Top 450 Ali Hazelwood Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “And I definitely wouldn’t want you to be George.” “And why is that?” He presses his lips together. He’s even closer now. Surprisingly earnest. “It would be a waste.”

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252. “The line of his jaw, so sharp it could cut a heart.”

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253. “It’s like he’s trying to puzzle me out without changing me – and that’s impossible. That’s not how people are with me.”

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254. “I’ve got you. Don’t worry, okay?”

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255. “La perpetuidad y el amor son claramente incompatibles.”

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256. “I’ve been to tons of these back at Northeastern, and all they manage to show is that we academics are awkward, resentful nerds unable to interact with our colleagues without litres of ethanolic lubricant.”

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257. “She would have loved to run to the edge of campus and scream into the void until modern civilization collapsed, but that wasn’t exactly a pressing matter.”

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258. “I stare at him. And stare at him. And stare a little more, open-mouthed. I stare at this man who is six four and two hundred pounds of muscle and just vented to me for five minutes about the fact that space is a scary place. God. Oh, God. I think I like him.”

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259. “Sometimes somethings are so pretty, they make everything else a little less impressive...”

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260. “It hit her then what was so special about Adam. That no matter his reputation, or how rocky their first meeting, since the very beginning, Olive had felt that he was on her side. Over and over, and in ways that she could never have anticipated, he had made her feel unjudged. Less alone.”

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261. “Adam smiles, too, and thinks, This is it. He thinks, I love you. He thinks, Maybe, one day, you’ll even let me tell you.”

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262. “He’s a way better person than I’ll ever be.”

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263. “She also had the means to carry out her research next year, and two big names in her field had just complimented her work.”

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264. “She’s wearing a purple jumpsuit and heart-shaped sunglasses,, and her hair is pulled over her shoulder into a fishtail braid that reaches her ribcage. Her purse is shaped like a watermelon, and her necklace is a pink flower with the letter K in its middle. I want to be her.”

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265. “You’re supposed to be bad at this. And I’m supposed to write a www ajpdf com dissertation about how bad you are. And then you get a chunk of cheese, and I get a real job that pays real money and the joy of saying ‘I’m not that kind of doctor’ when someone is having a stroke on my airplane.”

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266. “And as far as crevasses go, it’s a good one to get stuck in.”

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267. “There is something about you. That you tirelessly study people. Figure out who they are, what they want, and then mold yourself into whatever shape you think will fit them. I’ve seen you play half a dozen different roles for half a dozen different situations, switching personalities like you’re channel surfing, and I still have no idea who you are.”

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268. “When you were three, I had to drive you to the ER because you stuck a purple crayon up your butthole. That should be your biggest regret.”

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269. “He’s wearing a dark-green henley.”

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270. “He is just a boy, standing in front of a girl, asking her to do twice as much work as he ever did in order to prove that she’s worthy of becoming a scientist.”

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271. “Zoom into 1906, and that’s where you’ll find the real moral of this tale: trusting people to stick around is a bad idea. One way or another they’ll end up gone.”

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272. “Maybe that’s what he majored in at Dartmouth: Snow Shoveling. Nicely complemented by a minor in Muscles. His honors thesis was titled The Importance of Armceps in Ergonomic Excavating. Then he moved to graduate school to study How-to-Make-a-Mundane-Winter-Task-Look-Attractive Law.”

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273. “Dr. Deol about his son’s third-grade teacher, who still thinks Pluto is a planet; nod as Dr. Sader sips on a Capri Sun while rambling about dark matter being not a clump but a smoothly distributed wavy superfluid. It’s going well, I tell myself.”

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274. “There was something intrinsically enjoyable in having him next to her, so physical and undeniable. She felt it on some primal, visceral level, the giddy happiness that always came with his presence.”

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275. “I need you to understand that this is not a book you’re writing. We’re not- not two characters you can keep apart because it makes for a literary ending. These are our lives, Bee.”

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276. “Expiration dates are for the weak.”

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277. “I love you, I think, and you are my home.”

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

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279. “His cheek curved. “You are such a smart-ass.”

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280. “I wanted to stop feeling as though I were rotting in my own aimlessness, and I wanted my head to stop spinning all the time.”

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281. “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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282. “Pay attention, sweetheart.”

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

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284. “Maybe we can tell people that I broke up with you?”

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

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287. “It’s hard to sustain high and prolonged levels of hatred at someone who’s saved on your phone with a cutesy nickname.”

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288. “I want to text him. I want to call him. I want to take the elevator and go downstairs to smell him. But I’m not going to. I’m not that weird. Overtly, at least.”

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289. “In my fantasies, you allow me to keep an eye on you.” I feel his lips at my temple. “And when I really let go, I imagine that you let me take care of you, too.”

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290. “If academia ever makes you feel like you’re not good enough or smart enough... it’s not you, it’s academia.”

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291. “I’ve long learned that engagin with basement-dwelling stemlords who come online looking for a fight is never a good idea – the last thing I want is to provide free entertainment for their fragile egos. If they want to blow off some steam, they can buy a gym membership or play third-person-shooter games. Like normal people.”

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292. “A bit theatrical, not really my thing, but I wasn’t going to complain, not when it meant someone wanted to stand by me for good. So I looked him in the eyes, choked back the tears, and said yes.”

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293. “Oh God. What if they’d really met years ago? He probably didn’t remember, anyway. Surely.”

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294. “The bar’s so low, you could pick it up and beat him with it.”

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295. “Porque empiezo a preguntarme si estar enamorada es esto: que no te importe hacerte pedazos para que la otra persona pueda permanecer entera.”

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296. “It’s not a date. But if it were – which it isn’t – it would be the best date of my life. Of course, because it’s not a date, the point is moot. But. If it were. Though it’s not.”

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297. “Oh, Levi, Levi. I can be fearless. I can be as fearless and honest as you are. If you will teach me.”

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298. “Pumpkin spice is Satan’s dandruff, harbinger of the apocalypse, and it tastes like ass – not in the good way.”

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299. “She wished she could expire on the spot.”

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300. “Sweetheart,” he murmured. “What is the second thing?” She was still crying, but she’d never been happier. So she said it, probably in the worst accent he’d ever heard. “Ik hou van jou, Adam.”

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