Top 450 Ali Hazelwood Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Loneliness is here. It moulds our souls, but also our bodies.”

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

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354. “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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355. “Expiration dates are for the weak.”

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

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

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

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359. “He opened his mouth, and then closed it. And then opened it again. You kissed that mouth, Olive. And it was a good kiss.”

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

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

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363. “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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364. “Not anyway, but because.”

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

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

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368. “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.”

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369. “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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370. “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.”

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371. “So he’d actually been listening when Olive vomited her life story at him.”

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

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373. “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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374. “That’s all I ask.”

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375. “There’s someone in my corner. A guy who loves Star Wars, and is too tall for space, and will take care of a kitten for half his life.”

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376. “You’re stubborn and misguided, and often wrong – about music and other things.”

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377. “In the grim, dark hellscape of academia, graduate students were the lowliest of creatures and therefore had to convince themselves that they were the best.”

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378. “He leisurely puts his arm on the back of my chair, and plucks a grape from my plate. A deafening silence falls at the table. Everyone is looking at us. Everyone. “What about you, Mike?” Levi asks without bothering to look up from my food. “I heard there were problems with your tenure packet. How’s that coming along?”

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379. “I watch him scratch his – big – neck, then cross his – wide – biceps on his – broad – chest.”

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380. “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.”

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

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382. “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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383. “Anh was her person.”

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

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

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386. “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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387. “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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388. “Malcolm huffed. “You two can be so smart and yet so slow.”

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389. “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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390. “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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391. “In which case she supposed that she would see him again, when she pleaded guilty in federal court.”

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392. “I’ve never wanted anything more than to say yes. I’ve never wished to reach for something as I do now. And I’ve never been so utterly, petrifyingly scared to lose something.”

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393. “But take your time, Elsie. I’ll wait for as long as it takes.”

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394. “I hate that I love him,” Mara mutters under her breath. Sadie sighs. “At least yours isn’t running against the wall because he can’t use the controller.”

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395. “Just lots of talking through how my inability to functionally communicate my needs stemmed from a family that never allowed me to. Same old.”

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

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

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398. “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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399. “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.”

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400. “Olive gasped. And gasped.”

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