Leah on the Offbeat Quotes

“Imagine going about your day knowing someone’s carrying you in their mind. That has to be the best part of being in love- the feeling of having a home in some else’s brain.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“I can’t fuck your life, I’m monogamously fucking my own life.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“I hate when assholes have talent. I want to live in a world where good people rule at everything and shitty people suck at everything.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“I can't help it. I'm a Slytherin."

And I'm the worst kind of Slytherin. I'm the kind who's so stupidly in love with a Gryffindor, she can't even function. I'm the Draco from some shitty Drarry fic that the author abandoned after four chapters.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“I swear, people can’t wrap their minds around the concept of a fat girl who doesn’t diet. Is it that hard to believe I might actually like my body?”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“Mr. Spier, memorizing the Hamilton soundtrack is not going to save you on the AP Euro exam.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“Leah.' Mom shakes her head. 'You've got to stop doing this.'
'Doing what?'
'Burning everything to the ground whenever something goes wrong.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“You can't just like Harry Potter. You have to be balls-out obsessed with it.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“I used to think boners literally pointed in the direction of the person you're attracted to, like a compass. That would be helpful. Mortifying as fuck, but at least it would clarify things.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“I hate when writers make Draco sweet. Sorry, but Draco's a bitch. Own it. I mean, yeah, he's a ball of mush underneath, but you have to earn it with him.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“Apparently, Simon’s dad asked the tour guide at Duke to “please elaborate on the campus gay scene.” “I wanted to fucking die,” Simon told me.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“There's this tug in my chest. Because when Bram says Simon's name, he pronounces every part of it. Like it's worth being careful over.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“It's like it doesn't even matter if I like my body, because there's always someone there to remind me I shouldn't.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“I'm basically your resident fat Slytherin Rory Gilmore.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“She probably thinks Troye Sivan's songs are about girls.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“RIP Leah Burke. She died of acute awkwardosis.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“I am such a dick. Like, I'm an actual flaccid penis of a person.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“But it sucks when life moves along without you. Sometimes I feel left out even when life's moving along with me.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“It was unicorns vomiting sunbeams.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“But I know what it's like to be not good enough, in some bone-deep fundamental way.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“if Katie Leung sweetly rejecting Daniel Radcliffe in a Scottish accent wasn't your sexual awakening, I don't even want to know you.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“And in that moment--for a split second-- I feel it. How short that is. How soon everything changes. It's strange, because good-byes are a thing I can understand intellectually, but they almost never feel real. Which makes it hard to brace for impact. I don't know how to miss people when they're standing right in front of me.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“I feel stronger when I look cute.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“Then her hand brushed close to mine, and my organs rearranged themselves.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“Did you know I had an ultrasound the day before my prom?"

"That's . . . cool?"

"It was cool! It was the big one, too. That's when I found out your gender."

"Gender is a social construction.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“She makes me want to shove my hand into my chest and rip my own heart out.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“Fuck. Fuckstravaganza.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“That has to be the best part of being in love—the feeling of having a home in someone else’s brain.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“I feel like a campfire, like I could burn for days.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“Can ambiguous social situations kindly go fuck themselves?”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat