Colleen Hoover
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.Collection: Positive
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.
I'm very passionate about music and was excited to see that the majority of readers loved the inclusion of lyrics.
Every single person that spent a few bucks to buy a book that I wrote deserves a big thank you from my whole family.
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.
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.
Love isn't always pretty. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it'll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you're back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way.Collection: Love
Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.Collection: World
Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.Collection: Bad Day
When life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them in.Collection: Eye
Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back togetherCollection: Heartbroken
I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren't you. They are just things that happen to you. You need to accept that who you are and the things that happen you, are not one and the same.Collection: Needs
You're incredibly brave. And you're going to make it through this because you have a very strong heart. A heart that is capable of loving so much about life and people in a way you never dreamt a heart could love. And you're beautiful in here. Your heart is so beautiful and someday someone is going to love that heart like it deserves to be loved.Collection: Beautiful
We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it's somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life.Collection: People
Imperfections define perfectionCollection: Perfection
Please don't allow anyone to make you feel less than what you are.Collection: Please
God gives us the ugliness so we don't take the beautiful things in life for granted.Collection: Beautiful
Does he treat you with respect at all times? That's the first question. The second question is, if he is the exact same person twenty years from now that he is today, would you still want to marry him? And finally, does he inspire to be a better person? You find someone you can answer yes to all three, then you've found a good man.Collection: Spiritual
Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life.Collection: Judging
There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.Collection: People
I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown.Collection: Ocean
Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Beautiful
My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in a land of happily ever afters.Collection: Real
Don't take life too seriously Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit Laugh at itCollection: Life
I'm afraid if I listen to my heart once, I'll never figure out how to ignore it again.Collection: Heart
If I were a carpenter, I would build you a window to my soul. But I would leave that window shut and locked, so that every time you tried to look through it all you would see is your own reflection. You would see that my soul is a reflection of you.Collection: Love
Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.Collection: Real
Push your boundaries, that's what they're there for.Collection: Boundaries
Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong.Collection: Choices
This thing about you that you think is your flaw - it's the reason I'm falling in love with you.Collection: I Love You
Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.Collection: Common
Keep an open mind; it's the only way new things can get in.Collection: Mind
Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.Collection: Love You
Absolutely. Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. I questioned a lot about my relationship with your father. People make spontaneous decisions based off of their hearts all the time. There's so much more to relationships than just love.Collection: Regret
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.Collection: Care
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.Collection: Falling In Love
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.Collection: Your Side
You just have to choose which wrong choice feels the least wrong.Collection: Choices
I’m the only one that can be held accountable for the way my life turns out.Collection: Way
Find a balance between head and heart.Collection: Heart
It's not just lies they're referring to. It's life. You can't run to another town, another place, another state. Whatever it is you're running from-it goes with you. It stays with you until you find out how to confront it.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Pain
I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Love
It's the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly loveCollection: Beautiful
The sky is always beautiful.Even when it's dark or rainy or cloudy,it's still beautiful to look at....it'll be there no matter what...and I know it'll always be beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
Whatever connection we thought we had before this...it doesn't compare to this moment. No matter what happens between us in life, this moment has just merged pieces of our souls together. Well always have that, and in a way it's comforting to know.Collection: Soul
If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.Collection: Live Life