Colleen Hoover

“It's crap that you're letting on bad year determine your fate for the rest of your life.”

“Does not-your boyfriend realize I'm Mormon?"I nod. "It turns out, Holder doesn't have an issue with Mormons at all. He just has an issue with assholes.”

“You don't deserve words, Sky. You deserve actions.”

“Breckin, this is Holder. Holder is not my boyfriend, but if I catch him trying to break the record for best first kiss with another girl, then he'll soon be my not breathing non-boyfriend.”

“Dean Holder? Messy brown hair? Smoldering blue eyes? A temper straight out of Fight Club?”

“Fuck all the firsts, Sky. The only thing that matters to me with you are the forevers.”

“Only one day at public school and the bitches already made your locker rain?" she laughs. "Impressive.”

“My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in a land of happily ever afters.”

“Breckin shrugs. “I’m new here. And if you haven’t deducted from my impeccable fashion sense, I think it’s safe to say that I’m…” he leans forward and cups his hand to his mouth in secrecy. “Mormon,” he whispers.”

“Lust is the best of all the deadly sins.”

“Anything. I'll do anything you ask me to, so long as you're shirtless.”

“It's real, Six. 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.”

“You wanted to lick my face the first time you saw me? Is that usually what you do when you’re attracted to guys?” I shake my head. “Not your face, your dimple. And no. You’re the only guy I’ve ever had the urge to lick.” He smiles at me confidently. “Good. Because you’re the only girl I’ve ever had the urge to love.”

“The sky is always beautiful.Even when it's dark or rainy or cloudy,it's still beautiful to look at....it'll be there no matter what...and I know it'll always be beautiful.”

“I want to tell you exactly how I feel but there isn’t a single goddamned word in the entire dictionary that can describe this point between liking you and loving you, but I need that word. I need it because I need you to hear me say it.”“Live. If you mix the letters up in the words like and love, you get live. You can use that word.”“I live you, Sky,” he says against my lips. “I live you so much.”

“The sky is always beautiful. Even when it’s dark or rainy or cloudy, it’s still beautiful to look at”

“The moment my lips touch yours, it will be your first kiss. Because if you've never felt anything when someone's kissed you, then no one's ever really kissed you. Not the way I plan on kissing you.”

“I want you to keep them open...because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.”

“Sky, I'm not kissing you tonight but believe me when I tell you, I've never wanted to kiss a girl more. So stop thinking I'm not attracted to you because you have no idea just how much I am. You can hold my hand, you can run your fingers through my hair, you can straddle me while I feed you spaghetti, but you are not getting kissed tonight. And probably not tomorrow, either. I need this. I need to know for sure that you're feeling every single thing that I'm feeling the moment my lips touch yours. Because I want your first kiss to be the best first kiss in the history of first kisses.”

“The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary was 'Sky'.”

“Fui educada este año por un Chico.Un chico del que estoy seriamente, profundamente, locamente,increíblemente e indudablemente enamorada....Y me enseñó lo más importantede todas las cosas...A poner énfasis Sobre la vida.”

“La vida sabe.La vida está tratando de decirmeque la chica que amo,¿La chica de la que me enamorétan fuertemente?Hay sitio para ella en primer lugar.”

“A mis niños, Feliz Navidad.Lo siento si estas cartas los han tomado a ambos por sorpresa. Es sólo que hay tantas cosas más que tengo que decir. Sé que pensabas que estaba hecha para dar consejos, pero no podía irme sin reiterar algunas cosas por escrito.Puedes no estar relacionada con estas cosas ahora, pero algún día lo estarás. No era capaz de estar ahí para siempre, pero espero que mis palabras puedan.-No dejes de hacer basaña. La basaña es buena. Espera hasta un día cuando no existan malas noticias, y hornea una maldita basaña.-Encuentra un equilibrio entre la cabeza y el corazón. Espero que hayas encontrado eso, Lake, y puedas ayudar a Kel a resolverlo cuando llegue a ese punto.-Presiona tus límites, para eso están.-Estoy robando este fragmento de tu banda favorita, Lake. “Recuerda siempre que no hay nada que valga la pena compartir, como el amor que nos deja compartir nuestro nombre.”-No tomes la vida tan en serio. Dale un puñetazo en la cara cuando necesite un buen golpe. Ríete de eso.-Y ríe mucho. Nunca pases un día sin reír al menos una vez.-Nunca juzgues a otros. Ambos saben muy bien cómo acontecimientos inesperados pueden cambiar lo que una persona es. Siempre ten eso en mente. Nunca se sabe lo que otra persona está experimentando en su propia vida.-Cuestiona todo. Tu amor, tu religión, tus pasiones. Si no tienes preguntas, nunca encontraras respuestas.-Acepta. De todo. Las diferencias de las personas, sus semejanzas, sus elecciones, sus personalidades. A veces se necesita una variedad para hacer una buena colección. Lo mismo va para las personas.-Escoge tus batallas, pero no elijas muchas.-Mantén una mente abierta; es la única manera en que cosas nuevas pueden entrar.-Y por último, pero no menos importante, ni un poquito menos importante. Nunca te arrepientas.Gracias a los dos por haberme dado los mejores años de mi vida.Especialmente el último.Con amor,Mamá.”

“He's holding onto me, but this time it feels like he's holding onto me because his earth has shifted off its axis, and I'm his core.”

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

“There are three questions every woman should be able to answer yes to before they commit to a man. If you answer no to any of the three questions, run like hell."[...]"Does he treat you with respect at all times? That's the first question. The second question is, if he is the exact same person twenty years from now that he is today, would you still want to marry him? And finally, does he inspire to be a better person? You find someone you can answer yes to all three, then you've found a good man.”

“Sometimes life gets in your way. it gets all up in your damn way. But it doesn't get all up in your damn waybecause it wants you to just give up and let it take control. Life doesn't get all up in your damn way because it just wants you to hand it all over and be carried along. Life wants you to fight itLearn how to make it your own. it wants you to grab and axe and hack through the wood. It wants you to get a sledgehammer and break through concrete. It wants you to grab a torch and burn through the metal and steel until you can reach through and grab it. Life wants you to grab all the organized, the alphabetized, the chronological, the sequenced. It wants you to mix it all together, stir it up, blend it.”

“Life wants you to fight it.Learn how to make it your own. ”

“—No vas a esperarme. No dejaré que renuncies al año que debería ser el mejor año de tu vida. Yo tuve que madurar mucho más rápido. No voy a quitarte eso a ti, también. No es justo. No quiero que me esperes, Layken.”

“—Hay tres preguntas que toda mujer debe ser capaz de responder afirmativamente antes de comprometerse con un hombre. Si tu respuesta es no a alguna de las tres preguntas, corre como el infierno.—Es sólo una cita —me río—. Dudo que vayamos a hacer algún compromiso.—Sé que no lo harás, Lake. Hablo en serio. Si no puedes responder sí a estas tres preguntas, ni siquiera pierdas el tiempo en una relación.Cuando abro mi boca, siento como que estoy reforzando el hecho de que soy su niña. No la interrumpo de nuevo.—¿Él te trata con respeto en todo momento? Esa es la primera pregunta. La segunda pregunta es, si es exactamente la misma persona dentro de veinte años que es hoy, ¿todavía querrías casarte con él? Y por último, ¿hace que quieras ser una mejor persona? Si encuentras a alguien que te haga responder afirmativamente a las tres, entonces has encontrado un buen hombre.”

“I've learned some thing about my heart.It can break.It can ripped apart.It can harden and freeze.It can stop. Completely.It can shatter in to million pieces.It can explode.It can die.The only thing that made it start beating again?The moment you open your eyes”

“My suck was losing my best friend to an eleven year old.”

“It's like you came along and woke up my soul”

“People can't cry forever. Everyone eventually falls asleep.”

“We've got an entire lifetime ahead of us to do things like get married. But sometimes things in people's lives don’t happen in chronological order like they should. Especially in our lives. Our chronological order got mixed up a long time ago.”

“Lake, I don't know what it is about you...but I like you.”

“What you’re feeling now, and the person you may reach with your words five years from now-that's why you write poetry.”

“I know how you like to be asked and not told. But I'm not asking you to marry me...I'm telling you to marry me, Lake.. because I can't live without you.”

“It wasn't death that punched you, Layken. It was life. Life happens. Shit happens. And it happens a lot. To a lot of people.”

“God Layken. How do you do it? she says. She blows her nose and grabs another tissue out of the box. How do I do what? I sniff as I continue to wipe the tears from my eyes. How do you not fall in love with him? The tears begin flowing just as quickly as they had ceased. I grab yet another tissue. I don't not fall in love with him. I don't not fall in love with him a lot!”

“She's not trying to prepare us for her death. She's trying to prepare us for her life. For what she has left of it." ~ Slammed”

“Imperfections define perfection”

“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.”

“My heart pounds against my chest. Not because I'm nervous. Not even because I want her worse that I've ever wanted her before. It's pounding against my chest because I realize I've never been so sure about the rest of my life than I am in this moment. This girl is the rest of my life.”

“He got one of those intelligent phones. Now he's trying to twit the President.”

“I love being with yo so badWhen we aren't together, I miss you so badOne of these days I'm going to marry you so badand it'll besoso good.”

“Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.”

“Choose your battles, but don't choose very many.”

“respect the hand that I was dealt. And to be grateful I was even dealt a hand.”

“If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.”