Alice Oseman Quotes & Sayings

Everyone's different inside their head. — Alice Oseman

You're an idiot,' said Mum, when I relayed to her the entire situation on Wednesday. 'Not an unintelligent idiot, but a sort of naive idiot who manages to fall into a difficult situation and then can't get out out of it because she's too awkward. — Alice Oseman

I couldn't quite believe how much I seriously loved Aled Last, even if it wasn't in the ideal way that would make it socially acceptable for us to live together until we die. — Alice Oseman

And I'm platonically in love with you."
"That was literally the boy-girl version of 'no homo', but I appreciate the sentiment. — Alice Oseman

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

I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am i making any sound at all? — Alice Oseman

All I know is that I'm here. And I'm alive. And I'm not alone. — Alice Oseman

...it felt like we were friends. Friends who barely knew anything about each other except the other's most private secret. — Alice Oseman

Basking in the light and glory that comes with not giving a damn. — Alice Oseman

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. — Alice Oseman

People move on quicker than I can comprehend. People forget you within days, they take new pictures to put on Facebook and they don't read your messages. They keep on moving forward and shove you to the side because you make more mistakes than you should. — Alice Oseman

I think you should know that I make up a lot of stuff up in my head and then get sad about it. I like to sleep and I like to blog. I am going to die someday. — Alice Oseman

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

It must be useful to be smart," she said and then laughed weakly. She glanced down and suddenly looked very sad. "I'm like, constantly scared I'm going to be a homeless or something. I wish our whole lives didn't have to depend on our grades. — Alice Oseman

This is real, this is me,' I said.
She blinked. 'Did you just quote Camp Rock at me? That's not very pop punk."
'I've gotta go my own way.'
'Okay, firstly, that's High School Musical... — Alice Oseman

I don't know why I made all that fuss the other day. No that's a lie. I do know why. It's because I'm an idiot. — Alice Oseman

You look like you're having a midlife crisis."
"It's not a midlife crisis. It's just a life crisis. — Alice Oseman

I don't know why you won't even look me in the eye. I don't understand anything you're doing or saying, and it's killing me, because I already don't undestand a single thing about me or Michael or Becky or my brother or anything on this shitty planet. — Alice Oseman

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. — Alice Oseman

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. — Alice Oseman

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. — Alice Oseman

Two girls walk past in gargantuan heels and dresses so tight that their skin is spilling out, and one of them says to the other, "Wait, who the fuck is Lewis Carroll?" and in my imagination I pull a gun out of my pocket, shoot them both and then shoot myself. — Alice Oseman

Happiness," he says, "is the price of profound thought."
"Who's that quote from?" I ask.
He winks. "Me. — Alice Oseman

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. — Alice Oseman

He smiled and looked away. 'Sometimes I think we're the same person...but we just got accidentally split into two before we were born. — Alice Oseman

The large majority of teenagers who attend Higgs are soulless, conformist idiots. I have successfully integrated myself into a small group of girls who I consider to be "good people," but sometimes I still feel that I might be the only person with a consciousness, like a video game protagonist, and everyone else are computer-generated extras who have only a select few actions, such as "initiate meaningless conversation" and "hug. — Alice Oseman

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