Quotations from the book

Confess

Colleen Hoover

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

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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.

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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.

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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.

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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.

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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.

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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.

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

About Colleen Hoover

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Margaret Colleen Hoover (née Fennell; born December 11, 1979) is an American author who primarily writes novels in the romance and young adult fiction genres. She is best known for her 2016 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 had 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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