Top 500 Ali Hazelwood Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “The abbess once told me that the real problems are rarely the ones we spend our time worrying about.”

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452. “Ah. Lowe doesn’t sleep. At all.” “Never? Is it a Were thing? An Alpha thing?” She shakes her head. “He has pneumonia.”

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453. “What a good elephant.”

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454. “Why are you always so quiet? If you smiled more, people would think you like them, and then they’d actually want to spend time with you. I wish I was as cold as you. I love that you just don’t care about stuff.”

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455. “Can I play with you?” She eyes my laptop eagerly. “No.” Her pretty mouth curves into a pout. “Why?” “Because.” What are we even going to do? Long division?”

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456. “Expiration dates are for the weak.”

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457. “Maybe my brain is broken.” -Olive.”

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458. “And yet it was as if the space she was in, the whole campus, the entire city was transformed by knowing that he was back.”

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459. “Loneliness is here. It moulds our souls, but also our bodies.”

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460. “It seemed impossible that someone might look at Adam’s scientific accomplishments and find them lacking. That he could ever be anything less than the best at what he did. Was that why he was so severe in his judgment of others? Because he’d been taught to set the same impossible standards for himself?”

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461. “Grad school really screwed us up, didn’t it?”

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462. “You should punish her.” I snort out a laugh. “Yes, Lowe. Spank me and take away my TV privileges.”

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463. “Cute, how she thinks he’d ever let her out of his sight.”

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464. “He was her servant. Anything she wanted, Eli would do it. He had to slide his hands behind his back, trap them between himself and the wall, just to stop himself from touching and gripping and taking.”

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465. “I wonder whether he’s considered handsome in Sweden, or just your run-of-the-mill ordinary guy. Is it a favorable exchange rate – a Stockholm three translating to a US ten?”

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466. “She wouldn’t admit it – she might not even realise it herself, but she’s the kind of person who would feel beholden to me. She would think I need her. When what I really need is for her to be happy, whether it’s with me, or alone, or with someone else.”

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467. “I arch an eyebrow. “Weren’t we talking about your Baudelaire affair?” “I don’t really remember what happened. We – Wait.” “What?” I lean closer, wide eyed. “Kasparov was there.” “The former world champion?” “Yes. He wanted to play with me.” “And?” “What do you mean, and? I went to play.” “Let me get this straight. You chose playing chess with an old man over getting laid?” He looks at me like he’s a cloistered nun and I’m explaining Bitcoin to him. “Did you get that it was Kasparov?”

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468. “Now that I think about it, this place hasn’t been cold in days.”

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469. “You know,” he continues casually, “I like it better when women stick to their own tournaments. I find that there’s a natural order to things.”

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470. “I make to leave, but a finger slides in the belt loop of my jeans and pulls me back. Close.” “Hey,” he says, soft. “I need to know what you need, Scarlett. And whether I can provide it for you.”

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471. “She is not you, Jamie.”

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472. “Adam rolled his eyes, clearly amused. “Olive, this is my friend and collaborator. Dr. Tom Benton.”

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473. “My hair, eyes, sometimes even my soul, are black-hole dark. And here he is, Martian red and ocean blue.”

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474. “His calm acceptance of her anxiety had the exact opposite effect of Dr. Aslan’s enthusiasm: it relaxed her.”

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475. “Some nights, when he’s walking past her door, he has to whisper to himself: “Keep going.”

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476. “He is offensively, uniquely, devastatingly handsome.”

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477. “But somehow, when I really needed him, he was always around.”

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478. “It hurt less, feeling alone among people who were never supposed to be my own.”

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479. “I let out a laugh – a real one, my first since the tournament started, maybe even since Easton left. Emil stares with a kind, curious expression. “He has no chance,” he says cryptically.”

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480. “Elsie?” My name, again. Said like the universe made that word for him alone.”

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481. “And then starts spreading peanut butter on the bread, like he’s settled an important matter and now needs a snack.”

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482. “He sighs deeply, as though my inability to read his mind is an inconvenience, but one he will try to deal with out of the grace of his heart.”

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483. “Listen, Jamie, date us both. I can deal with that. And then choose the better guy.” I huffed. “You seem awfully certain that I’d choose you.” “Oh, sweetheart. I really am.” He leaned closer and my heart threatened to detonate. I could feel his breath against my cheek. His palm, wide open, climbing up my inner thigh. Heat licking through my spine. “I’d make sure of it.”

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484. “Enough, she repeated to herself. What you have now, it will have to be enough.”

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485. “Who needs to know how to say ‘I love you’ in every language? People barely need it in one. Sometimes not even in one.”

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486. “You’re right. It’s not easy. But not for any reason you think.”

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487. “I’d rather drink a can of Axe body spray while feral raccoons feast on my exposed bone marrow than sit across from this twat.”

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488. “Out of all the people I’ve met, the things I’ve wanted, the places I’ve been, none has ever felt as necessary as you do. Because I love you. I love you in a way I didn’t think I was capable of. I love you because you showed me how to fall in love. And I don’t regret it, Rue. I wouldn’t want it any other way. Even if you can never say it back. Even if you never think about me again after today. Even if you were right after all, and you’re not capable of love.”

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489. “He wakes up earlier, falls asleep later, works harder than anyone I’ve ever seen. The rigors he puts himself through, the single- minded, indefatigable stubbornness as he stares at the engines, dissecting, retracing, combining, projecting. He’s tireless, unshakable. Driven in an indomitable, near- obsessive way. This iron- hard tenacity of his is an oddly attractive quality.”

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490. “Yeah.” A deep inhale. “Yeah. I just wanted to listen to you exist.”

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491. “No one dies of a broken heart.”

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492. “On my quest to make him hurt as much as I’m hurting, I may have misplaced my self-preservation.”

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493. “He told her that he would never touch her because he didn’t want her enough; in truth, he will never touch her because he wants her too much. The make-believe, he thinks, was kinder to both of them.”

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494. “Is that why you came to rescue me?” I tease. “Because you were thinking about it? Because you have been secretly pining for years?” He meets my eyes squarely. “I don’t know that there was anything secret about that.”

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495. “He cages me, pins me, and stares down at me like he forgot where he is and I’m something to be consumed. Like I’m prey.”

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496. “I was weird. Cringe. Too awkward or too withdrawn. Off-putting.”

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497. “There’s nothing bad about taking more than five years to graduate,” he offered in a conciliatory tone.”

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498. “When the weight in her belly began to feel too heavy, her knees gave out on her and her back slid down until she sat on the floor. Olive stayed like that for a long time, trying to pretend that this wasn’t her life.”

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499. “Not anyway, but because.”

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500. “There is no universe in which I’m going to let you go. I want to be with you, on you, every second of every day.”

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