Top 450 Ali Hazelwood Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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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352. “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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353. “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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354. “Expiration dates are for the weak.”

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

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356. “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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357. “Pay attention, sweetheart.”

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

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

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360. “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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361. “Grad school really screwed us up, didn’t it?”

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362. “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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363. “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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364. “Oh God. What if they’d really met years ago? He probably didn’t remember, anyway. Surely.”

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

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366. “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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367. “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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368. “I wanted to stop feeling as though I were rotting in my own aimlessness.”

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369. “Anh was her person.”

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

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

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

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

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374. “A waste of what?” “Of you.”

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375. “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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376. “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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377. “No. I don’t want to fake–break up.”

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378. “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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379. “But you could room with me.”

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

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

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382. “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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383. “I love Wookiees so much. Best aliens ever.”

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384. “A blond man approached Adam.”

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

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

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388. “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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389. “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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390. “You could be my entire world,” he whispers in my ear before moving to my collarbone. “If you let me.”

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

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

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393. “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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394. “Could he be one of those people who are hyperconfident in professional settings and the total opposite in their social lives? Nah. Unlikely.”

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395. “That’s all I ask.”

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396. “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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397. “Goodbye, Elsie.” After a beat, he adds, “It was a pleasure.”

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

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399. “He said it – “with you”- like Olive was something special, uniquely precious to him. His most beloved treasure. It made her want to shiver, and laugh, and weep at the same time. It made her happy and confused.”

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400. “Olive gasped. And gasped.”

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