Quotes from the book Confess by Colleen Hoover

Sometimes we don't get second chances. Sometimes things just end.

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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It's amazing how you don't realize just how alone and scared you were until you have someone by your side to support you.

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Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.

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It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.

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Not being a priority is a pretty good reason to end things.

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Surface friends' is what I call it. When your friendship is merely a facade and you're enemies on the inside.

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Sometimes people want what they can't have and confuse that with feelings for another person.

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I'm scared I'll never stop comparing my life without him to how my life was when I was with him.

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In order to be embarrassed, a person has to care about the opinions of others first.

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Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.

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When you connect with someone that fast and feel that much from their kiss, it's not so easy to just forget them when they do something to hurt you.

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She deserves so much better than what I can give her. I don't, however, think she deserves better than me. I think she would be perfect for me and I would be perfect for her, but all the bad choices I've made in my life are what she doesn't deserve to be a part of.

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I think love is a hard word to define. You can love a lot of things about a person but still not love the whole person.

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I'll love you forever. Even when I shouldn't.

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I barely know the guy, yet somehow I can feel that familiar clench of a fist gripping at my heart.

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She's crying, not because she's sad, but because she doesn't know how to express what she's feeling. She knows there aren't words good enough for this moment.

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I don't feel lost in him at all, because it's the first time I've ever felt like someone truly found me.

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I think she might be one of those people who are good at everything they do. She has a talent for life.

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About Colleen Hoover

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Margaret Colleen Hoover (née Fennell; born December 11, 1979) is an American author who writes primarily novels in the romance and young adult fiction genres. She is best known for her 2016 romance novel, It Ends with Us. Many of her works were self-published, before they were picked up by a publishing house. As of October 2022, Hoover has sold approximately 20 million books. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.

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