Problematic Summer Romance Quotes

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

“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 if we ever end up in an accident, I'd rather die than survive you.”
― 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

“Since the first day I met you, you have been the best thing in my life. And you weren’t even in it.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

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

“It’s the way you take over the space around you. You remind me constantly, loudly, indecently, of all the little things that make you you. It’s impossible to escape, and it makes me very angry.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“Do you want me to leave?” “It would be best if—” “Not the question I—” “No, Maya. I never want you to be anywhere but with me.”
― 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,” 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

“Maybe he was the love of my life. No, I am certain that he was. But happy endings are not the rule. Sometimes you give it your all, and things still don’t turn out well. Sometimes A for effort looks just like an F in a funhouse mirror. It’s okay. I’ve survived a lot of bad shit, and I know the trick to pull through. Breathe. Just breathe. And then breathe again.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“You are mine, and used to me touching you. You welcome it. It’s…We have a life, Maya. That’s ours.”
― 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

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

“You built a nice adulthood over the ruins of a shitty adolescence,” my therapist once”
― 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

“All of these things you listed, a dog could do.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

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

“A new feeling floods me: That he and I are on the same side of an invisible line, and the rest of the world is elsewhere. Our very own Isola Bella. Sandbar accessibility subject to changes in sea levels.”
― 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

“SCARLETT: Lukas and I are rooting for you.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“On my quest to make him hurt as much as I’m hurting, I may have misplaced my self-preservation.”
― 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

“It’s awkward, too. People try to put forward their best traits, but a lot is at stake, and they are nervous, which is counterproductive. It’s the trial-run nature of it. Like there’s something to prove, a new level to graduate to. The need to discover whether a subeffective dose of someone you barely know might be compatible with your system, then slowly increase the intake, see if your organism tolerates it…it’s the kind of shit you do to get accustomed to poisons.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“You built a nice adulthood over the ruins of a shitty adolescence,”
― 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

“Is the attraction in the room with us?” he asks, derisive.”
― 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

“He casts a level look in my direction. "Because if we end up in an accident, I’d rather die than survive you."
My heart stops. Doesn’t restart for whole seconds.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance

“He doesn't want to be in control of me, I don't think, just of himself.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Problematic Summer Romance