Colleen Hoover

Whether or not the couple ends up together at the end of a book doesn't determine whether the book has a happy ending or not. As long as the two people end up happy, it doesn't really matter if they end up happy together.

This thing about you that you think is your flaw - it's the reason I'm falling in love with you.

You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

When you find love, you take it. You grab it with both hands and you do everything in your power not to let it go. You can__ just walk away from it and expect it to linger until you__e ready for it.

As an author, I want to write what I__ inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel like the books will ultimately be better if my heart is fully into what I__ writing.

Who cares about tomorrow?What more is tomorrow,than another day?(-The Avett Brothers, "Swept Away")

The old me is sure making things difficult for the current me.

I...will never...regret you.

Tate lays her head on my arm, and we both watch her.Our daughter.I love you so much, Sam.I__ looking down at the perfection we created when it hits me.It__ all worth it.It__ the beautiful moments like these that make up for the uglylove.

Sometimes we don__ get second chances, Owen. Sometimes things just end.__e winces. __e didn__ even get a first chance.

I think about all the people I wish could die instead of you.

Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.

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.

I remember one time we were walking into a grocery store and an old man was ringing a bell for the Salvation Army. I asked my dad if we could give him some money and he told me no, that he works hard for his money and he wasn__ about to let me give it away. He said it isn__ his fault that other people don__ want to work. He spent the whole time we were in the grocery store telling me about how people take advantage of the government and until the government stops helping those people by giving them handouts, the problem won__ ever go away_ I believed him. That was three years ago and all this time I thought homeless people were homeless because they were lazy or drug addicts or just didn__ want to work like other people. But now I know that__ not true. Sure, some of what he said was true to an extent, but he was using the worst-case scenarios. Not everyone is homeless because they choose to be. They__e homeless because there isn__ enough help to go around. And people like my father are the problem. Instead of helping others, people use the worst-case scenarios to excuse their own selfishness and greed.

Okay, so how does this work exactly?" I ask as we walk toward his car. "Do we float down the bayou in rowboat while little critters sing 'Kiss the Girl'.

Sigh"?"Eye roll

If we__e going to kiss, it has to be book-worthy.

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.