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“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“I wish you could see yourself the way I see you"
- Adam”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“I'm starting to wonder if this is what being in love is. Being okay with ripping yourself to shreds, so the other person can stay whole.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“Ik hou van jou, Adam.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“Expiration dates are for the weak.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“This might be inappropriate but... Olive. You are really... You are extraordinary”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“You’re not a problem, Misery. You’re a privilege.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Bride

“In my fantasies, you allow me to keep an eye on you.” I feel his lips at my temple. “And when I really let go, I imagine that you let me take care of you, too.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“I have never wanted anything as desperately, as ungovernably, as persistently as I want you. Not a single goddamn thing. Not my dead mother back. Not revenge. Not the well-being of the people I love. Not professional success, not even my own happiness. Absolutely nothing has consumed me as mercilessly as you have.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“Because one day, Conor Harkness decided that he wanted someone to know him. And he chose me.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“I love you, Maya. And no. It’s never going to pass.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“You have no football, just an organized system of overgrown men giving each other CTE.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“I am a corporate lawyer, girl. My tolerance for boring is higher than the debt ceiling.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“You built a nice adulthood over the ruins of a shitty adolescence,” my therapist once said, and I enjoy the mental image of it. The idea of life as something I could choose, cultivate day by day, curate and nurture. Being mindful, instead of reactive.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“So, you and Rue are taking care of it?” He gives me an appalled look. “I would never ask Rue to talk on the phone with someone.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“You built a nice adulthood over the ruins of a shitty adolescence,”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“It’s not for us to know. He’s different with her.
How do you know?
Because that’s how relationships work. If it’s a good one, you let loose. You show all sides of yourself.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“Yeah.” A deep inhale. “Yeah. I just wanted to listen to you exist.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“I just wanted to listen to you exist.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“He brushes his thumb over my lower lip, and says: “I love you, Maya. And no. It’s never going to pass.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“Okay, first of all, your soul has never been anything but coal smeared. I bet you burned ants with magnifying lenses when you were a toddler, back during the Protestant Reformation.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“I bet you burned ants with magnifying lenses when you were a toddler, back during the Protestant Reformation.” “That is patently libelous, and I do not deserve—”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“The Mayageddon,’ Sul whispers.

‘No,’ I protest. ‘Come on, no. She's locked in. I was just pointing out that Axel is terribly incompetent and the sole reason we might not win. But like, in a nice, friendly way.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“Age is years of accumulated experience. Age is lessons learned.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“I wish I could bear this for you, Maya.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“I hope you lied to him and saved those five euros, Daddy.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“No. It’s always water this and water that, but when I try to drink the blood of my enemies—” “Can’t believe I’d forgotten,” he says, low. Fond, maybe. A few feet away, the others are straightening their shovel-made goal-posts. “Forgotten what?” “The monster within.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“Dude, this is what I hate about rich old white men.” Nyota sags forward. “They never fail to embody the stereotype, and they’re so damn boring. They have their little midlife crises, and do they decide to invest in sustainability projects? Do they publicly advocate for women’s reproductive rights? Nope, they get married to a girl who was barely potty trained by the time they’d embezzled their first million.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“What are your intentions?”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“Friends don’t do that.” “Friends don’t do…what?” “Disappear into the ether.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance