Top 450 Ali Hazelwood Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “I watch him scratch his – big – neck, then cross his – wide – biceps on his – broad – chest.”

— Ali Hazelwood

302. “What’s the point of sharing 100 percent of your DNA with a person if you can’t wake them up for an emergency chat.”

— Ali Hazelwood

303. “Academia was nothing but a bunch of busy people running around busily.”

— Ali Hazelwood

304. “Politicky interesting. So, no.”

— Ali Hazelwood

305. “His voice was deep. So deep. Really deep. Dreamy deep.”

— Ali Hazelwood

306. “They should just give him a cot and donate the money to worthy causes. Endangered whales. Psoriasis. Olive.”

— Ali Hazelwood

307. “Because it is. Don’t you watch rom-coms?”

— Ali Hazelwood

308. “An old woman and a newborn calf. Wretched little me, still containing multitudes.”

— Ali Hazelwood

309. “His hair is messy, and bright, and beautiful. Not nearly as disgustingly hat-squished as mine, an inexplicable phenomenon that should be the object of several research studies.”

— Ali Hazelwood

310. “A coupon for a mud bath? Lovely. It’ll feel like practice for when I’m lowered in my grave and you all fight over my money.” It’s on brand:.”

— Ali Hazelwood

311. “And remember my hand.”

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312. “I lean my forehead against the chilly glass of the window, feeling an odd sense of isolation, as though I’m disconnected from the entire world, swaddled in a muffled white cocoon.”

— Ali Hazelwood

313. “He always seemed like such a man’s man, after all. Different from the boys that surrounded me. Serious, disciplined, a little broody. Intense and gifted. Alpha, whatever that even means.”

— Ali Hazelwood

314. “But I did grow up in a hostile uncommunicative environment. I was an uncommunicative person before I realized that I couldn’t spend the rest of my life like that.”

— Ali Hazelwood

315. “There is no other neuroscientist I’d want to do this project with. Not a single one.”

— Ali Hazelwood

316. “Kill the people who made you cry.”

— Ali Hazelwood

317. “This, she thought, this was going to be their perfect night. And their last.”

— Ali Hazelwood

318. “It had been one of her mother’s favorite stories. And now Olive was the only person who could tell it. It lived in her, and no one else.”

— Ali Hazelwood

319. “I step out with a small wave and notice two things: he’s staring hard at his feet, and his left hand is a tight fist at his side.”

— Ali Hazelwood

320. “Oh.” Olive’s cheeks heated at the indignation in his voice. Right. Of course he didn’t expect that. Or even want that, with her. Look at him.”

— Ali Hazelwood

321. “It was frightening. Frightening, how goof this felt. How easy it would be to never stop. To let time stretch and unbend, forget about everything else, and simply stay in this moment forever.”

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322. “I didn’t know you two talked,” Monica says, looking skeptically between us. “I learned a few years ago,” Jack tells her calmly, staring only at me. She’s little more than a fly buzzing around us. “And Elsie’s in the process of mastering the art of speaking for herself.”

— Ali Hazelwood

323. “There’s something disarmingly, devastatingly self-confident about Jack. About the way he laid out all these facts without hesitating, as though owning his feelings is first and second nature. I study the glint of the lamp hitting his golden hair and wonder why this man would even bother thinking of me. He’s figured out my entire game. I came to him empty-handed.”

— Ali Hazelwood

324. “Tom had made his decision. Her destiny was going to be defined by the next few minutes.”

— Ali Hazelwood

325. “I think – I dream of crazy things. I want you to marry me tomorrow so you can go on my health insurance. I want to lock you in my room for a couple of weeks. I want to buy groceries based on what you like.”

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326. “The Guy in the bathroom. He’d said that academia was a lot of bucks for little bang, and that one needed a good reason to stick around. Olive wondered where he was now.”

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327. “I miss not having to google whether I’m having a psychotic episode.”

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328. “I can give you nice. I can give you better than nice. I can give you everything.” He smiles at me, full of hope. “You don’t even have to admit to yourself that you love me, Bee. God knows I love you enough for the both of us. But I need you to stay. I need you to stick around. Not in Houston, if you don’t want to. I’ll follow you, if you ask me to.”

— Ali Hazelwood

329. “I promise I won’t reply with unsolicited nudes.”

— Ali Hazelwood

330. “Voices are like faces, after all: one never forgets them, not if they belong to people who are important. Your parents. Siblings. Best friends, partners, crushes.”

— Ali Hazelwood

331. “Who cared? She was going to meet Tom Benton and convince him to take her on. Pancreatic cancer, I’m coming for you.”

— Ali Hazelwood

332. “Adam – stop,” she pleaded, and for a moment he just nuzzled his face against her folds like he had no intention of doing any such thing.”

— Ali Hazelwood

333. “I’m twenty-two.”

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334. “The oldies radio station plays pop songs that I remember from the early 2000s, and I stare at the yellow glow of the streetlights, wondering if I, too, am an oldie.”

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335. “You could be my entire world. If you let me.”

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336. “Fear aside, do you want to be with Jack? Do you like being with Jack?” So much. So, so much. So, so, so much.”

— Ali Hazelwood

337. “Sweet summer STEMlord. I promise you’re not as edgy as you think.”

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338. “And now here he is, pushing me into a wall in the middle of NASA’s Space Center, and he looks... he looks...”

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

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

— Ali Hazelwood

341. “He kisses, Olive thought, like a man starved.”

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

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343. “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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344. “La perpetuidad y el amor son claramente incompatibles.”

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345. “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.”

— Ali Hazelwood

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

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

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349. “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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350. “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.”

— Ali Hazelwood