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He tells me to pick the music. I’m not sure if he knows that handing me his iPod is like handing me the window to his soul.
— Becky Albertalli Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Tags: music, love, friendship

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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
Tags: time, relationships, distance
You can't just like Harry Potter. You have to be balls-out obsessed with it.
— Becky Albertalli Leah on the Offbeat
Tags: truth
'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
Tags: know, book, loved, me
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
Tags: finally, found, telling, perspective
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