Colleen Hoover

There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love.

— Colleen Hoover

Sometimes we don’t get second chances, Owen. Sometimes things just end.

— Colleen Hoover

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’t about to let me give it away. He said it isn’t his fault that other people don’t 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’t 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’t want to work like other people. But now I know that’s 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’re homeless because there isn’t 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.

— Colleen Hoover

There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love.

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

Truths are written, never said... Lines are drawn, but then they fade.

— Colleen Hoover

Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never.

— Colleen Hoover

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.

— Colleen Hoover

Someone asked them a question about their poetry, and whether it was hard having to relive their words each time they performed. Their reply was that although they had moved beyond that--from the person or event that inspired their words at that point in time--it doesn't mean someone listening to them wasn't in that. So? So what if heartache you wrote last year isn't what you're feeling today. It may be exactly what the person in the front row is feeling. What you're feeling now, and the person you may reach with your words five years from now--that's why you write poetry.

— Colleen Hoover

But now--it's like God has it out for us. Why both of them? Wasn't my dad enough? It's like death came and punched us square in the face.

— Colleen Hoover

Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never.

— Colleen Hoover

Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.

— Colleen Hoover

(I pull the second to last item out of my bag. Her purple hair clip. She told me once how much it meant to her, and why she always keeps it.)

— Colleen Hoover