Stuck with You Quotes

“I only knew you for twenty-four hours, but I’ve never missed anyone so much.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“I don’t know if this is a date,” he says, serious, “but if it isn’t, will you go on one with me?” I smile so wide, my cheeks nearly hurt.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“And I’ve been scared, scared like never before, that I’d hurt you.” He lifts his hand. Curves it around my cheek. “That I’d left you in some—any kind of pain. That I couldn’t make amends. Which, let me tell you, is no fun when you know in your lizard brain that you’re about five minutes from falling in love with someone.” He closes his eyes. “Maybe past. Can’t really tell.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“I really wish I had the emotional fortitude to hang up on you.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“I need a nap. I need a seven-year nap.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“Where do you live?” he asks softly.
“Farthest reaches of Staten Island,” I lie.
It’s supposed to be my revenge, but he just says, “Good.”
“Good?”
“Good.”
I frown. “It’s a toll of seventeen dollars, my friend.”
He shrugs.
“One-way, Erik.”
“It’s fine.”
“How is it fine?”
He shrugs again. “At least it’ll take a while to get there.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“This is my new happy place, Erik murmured into the shell of my ear the second time we had sex that night. And then he pushed my sweaty hair away from my forehead, and I looked up at him and thought, His eyes are the exact color of the sky when the sun shines. And I always, always loved the sky.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“Sadie, I know you like this guy a lot. I know that if he does decide that he doesn’t want you in his life it’s going to hurt, and that you’re tempted to preemptively pull back to protect yourself. But if you don’t at least give him a chance to choose you, you’ll lose him for sure.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“Cat jumps on the island. He gingerly sidesteps our mugs and with a curious expression sniffs Erik’s croissant. “Oh, buddy, no,” Erik whispers. “You don’t want to do that.” Cat takes a delicate lick. Then he turns to me to stare with a horrified, betrayed expression.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“For no real reason other than because of how striking he looks. He is just so . . . Scandinavian, maybe. Viking-like. Norse. Like his ancestors frolicked below the aurora borealis on their way to funding Ikea.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“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.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“You can introduce me to the hamster.” “Guinea pig.” “Pretty sure they’re the same thing.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“A pause. “You are a brilliant engineer who knows the Premier League stats of the past three decades off the top of your head. Physically, you are the uncanny combination of every single feature I’ve ever found attractive—no, I will not expand on that. And you saved me on your phone as Corporate Thor, even after I gave you my full name.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“doubt I’ll manage to finally push past five feet at the ripe old age of twenty-seven,”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“Logarithmic derivatives are so much easier than this relationship shit.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“Just making sure that giant rat isn't tyring to eat my jeans”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“I don’t know if this is a date,” he says, serious, “but if it isn’t, will you go on one with me?”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“It's hard to sustain high and prolonged levels of hatred at someone who's saved on your phone with a cutesy nickname.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“He looks away guiltily. Then he presses his index and forefinger in his eyes, like he’s suddenly, overwhelmingly exhausted, and murmurs quietly, “Fuck, Sadie. I’m sorry.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“Because such is the way of the universe: it's full of bad, sad, upsetting, unfair, enraging circumstances...”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“I laugh again, exhausted and drowsy and over the moon, and I cannot help but wonder how different this morning would be if Erik hadn’t been the one to buy Faye’s croissant. I cannot help but wonder if this is the first day of the rest of my life.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“when I notice the cat.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“I am good at broadcasting disinterest and unavailability. Very, very good. And yet, here I am. On a New York bench. Clutching a croissant. Holding my breath and . . . hoping?”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“think,” he says, his voice more delicious than Faye’s croissants could ever hope to be, “that I’d like to hear that long, embarrassing story of yours.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You

“To be clear: I don’t even want a croissant. Which I know sounds weird (everybody should always want a croissant; it’s a law of physics, like the Fermi paradox or Einstein’s field equation),”
― Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You