Colleen Hoover is a best-selling American author whose heartfelt stories have touched millions. Starting from humble beginnings, she gained worldwide acclaim through authentic portrayals of love, loss, and resilience. Colleen's novels inspire a deep emotional connection and have built a devoted global community. Her journey proves the power of storytelling and motivates aspiring writers to trust their unique voices and pursue their passions with confidence.
"It's funny how that works. Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying, I don't know how to speak to you. I don't know what you're thinking. Talk to me. Tell me everything you've ever said. All the words. Starting from your very first one."
"What a nickname. Teenagers can be so cruel. I'm embarrassed to be one of them."
"This is why I choose not to have real-life girlfriends. I can't even pretend without starting a fight."
"You'll never be able to find yourself if you're lost in someone else."
"You're so blantantly attracted to me, it's hard not to tease you."
"The way he's watching me makes me feel needed like no one's ever been able to make me feel. In a way, he makes me feel necessary. Like my existence alone is necessary for his survival."
"I don't want you to change, Bridgette. I'm not in love with who you could be, or who you used to be, or who the world says you should be. I'm in love with you. Right now. Just like this."
"Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective."
"He never looks away, searching my eyes for truth. His reaction has left my heart pounding, shocked at how quick he was to dismiss any fault I may have had. I wish he was just as quick to dismiss his own faults, but he isn't."
"You sort of don't find me attractive? That can also mean you sort of do find me attractive."
"Sky, wait. The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky."
"Lines are drawn, but then they fade. For her I bend, for you I break."
"Do we all repeat the same words in our heads in the days after experiencing abuse at the hands of those who love us? "From this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, until death do us part."Maybe those vows weren't meant to be taken as literally as some spouses take them. For better, for worse?Fuck. That. Shit."
"I would never let anyone else borrow my heart if I know there's a chance in hell you might want it back."
"Truths are written, never said... Lines are drawn, but then they fade."
"Thank you for loving me like you love me. Thank you for showing me that we don't always have to be strong to be there for each other--that it's okay to be weak, so long as we're there."
"The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there."
"You don't put pressure on me to be something I'm incapable of being. You accept me exactly how I am."
"He unclenched his fists and dropped her worries, unable to catch them for her. But she picked them back up and dusted them off. She wants to be able to hold them herself now."
"Whenever I'm around him, all I can think about is how much more I want to be around him."
"To me, lyrics are harder to write when you have to invent the feelings behind them. That's when lyrics take a lot of thought, when they aren't genuine."
"If I were a carpenter, I would build you a window to my soul. But I would leave that window shut and locked, so that every time you tried to look through it all you would see is your own reflection. You would see that my soul is a reflection of you."
"There is no such thing as bad people.we're all just people who sometimes do bad things."
"There will be days that I don't think we'll know how to survive. But we will, because we have each other."
"The sky is always beautiful. Even when it's dark or rainy or cloudy, it's still beautiful to look at. It's my favorite thing because I know if I ever get lost or lonely or scared, I just have to look up and it'll be there no matter what...and I know it'll always be beautiful."
"You're incredibly brave. And you're going to make it through this because you have a very strong heart. A heart that is capable of loving so much about life and people in a way you never dreamt a heart could love. And you're beautiful in here. Your heart is so beautiful and someday someone is going to love that heart like it deserves to be loved."
"Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?"
"Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future."
"We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it's somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life."
"There can't be a maybe someday between us. There will never be a maybe someday."