“The Love Hypothesis” is a contemporary romance novel about Olive, a determined physicist, and Adam, a charming literature professor, who embark on a fake relationship to conduct a research study on the science of love.
Along the way, they confront their past traumas and fears, question their assumptions about love, and navigate their feelings for each other. It’s a heartwarming and humorous story about self-discovery, vulnerability, and finding love in unexpected places.
“The Love Hypothesis” Quotes
I wish you could see yourself the way I see you
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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.
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You can fall in love: someone will catch you.
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And then I’ll come find you, and I’ll take care of you.
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Expiration dates are for the weak.
โ Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis
I know itโs scary, being vulnerable, but you can allow yourself to care. You can want to be with people as more than just friends or casual acquaintances.
โ Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis
Because Iโm 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.
โ Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis
She loved him even more for it. For looking at her like she was the beginning and end of his every thought.
โย Ali Hazelwood,ย The Love Hypothesis
People who date, they-they talk. A lot. More than just greetings in the hallway. They know each otherโs favorite colors, and where they were born, and theyโฆ they hold hands. They kiss.โ
Adam pressed his lips together as if to suppress a smile. โWe could never do that.”
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But a good kiss will do that: make a girl forget herself for a while.
โ Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis
Academia takes alot from you a gives back very little. It’s hard to stick around without a good reason to do so.
โ Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis
Not having a life came in handy, sometimes.
โ Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis
I like no one, absolutely no one, but I liked you from the start.
โ Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis
A heart will break even more easily than the weakest of hydrogen bonds.
โ Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis
Who needs to know how to say โI love youโ in every language? People barely need it in one. Sometimes not even in one.
โ Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis
Sometimes somethings are so pretty, they make everything else a little less impressive…
โ Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis
The constant feeling of not belonging, the never-ending suspicions that since so much of her life had been spent alone, then it would end the same way. That she’d never be worthy of someone caring for her.
โ Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis
Itโs never too late to tell the truth.
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Dating like it was an Olympic sport! (โIt is an Olympic sport, Olive. And I am training for gold.โ)
โ Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis
If you say another word about the woman I love, if you look at her, if you even think about her – I’m going to fucking kill you
