No matter how much you love someone—the capacity of that love is meaningless if it outweighs your capacity to forgive.

—Colleen Hoover in All Your Perfects

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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 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...

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Apologies are good for admitting regret, but they do very little in removing the truth from the actions that caused the regret.

—Colleen Hoover in All Your Perfects

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

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

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

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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Every living thing (and perhaps many a dead one as well) pays heed to that call. To the deer it is a reminder of the way of all flesh, to the pine a forecast of midnight scuffles and of blood upon the snow, to the coyote a promise of gleanings to come, to the cowman a threat of red ink at the bank, to the hunter a challenge of fang against bullet. Yet behind these obvious and immediate hopes and fears there lies a deeper meaning, known only to the mountain itself. Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf.

—Aldo Leopold

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When you're grieving, the times you're happy are so much more tragic than the times that you aren't. Because being happy feels fake and it feels temporary and it feels meaningless.

—Hannah Moskowitz in Invincible Summer

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How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.

—Abraham Joshua Heschel

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