Quotes from Colleen Hoover

As an author, I want to write what I'm inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel like the books will ultimately be better if my heart is fully into what I'm writing.

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.

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.

When life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them in.

God gives us the ugliness so we don't take the beautiful things in life for granted.

Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.

If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.

I'm the only one that can be held accountable for the way my life turns out.

Every single person that spent a few bucks to buy a book that I wrote deserves a big thank you from my whole family.

I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.

When I published my first novel, 'Slammed,' I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands, The Avett Brothers. The overwhelmingly positive response from readers to those lyrics really surprised me.

With the advancement in e-reading technology, I was curious if it were possible for readers to be able to hear the actual songs while reading the book. I contacted Amazon and discussed the idea with their Kindle team, and they were very enthusiastic about it.

I'm very passionate about music and was excited to see that the majority of readers loved the inclusion of lyrics.

Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it's also one of the hardest things in the world to hold on to, and one of the easiest things to throw away.

I wonder if it's possible for people to fall in love with a person one characteristic at a time, or if you fall for the entire person at once.

It's what happens when two people become one: they no longer only share love. They also share all of the pain, heartache, sorrow, and grief.

A guy can tell a girl he's in love with her until he's blue in the face. Words don't mean anything to a woman when her head's full of doubt. You have to show her.

I'm Tetris, Silas. All my pieces and parts are going to fit into all of your pieces and parts.

As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them.

I got schooled this year by a boy. A boy that I'm seriously, deeply, madly, incredibly, and undeniably in love with. And he taught me the most important thing of all... To put the emphasis On life.

It's the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love

When I sat down and wrote the first paragraph, I was like, 'Oh, I can go with this.' I didn't do an outline. I didn't do anything. I just wrote sentence by sentence, not knowing where the story was going.

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