From a plot perspective, what I finally found...... Quote by "Becky Albertalli"

From a plot perspective, what I finally found for my touchstone was that I consider 'Upside' to be a loose telling of Jane Austen's 'Emma,' or 'Clueless.'
— Becky Albertalli

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Other Quotes by "Becky Albertalli"

My book, 'Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,' is a gay love story. It's also a story about friendship. Quite honestly, it's also probably a 320-page product placement for Oreos.
— Becky Albertalli

Tags: book, gay, friendship, love

And sometimes that's just what happens. People grow apart.
— Becky Albertalli The Upside of Unrequited

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

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'Simon' was always a word-of-mouth book. When it came out in 2015, I don't know that anybody thought that 'Simon' could be mainstream. Publisher Harper Collins loved it in-house, but it wasn't a lead title. Nobody is more surprised than me that it's a film. It's the little book that could.
— Becky Albertalli

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Love is bumping along together with the people in your life and making mistakes and trying to make them right by virtue of the fact that these are people you actually love; you care about them enough to muddle through it with them.
— Becky Albertalli

Tags: you, love-is, life, love