Top 450 Ali Hazelwood Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “She had a sense that he really meant it. That she could have talked about her mom for however long she liked, and he would have listened intently to every second of it. She wasn’t sure she was ready for it, though.”

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302. “Sometimes they’re useful,” Sadie points out. “Like that guy with a Korn T-shirt who helped me open a jar of pickled radishes in 2018.” “Oh yeah.” I nod. “I remember that.” “Hands down my most profound experience with a man.” “In hindsight, you should have asked him to marry you.” “A missed opportunity.”

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303. “I wanted to stop feeling as though I were rotting in my own aimlessness.”

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304. “Anh was her person.”

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305. “To be fair, she was a dog person.”

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306. “I started out convinced that chewing on glass would surely be preferable.”

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307. “In France, the guillotine was used as recently as 1977.”

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308. “I’d give everyone the me they wanted, needed, craved, and in exchange they’d care about me.”

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309. “He kisses like he’s already inside me.”

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310. “Can I ask you a question?”

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311. “A waste of what?” “Of you.”

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312. “I reserve the right to feel bitter that after Tim and I got engaged, Levi pulled him aside and told him that he could do much better than me. Come on, who does that?”

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313. “You’re pathologically independent and don’t let others come close out of fear that they’ll eventually leave you.”

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314. “Pearl Jam’s not my favorite, but it’s good, and I hate that Levi likes good music. I need him to love Dave Matthews Band. To stan the Insane Clown Posse. To have a Nickelback tramp stamp.”

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315. “You know what your condition is? It’s called – ” “Not a condition, we’ve been over – ” “ – avoidant attachment. You’re pathologically independent and don’t let others come close out of fear that they’ll eventually leave you. You have erected a fence around you – the Bee-fence – and are terrified of anything resembling emotional –.”

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316. “That way if something goes wrong, if someone rejects you, then it’s not about you, is it? When you’re yourself, that’s when you’re exposed. Vulnerable.”

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317. “Is everything okay?” He said it looking into her eyes, in a low, intimate tone. Like they were alone. Like Anh was not there. He said it in a way that should have made Olive uncomfortable but didn’t. For some inexplicable reason his presence in the room soothed her, even though until a second ago she had been freaking out. Perhaps two different types of unease neutralized each other?”

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318. “Likely. Actually, scratch that, you probably don’t like ice cream anyway, because you don’t enjoy anything that’s good in life.” She kept on walking, pensively chewing on her lower lip. “Maybe the cafeteria has some raw broccoli?” “I don’t deserve this verbal abuse on top of the flu shot.” She beamed. “You’re such a trooper. Even though the big bad needle is out to get you.”

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319. “Approximately two out of three fake-dating situations will eventually involve room-sharing; 50 percent of room-sharing situations will be further complicated by the presence of only one bed.”

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320. “No. I don’t want to fake–break up.”

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321. “If there was something she could empathize with, it was scientific studies coming to an abrupt halt because of a lack of resources.”

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322. “How the turntables,” Adam murmured.”

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323. “And then she felt her blood pulsate in her eyelids, which couldn’t be healthy, but – Yes. Yes! She had a taker. Almost. Probably? Maybe. Definitely maybe. Tom Benton had said “good.” He had said that it sounded “good.” It had to be a “good” sign, right?”

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324. “I think I have found a set of biomarkers. Not from tissue biopsy – blood biomarkers. Noninvasive, easy to obtain. Cheap. In mice they can detect pancreatic cancer as early as stage one.”

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325. “But you could room with me.”

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326. “You just had to go and make me fall for you.”

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327. “LILY SULLIVAN IS warm, personable, and sweet in a delicious Southern way.”

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328. “I can’t believe you commented ‘delete your account.’ It’s cyberbullying, Liam.”

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329. “He gives me a confused, curious look. Like he knows that I’m complicated, but he doesn’t mind. Like he’d rather spend the rest of his life studying an inch of me than discovering the mysteries behind the universe.”

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330. “Since I’ve met you exactly five times so far, and during two of those you suffered from some diabetes-related complication that required my help.” “Eight more and I get a free sub?” He snorts a laugh. “With this level of self-sabotaging, you don’t need outside help.”

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331. “I’m not a very secretive person, mostly out of laziness: I refuse to take on the cognitive labor of tracking lies and omissions.”

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332. “I love Wookiees so much. Best aliens ever.”

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333. “A blond man approached Adam.”

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334. “Who would I even be without my burning need to correct people who say that humans use only 10 percent of their brain?”

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335. “I like to see you. When you’re not trying to be someone else.”

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336. “Bee has a useless parasympathetic nervous system, which is an endless source of entertainment,” Levi explains to Penny. “Excuse me.” I scowl. “Some of us don’t have the luxury of stable blood pressure.” “I didn’t say it wasn’t cute,” he murmurs inaudibly against my temple. The scratch of his stubble against my skin is rough. His lips, soft. Penny seems to be a fan, too. “Does your twin faint, too?” “Nope. She got all the best things.”

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337. “Loneliness is not abstract and intangible – metaphors about desert islands and mismatched shoes, Edward Hopper’s characters staring at windows, Fiona Apple’s entire discography. Loneliness is here. It molds our souls, but also our bodies.”

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338. “Dude, stop trying so hard.” She kneeled until she was at eye level with the cage. The mouse kicked around with its little legs, its tail flopping back and forth. “You’re supposed to be bad at this. And I’m supposed to write a 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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339. “So he’d actually been listening when Olive vomited her life story at him.”

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340. “It reminds me of grad school, when we couldn’t afford therapy and we’d engage in some healthy communal bitching every other night, just to survive the madness.”

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341. “I need a nap. I need a seven-year nap.”

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342. “For real though, Amber says, Glenn and I can see everything going on in this hallway. I thought I’d intervene before you got pregnant.”

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343. “He’s so tall, I have to consciously lift up my chin to meet his eyes.”

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344. “Ol, I’ve seen the way he looks at you. He’s head over feet. There is no way he’ll want to move to Boston if you’re not going – and I’m sure as hell not letting you go work for this dipshit...”

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345. “And I could stand here, stare at my closet, and agonize over the fact that my grad school nemesis saved my life. Or I could bask in my excitement and pick an outfit.”

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346. “I guess this is it – being in love. Truly in love. Lots and lots of horrible, wondrous, violent emotions. It doesn’t suit me.”

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347. “You could be my entire world,” he whispers in my ear before moving to my collarbone. “If you let me.”

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348. “I’ve read every word you’ve written.”

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349. “Just checking in. Making sure you’ve eaten enough.” I roll my eyes. “I did. Thanks, Daddy.”

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350. “She felt her cheeks curve into a smile, trying to imagine what he was listening to. Probably Coil, or Kraftwerk. The Velvet Underground. A TED Talk on water-efficient landscaping. Whale noises.”

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