Top 450 Ali Hazelwood Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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.”

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352. “I’m twenty-two.”

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

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355. “It looks good. As in, really good. You were probably one of the most handsome men I’d ever talked to last week, but now you look even better. Not that I care about these things. I don’t care at all. I rarely notice guys, and I’m not sure why I’m noticing you, or your hair, or your clothes, or how tall and broad you are. I really don’t get it. I never care. Usually. Ugh.”

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356. “The shape oh his lips under hers was like an old song, familiar and easy.”

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357. “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.”

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358. “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.”

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

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360. “But you could room with me.”

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

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362. “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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363. “I love Wookiees so much. Best aliens ever.”

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364. “Please don’t build an atomic bomb.” “Don’t tell me what to do.” He sighs. “I’ll make room for the plutonium in the cheese drawer.”

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365. “Dude, dates are amazing.” “No, they’re not.” “Yes. Try wrapping them in bacon.”

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366. “I’ve got a spare,” Jack says, finishing in twenty seconds a parallel parking job that would have taken me twenty minutes and my whole dignity.”

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367. “Expiration dates are for the weak.”

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

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

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

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373. “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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374. “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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375. “Adam rolled his eyes, clearly amused. “Olive, this is my friend and collaborator. Dr. Tom Benton.”

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

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

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

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

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

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382. “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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383. “Not anyway, but because.”

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

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386. “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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387. “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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388. “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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389. “So he’d actually been listening when Olive vomited her life story at him.”

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

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391. “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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392. “That’s all I ask.”

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

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395. “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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396. “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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397. “I watch him scratch his – big – neck, then cross his – wide – biceps on his – broad – chest.”

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398. “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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399. “His voice was deep. So deep. Really deep. Dreamy deep.”

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400. “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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