people actually do have feelings and have a nice life."

"This is England, not Antarctica. Deal with it."

"You can't tell whether people are gay by what they look like. And gay or straight aren't the only two options."

"I like Charlie Spring! In a romantic way not just a friend way!"

Loveless (book)

"Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important."

"In the end, that was the problem with romance. It was so easy to romanticise romance because it was everywhere. It was in music and on TV and in filtered Instagram photos. It was in the air, crisp and alive with fresh possibility. It was in falling leaves, crumbling wooden doorways, scuffed cobblestones and fields of dandelions. It was in the touch of hands, scrawled letters, crumpled sheets and the golden hour. A soft yawn, early morning laugher, shoes lined up together dy the door. Eyes across a dance floor. I could see it all, all the time, all around, but when I got closer, I found nothing was there."

"She's happy with who she is. Maybe it's not the heteronormative dream that she grew up wishing for, but... knowing who you are and loving yourself is so much better than that, I think."

"The aromantic and asexual spectrums weren't just straight lines. They

were radar charts with at least a dozen different axes."

"I don't think I need to try everything to know I don't like it."

"You know why people pair up into couples? Because being a human is fucking terrifying. But it's a hell of a lot easier if you're not doing it by yourself."

"I'm at uni for three months and suddenly I'm not straight any more."

note from zani- I just really love this author and how she deals with modern issues and creates a fictional yet factual reality for her characters. Some of the books have really touching and sad moments for them people who like late night sobs!! (solitare and radio silence are the saddest). I really recomend her and she should get more popular.