Colleen Hoover

“So I'm not about to apologize for loving all these things about you, no matter the reasons or the circumstances behind them.And no, I don't need days , or weeks , or months to think about why I love you.It's an easy answer for me.I love you because of you .Because of every single thing about you .”

“There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love.A first glanceA first smileA first kissA first fall ...”

“I'm not giving upYou're not giving inThis battle will turn into a warBefore I let it come to an end.”

“Twenty-two hours and our war beginsOur war of limbsand lipsand hands...The best part of finallyNot calling retreat?The showers above usRaining down on our feetWhile the bombs are exploding and the guns fire their rounds. Before the two of us collapse to the ground. Before the battle, before the war...You need to knowI'd go fifty-nine more.Whatever it takes to let you win.I'd retreat all overand overagain.”

“And if you've ever grown up with dreams in your head about life, and how one of these days you would pirate your own ship and have your own crew and that all of the mermaidswould loveonlyyou?Well, you would realize...Like I eventually realized...That all the good things about her?All the beautiful?It's not real.It's fake.So you keep your ocean,I'll take the Lake.”

“I tilt my head and ask “What firsts have wealready passed?”“The easy ones,” he says. “First hug, first date, first fight, first time we slept together,although I wasn’t the one sleeping. Now we barely have any left. First kiss. First time tosleep together when we’re both actually awake. First marriage. First kid. We’re doneafter that. Our lives will become mundane and boring and I’ll have to divorce you andmarry a wife who’s twenty years younger than me so I can have a lot more firsts andyou’ll be stuck raising the kids.” He bring his hand to my cheek and smile at me. “So yousee, babe? I’m only doing this for your benefit. The longer I wait to kiss you, the longerit’ll be before I’m forced to leave you high and dry.”

“And it's not what you just said that i am thanking you for, Holder. I need to thank you for everything. Thank you for giving me the courage to always ask the questions, even when I didn't want the answers. 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. And thank you for finally finding me after all these years.”

“Thank you for giving me the courage to always ask the questions, even when I don't want the answers.”

“I want you to know something. And I'm not saying this as your boyfriend or even as your friend. I'm saying this because it needs to be said by someone... I'm so proud of you.”

“I'm not worried about us, baby. I'm not worried about us at all.”

“I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren't you. They are just things that happen to you. You need to accept that who you are and the things that happen you, are not one and the same.”

“It's okay to feel whatever you need to feel. Just promise me that you will never, ever feel guilty. Promise me that you'll never blame yourself. It's not your fault.”

“And right now, all I can do is take his word. All I can do is take my trust and place it back into his hands. I just hope he knows that it's all the trust I have left to give him. I know for a fact that if he hurts me like he's hurt me before, it'll be the last time he ever hurts me.”

“I hate that there are so many sides of him that I don't understand, and I don't know if I even want to keep trying to understand them. There are parts of him that I love, parts of him that I hate. But there's a part of him that does nothing but disappoint me, and that's the absolute hardest part to accept.”

“It's amazing what the sound of voice you've been longing to hear can do to your heart”

“Your heart is so beautiful and someday someone is going to love that heart like it deserves to be loved.”

“I don't think you could've picked a better time to tell me you love me than tonight. So I'm happy you waited.”

“I love you so much, baby. I don't deserve to touch you until you know for a fact that I'm touching you because I love you and for no other reason.”

“Thank you for knowing exactly how to handle me, because sometimes I'm not even sure how to handle myself.”

“This kiss is just like he is - studied and never hurried.”

“If he ever hurts me again, I'll be far from just fine. I'll be broken.”

“Seeing him this close to me brings back every single feeling I've ever felt for this boy... the good and the bad.”

“The bracelet validates that my memory is a real one.”

“I can't kiss you tonight because kissing leads to the next thing, which leads to the next thing, and at the rate we're going, we'll be all out of firsts by next weekend. Don't you want to drag our firsts out a little longer?”

“Every fiber of my being knows he's a bad person but my whole body doesn't give a shit.”

“I throw my arms around his neck and let him hold me. All seventeen years of me.”

“I live you," I whisper to him. He kisses my head again and signs into my hair. "I don't think I live you back anymore. I'm pretty sure I've moved beyond that. Actually, I'm positive I've moved beyond that, but I'm still not ready to say it to you. When I say it, I want it to be separate from this day. I don't want you to remember it like this.”

“I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.”

“Whatever connection we thought we had before this...it doesn't compare to this moment. No matter what happens between us in life, this moment has just merged pieces of our souls together. Well always have that, and in a way it's comforting to know.”

“It's amazing what the sound of a voice you've been longing to hear can do to your heart. He spoke five words just now, but in the time it took him to speak those five words, my heart was shredded and minced, then placed back inside my chest with the expectation that it should somehow know how to beat again.”

“You have a nice mouth," he says. "I can't stop looking at it.""You should taste it. It's quite lovely.”

“I'm bored," he says."So go home.""I don't want to. What do you do when you're bored? You don't have Internet or TV. Do you just sit around all day and think about how hot I am?”

“Feel free to look around, but being as though there aren't any people eighteen or older here, stay off the bed. I'm not allowed to get pregnant this weekend.”

“That's all I need," I say. "Well...I need the lamp. And the astray. And the remote control. And the paddleball game. And you, Dean Holder. But that's all I need”

“Just because you blocked the memory of me out of your mind doesn't mean you blocked the memory of me out of your heart”

“The first time you kissed me?" I say. "That moment when your lips touched mine? You stole a piece of my heart that night”

“You don't deserve this life, baby, and there isn't a fucking thing I can do to make it better for you”

“My heart broke, Sky. I didn't want you to be her”

“I need to kiss you," he says again, this time a desperate plea. "Please, Sky. I'm scared that after I tell you what I'm about to tell you...I'll never get to kiss you again.”

“I told myself to just stay away from you and let you be mad at me, because I do have so many issues that I'm not ready to share with you yet. And I tried so hard to stay away, but I can't.”

“I know you're mad at me," he says, looking down at me. His eyes and his words are full of remorse, but the apology still doesn't come. "I need you to be mad at me, Sky. But I think I need you to still want me here with you even more.”

“Live. If you mix the letters up in the words like and love, you get live.”

“Real ugly endings are better than fake happily ever after's”

“Always remember there is nothing worth sharing, like the love that let us share our name.”

“And once again in my new world full of heartache and lies, this hopeless boy somehow finds a way to make me smile.”

“It’s what happens when two people become one: they no longer only share love. They also share all of the pain, heartache, sorrow, and grief.”

“I need a chapter break.”

“I look at my reflection in the mirror and I see a girl who desperately wants to forgive a boy, but not without a hell of a lot of grovelling first.”

“When I touch you, I’m touching you because I want to make you happy. When I kiss you, I’m kissing you because you have the most incredible mouth I’ve ever seen and you know I can’t not kiss it. And when I make love to you—I’m doing exactly that. I’m making love to you because I’m in love with you.”

“Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong.”