The best Quotes by Alice Oseman

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.

Solitaire

Books Reading

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

Heartstopper - Volume One

Homosexuality & LGBTQ+

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

Heartstopper - Volume Two

Charlie Spring

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

Radio Silence

Everyone's different inside their head.

Radio Silence

Head

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Charlie: "You didn't have to do that. I'm used to people saying stuff about me."
Nick: "No. But you shouldn't have to be. People shouldn't be saying stuff about you in the first place. You shouldn't have to put up with anything like that."

Nick Nelson in Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 7

Bullying

Do you ever feel like you're only doing things because everyone else is? And you're scared to change?

Nick Nelson in Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 5

Tao Xu: "If he is even slightly mean to you...-"
Charlie: "...you'll murder him."
Tao Xu: "I was going to say I'd send him a strongly worded DM, but murder's fine too."

Tao Xu in Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 5

Murder

I know people have hurt you. And you feel like I'd be better off without you, but I need you to know that my life is way better because I met you.

Nick Nelson in Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 8

You clearly didn't get hugged much as a child, but if you're craving human contact that badly, you could just say so.

Tao Xu in Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 7

Charlie: "They all probably think I'm this, like, gay nerd."
Nick: "Well, you kind of are a gay nerd."

Nick Nelson in Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 7

Nick: "Did I forget something?"
Charlie: "Yeah."

Charlie Spring in Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 4

I just think I need some time to figure this out.

Nick Nelson in Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 4

Nick: "It's called bisexuality... if you've heard of that?"
Nick's mother: "I have heard of that. I wasn't born in the 18th century."

Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 8

Charlie: "I'm sorry."
Nick: "No. You're not allowed to say the 's' word."

Nick Nelson in Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 7

I'm just so sorry I ran away last night. I was just freaking out because... I was confused and surprised and, like, honestly I'm having a proper, full-on gay crisis.

Nick Nelson in Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 4

Tao: "You should talk to him."
Nick: "Yeah, so should you."
Tao: "No. I'm gonna stay pissed off with him for a bit longer."

Tao Xu in Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 8

Nick: "Stop picking on people for no reason!"
Harry: "Aw! Are you gay for them?"
Tao: "Classic Harry. Resorting to homophobia when you can't think of a good comeback. Life must be really hard when your only personality trait is rich bell-end."

Tao Xu in Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 5

Homophobia

If you want my attention that badly, why don't you throw something at me again? Like your last remaining brain cell?

Tao Xu in Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 6

Wow. I feel so sorry for the popular rugby lad who's almost getting picked on because he dares to hang out with someone below his popularity status.

Tao Xu in Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 5

Charlie: "How do I stop liking someone? Specifically, a straight guy."
Mr Ajayi: "A question for the ages."

Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 1

It's hard to be confident when they all see me as a stereotypical gay boy who can't do sports.

Charlie Spring in Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 4

As your token straight friend, it's my duty to remind you that sometimes people are straight.

Tao Xu in Heartstopper - Season 1

Charlie: "All my friends are showing up in a bit to watch me play."
Nick: "All your friends?"
Charlie: "Tao, Isaac and Elle."

Charlie Spring in Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 4

Clearly, I need to be here to get tips on how to be good at rugby.

Charlie Spring in Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 4

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend... keeping your f*cking mouth shut.

Banksy in Cut It Out

Reading

I am not gay. Although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.

Kurt Cobain

Homosexuality & LGBTQ+Homophobia

The heart can be tough to change, but the mind can be tough to persuade.

Grand Pabbie in Frozen -

Heart Mind vs. Heart Head

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Darkness

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

Hogwarts

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Falling in love

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty Love declerations

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Cornelia Funke

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

Pain

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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