Radio Silence Quotes

“I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“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, Radio Silence

“I stopped speaking. There was no point trying to argue. There was no way she was going to even attempt to listen to me.
They never do, do they? They never even try to listen to you.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Sometimes you can't say the things you're thinking. Sometimes it's too hard.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Hello, I hope somebody is listening...If nobody is listening, am I making any sound at all?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I'm as lost as ever, friends. Can you tell?

I'd like it if someone were to rescue me soon. Oh, I'd like that very much. I'd like that. I'd like that very much indeed.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I'd listen to you for hours.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Radio's trapped in Universe City. And someone's finally heard him. Someone is going to rescue him.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“He knew I was gay for ages," he said, his voice soft. "We both did. Since we were, like, ten or eleven, maybe. As soon as we understood what gay was, we knew that's what I was. We... We used to kiss sometimes, when we were kids. When we were alone. Just little childish kisses, little pecks on the lips because we thought it was fun. We were always... really affectionate with each other. We'd cuddle and... we were kind to each other, rather than nasty like most children. I think we were so caught up in each other that we just... missed all the heteronormative propaganda that's thrust at you when you're that age. We didn't really realize it was weird until - yeah, until we were ten or eleven. But that didn't really stop us. I guess... I guess I always felt like it was more romantic than Aled did. Aled always just treated it like it was something that friends did rather than boyfriends. Aled... he's always been weird. He doesn't care what people think. He doesn't even, like, register the social norms... he's just caught up in his own little world.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Does anyone have any tips for avoiding sinking into the concrete?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“We were so important to each other. We'd tell each other everything and anything. We were each other's first everything. First and only everything.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“We'd found him. We'd helped him. We'd rescued him – we hoped.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“She was everything I wasn't - she was drama, emotion, intrigue, power. I was nothing. Nothing happened to me.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“There's magic under our feet, not just in our eyes.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Theres nothing left for us anymore
Why aren't you listening?
Why aren't you listening to me?
Theres nothing left.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I stayed silent because I had nothing to contribute, which was nothing unusual for me around my school friends, but it felt weird, because I'd forgotten that this was how I normally behaved.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“what happens when you say no to the one thing everyone expects you to be? what happens when you craft your own future, when you nurture that one strange hobby that nobody knows about, when you give yourself to something that truly makes you happy?”
― Alice Oseman

“It wasn't a big deal. It just made me feel weird. I thought I enjoyed all this stuff, but maybe I was an academic at heart after all. I kept peeling of layers of my personality, but I seemed to be going in circles. Everytime I thought I'd worked out what I really enjoyed, I started to second-guess myself. Maybe I just didn't enjoy anything anymore.”
― Alice Oseman