All humans make mistakes. What determines a person's character aren't the mistakes we make. It's how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.

- from It Ends With Us book by Colleen Hoover

It isn't really love at first sight until you've been with the person long enough for it to become love at first sight.

- from Verity book by Colleen Hoover

People think women who go to prison have a certain look. That we're a certain way. But we're mothers, wives, daughters, humans. And all we want is to just catch one fucking break. Just one.

- from Reminders of Him book by Colleen Hoover

The thought of marriage repulses me. I'm almost thirty years old and I have no desire for a wife. I especially don't want children. The only thing I want out of life is success. Lots of it.

- from It Ends With Us book by Colleen Hoover

People like me belong in overpopulated cities. The state of my life is irrelevant in a place this size. There are far more people here with stories much more pitiful than mine. Here, I'm invisible. Unimportant. Manhattan is too crowded to give a shit about me, and I love her for it.

- from Verity book by 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.

- from It Ends With Us book by Colleen Hoover

Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.

- from Verity book by Colleen Hoover