Mate Quotes

“If someone had given me a piece of paper and asked me to list everything I liked, everything I dreamed of, everything that I was sure would make me happy, you would have been the final product of it”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“Her laughter adjusts the spin of his atoms.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“You told me that you loved me, Serena,” he says simply. His eyes are earnest, liquid. So profoundly good. “And while I’m willing to resign myself to an existence without the person I love, I refuse to condemn you to it.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“Cute, how she thinks he’d ever let her out of his sight.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“He easily resigned himself to a lifetime without her, but… Simply put, he is unwilling to contemplate a universe in which she no longer exists.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“What Misery is to Lowe, you are to me.”
Oh.
Oh?
Oh. “Is this a, um… terminal diagnosis?”
His lips twitch. “No cure, I’m afraid.”
“I see.” I clear my throat. “Well, this relationship sure escalated quickly.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“I would throw away my pack, my life, and my entire world for you. Which is the exact reason I cannot have you.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“Because every single thing I glanced at, grazed, examined, eyed, or even considered when we were at the grocery store, every single thing I decided to walk past, every single thing I told myself I didn’t need—every single thing has somehow made it here, inside Koen’s house.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“you find me attractive.” “That might be the dictionary definition of ‘understatement,’ but yes.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“He would die for her, and he would kill for her. More importantly, he will live for her.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“Did she shoot me?” “Irene? Yup, but only in the arm. Leg? I don’t know. You were in wolf form.” “Where is she?” “Um, so. Koen was, um, mad.” “Ah.” “You have been de-aunted, I fear.” “How tragic,” I say, not giving a single fuck.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“Big Bad Murderous Wolf in Charge of Thousands Cannot Handle Girl Crying.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“Before I leave, I think I need to hold you for a minute.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“Since you’re so sure that everyone here despises her, including me, let this be known: fuck with my mate, and I’m going to kill you so slowly, draw it out so long, tectonic plates will move and create whole new mountain ranges. And when the rest of your family comes to avenge you, I’ll do the same to them. And if your friends come, I’m not going to fucking stop. Not even if all that’s left of the pack is me and her. I will paint this entire territory green before I let anyone in the pack spill a single drop of red. Okay?”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“She’s an adult Were who doesn’t require coddling,” Koen interrupts. Once again, a bit jarring to hear, especially as he rolls thick, soft socks up my shins.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“My love for her is boundless---and much stronger than my pride. Her happiness matters to me, more than being able to say that I am the cause of it.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“Hang on. What would I have gotten if I’d chosen the other?” “A hug.” His eyes widen. Then squint. “What if I want to change my answer?”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“You’re the most beautiful woman that I’ve ever seen,” he says simply.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“Oh. “Is this a, um . . . terminal diagnosis?” His lips twitch. “No cure, I’m afraid.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“Good and evil are wide brushes that can't always paint the fine details of real life.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“I was being a patient, considerate, respectful, non-intrusive, accommodating mate. I was trying to—”
“Koen, you are the most intrusive mate ever. You never stop staring at me when we’re in the same room, you wake me up to have sex in the middle of the night, you keep tearing my clothes, and you want to be with me every second you’re not gone on pack business. You’re not really the space-giving kind of partner, and—”
“I’m trying. I could be way fucking worse.”
“—and I’m not complaining, because I wouldn’t have you any other way.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“In my defense, Serena…” Koen lifts his shoulders. “It’s always fucking something with you.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“Look at her. Just—look at her.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“I want to go outside, swallow a porcupine, and wait for the internal hemorrhaging to finish me.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“Nice try, but I’m not going to a second location with you. I’m not even convinced I want to stay in this one.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“Where would I bite you, to show that you’re mine?”
Koen goes still at the question. And then, after processing it for entirely too long, he lets out a soft, explosive curse against my collarbone. “I hate it,” he breathes out.
“What?”
“How perfect you are. I spent the last twenty years hoping that if there was a mate for me out there, I’d never come across them. And then I found you, and, Serena… there isn’t one thing I would change about you. Or one single thing I regret about knowing you.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“Well, that’s too bad. Because I don’t want you to feel safe.”
“You… don’t?”
Glaring, he leans toward me, full of something vicious that I cannot name. “I want you to be scared shitless, Serena. I want you so fucking terrified of me, you won’t even dream of not doing what I say. I want you to feel like your soft little throat is in my hands, and I want you to be so afraid that I’ll tear into it that when I tell you to do something for your own fucking safety, you won’t consider saying anything but ‘Yes, Alpha’.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“He bends further, and there isn’t a single trace of doubt on his face. He’s an immovable object and an unstoppable force. And he says, slowly, “If you think I’m going to let you die, Serena, you know fuck all.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“You look better,” he declares. “Less like you’re going to collapse and start fertilizing the meadow.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate

“Pretty sure being Alpha of this pack gives me a pass to run people through the paper shredder and make dinosaur-shaped nuggies out of what’s left.” He may have just threatened to macerate me, but at least he’s funny about it.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Mate