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101 " I don't think I need to try everything to know I don't like it. "
― Alice Oseman , Loveless
102 " Bedrooms are windows to the soul. "
― Alice Oseman , Radio Silence
103 " ...it felt like we were friends. Friends who barely knew anything about each other except the other's most private secret. "
104 " 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? "
― Alice Oseman , Solitaire
105 " Every time I thought I’d worked out what I really enjoyed, I started to second-guess myself. Maybe I just didn’t enjoy anything anymore. "
106 " Nobody is honest, nobody is real. You can't trust anyone or anything. Emotions are humanity's fatal disease. And we're all dying. "
107 " You're... it's hard to explain. It's like, if you had to provide evidence for soul mates, everyone would pick you two. "
― Alice Oseman , Nick and Charlie
108 " This is England, not Antarctica. Deal with it. "
― Alice Oseman , Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)
109 " I'm at uni for three months and suddenly I'm not straight any more. "
110 " The aromantic and asexual spectrums weren’t just straight lines. Theywere radar charts with at least a dozen different axes. "
111 " i'm platonically in love with you "
112 " I don’t think age has much to do with adulthood. "
113 " You probably think Aled Last and I are going to fall in love or something. Since he is a boy and I am a girl. I just wanted to say- we don't. That's all. "
114 " [...] and I realised that it was because what I was doing wasn't 'giving up'. It was acceptance. "
115 " Are you wearing that?' he [Daniel] said. I looked down. I was wearing my batman onesie.'Yes,' I said, 'Problem?''So many,' he said, turning around. 'So many problems. "
116 " Friends are automatically classed as 'less important' than romantic partners. I'd never questioned that. It was just the way the world was. I guess I'd always felt that friendship just couldn't compete with what a partner offered, and that I'd never really experience real love until I found romance.But if that had been true, I probably wouldn't have felt like this. "
117 " There comes a point, though, when you can't keep looking after other people any more. You have to start looking after yourself. "
118 " We’re so used to disaster that we accept it. We think we deserve it. "
119 " 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. *slams the door* - Charlie Spring "
― Alice Oseman , Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)
120 " Do you think that, if we were happy for our entire lives, we would die feeling like we'd missed out on something? "