Below Zero Quotes

“Caring what others think is a lot of work, and—with a handful of exceptions—I’m not a huge fan of work.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“Who would have figured that being a little shit for the first one and a half decades of my life would bring lasting consequences? Not me.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“Wow. A male engineer who’s not an asshole. The bar is pretty low, but I’m nevertheless impressed.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“Hey, he’s my cousin-or-something.” Sadie pats her on the shoulder. “It’s the or something that gets me every time. You can really feel the unbreakable family ties.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“He says it–you–like I am a remarkable and important thing. The most precious data point; his favorite town; the loveliest, starkest Martian landscape. Even though I pushed him away, over and over, he still came in a rocking boat in the middle of the coldest ocean on planet Earth, just to keep me warm.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“And yet, I find the strength to roll my eyes. At least the cranky bitch inside my heart is holding strong.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“He is fully smiling now. He has a heart-stopping dimple on his left cheek, and . . . Okay, fine: he’s aggressively hot.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“I always knew I was an asshole, but I’d never quite realized the extent of it.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“Dignity is overrated”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“My eyes spring open. I’m not dreaming anymore.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“Mara on either side of me in my queen-size bed, and my heart is so full, I’m afraid it’ll overflow. Apparently this is what I am now, a unicorn rainbow marshmallow kitten creature. Bah.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“I promise I won’t reply with unsolicited nudes.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“He’s a way better person than I’ll ever be.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“Because you have been secretly pining for years?” He meets my eyes squarely. “I don’t know that there was anything secret about that.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“Rejections are the bread and butter of all academic journeys. [..,] The good thing is, the more rejections you get, the easier they are to swallow.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“I wanted to stop feeling as though I were rotting in my own aimlessness, and I wanted my head to stop spinning all the time.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“Hannah, if that changes. If you ever find yourself able to believe that someone could care about you that much. And if you wanted to actually . . . have dinner with that someone.” He lets out a laugh. “Well . . . Please, consider me. You know where to find me.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“Is that why you came to rescue me?” I tease. “Because you were thinking about it? Because you have been secretly pining for years?” He meets my eyes squarely. “I don’t know that there was anything secret about that.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“His smile is so unabashedly, genuinely happy for me, my heart leaps in my throat.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“Okay. So he’s not my type. I do like him, though.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“So, I graduate, and I decide that I want to work at NASA and not for some weirdo billionaire who treats space exploration like it’s his own homemade penis-enlargement remedy.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“I’m rapidly developing a thing for the contrast between his eyelashes (red!) and his”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“He is, very simply, a never-before-experienced mix of cute and overwhelmingly masculine. With a complex, layered air about him. It spells simultaneously Do not piss me off because I don’t fuck around and Ma’am, let me carry those groceries for you.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“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.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“Then write a report about it. Due by the end of the semester. Don’t come to me bitching about it during office hours, because I will call security to escort you out.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

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

“I wanted to stop feeling as though I were rotting in my own aimlessness.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“And there’re people like me: what we want—oftentimes what we’ve wanted since our frontal lobes were still undeveloped enough to have us thinking that toe shoes are a good fashion statement—is to know about space.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“He says it—you—like I am a remarkable and important thing. The most precious data point; his favorite town; the loveliest, starkest Martian landscape. Even though I pushed him away, over and over, he still came in a rocking boat in the middle of the coldest ocean on planet Earth, just to get me warm.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

“This one right here is the Solis Lacus. The Eye of Mars. Getting all worked up during dust storms.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero