“There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“I'm scared I'll never feel this again with anyone else," I whisper.
He squeezes my hands. "I'm scared you will.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“I love you so much.” His voice is breathless and full of fear. “I’ll love you forever. Even when I can’t.” My tears fall harder at his words. “And I’ll love you forever. Even when I shouldn't.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“I'm afraid if I listen to my heart once, I'll never figure out how to ignore it again.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“It’s amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“I think love is a hard word to define,” I say to her. “You can love a lot of things about a person but still not love the whole person.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“I’ll love you forever. Even when I can’t.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“Please don’t allow anyone to make you feel less than what you are.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“Sometimes I miss them so much, it hurts me right here. It feels like someone is squeezing my heart with the strength of the entire goddamn world.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“No one deserves you like I do.” …
“No one sees you like I do.” …
“No one understand you the way I do.” …
“No one makes your heart beat like I do.” …
He presses his palm against my heart. “And no one else deserves to be inside you if they can’t get there here first.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“Tell me something about yourself that no one else knows. Something I can keep for myself.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“Sometimes we don’t get second chances, Owen. Sometimes things just end.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“That could be fate, you know.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“He kisses me like he's giving me every kiss he wishes he could have given me the past, and every kiss he'll wish he could give me in the future.
All at once.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“How can a fifteen-year old girl defend her love when that love is dismissed by everyone? It’s impossible to defend yourself against inexperience and age. And maybe they’re right. Maybe we don’t know love like an adult knows love, but we sure as hell feel it.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“It's amazing how you don't realize just how alone and scared you were until you have someone by your side to support you.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“He kisses me like I’m his canvas.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“Sometimes we don’t get second chances, Owen. Sometimes things just end.”
He winces. “We didn’t even get a first chance.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“She deserves better. So much better.
She deserves me.
If only she knew that.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“Tonight, everyone’s focus is on my art, but my focus is on her. She’s the most interesting piece in this entire room.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“Every day of my life it feels as if I'm
fighting my way up an escalator that only goes down.
And no matter how fast or how hard I run to try to reach the top, I stay in
the same place, sprinting, getting nowhere.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“It’s not a confession if no one reads it. It’s just an unshared secret.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“You drink to escape the emotional pain you’re in, and then the next day you do it all over again to get rid of the physical pain. So you drink more and your drink more often and pretty soon you’re drunk all the time and it becomes just as bad, if not worse, than the reality you were attempting to escape from in the first place. Only now, you need an escape from the escape, so you find something even stronger than the alcohol. And maybe that’s what turns alcoholics into addicts.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“She seems a lot like me. A loner, a thinker, an artist with her life. And it appears as though she's afraid I'll alter her canvas if she allows me too close. She doesn't need to worry. The feeling is mutual.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“Fucking heels,” she mumbles. Only she isn’t wearing heels. She’s wearing black flats, but she blames them, anyway.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“She deserves so much better than what I can give her. I don’t, however, think she deserves better than me. I think she would be perfect for me and I would be perfect for her, but all the bad choices I’ve made in my life are what she doesn’t deserve to be a part of.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“How is it possible that I’m already falling in love with you?”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
“I love you so much.” His voice is breathless and full of fear. “I’ll love you forever. Even when I can’t.” My tears fall harder at his words. “And I’ll love you forever. Even when I shouldn’t.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Confess
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“A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.”
― David Eagleman, quote from Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!"
Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.”
― Lewis Carroll, quote from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
“Imagine I can see her, her or something of her, but only her, in a hundred, a thousand different vistas, she who makes the Moon and, whenever she is full, sets the dogs to howling all night long, and me with them.”
― Italo Calvino, quote from The Complete Cosmicomics
“India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, quote from The Girl of Ink and Stars
“you rise at dawn in May you can savour the world before the pandemonium din of the Industrial Revolution and 24/7 shopping.”
― John Lewis-Stempel, quote from Meadowland: the private life of an English field
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