Ellen O'Clover > Quotes

“Maybe all healing requires is a taking of turns. Leaning on whoever has the strength in each fleeting moment.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“There’s strength in feeling your sadness, too—instead of burying it in anger.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“I mean it. Giving people we care about space to be themselves, instead of the people we want them to be, is a skill, too.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“Because that’s the thing, about hearts—broken or aching or otherwise. They don’t belong to any one time or place. We carry them with us: bruised and scabbed over, healing and changing, always and inherently our own.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“You will become people you can’t even fathom yet. I wish I could be here to meet every version of you, Rosie. I know I would love each one more than the last”
― Ellen O'Clover, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux: A Charming Young Adult Tech Romance About Fake Dating and a Viral Soulmate-Predicting App

“Not because I want him back—because I want to be someone with enough gravity for him to regret losing me.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“You didn’t waste it, Mei. Think about everything you’ve learned about yourself over the last year. What you want in a partner, and maybe some things you don’t. And how big of a love you’re capable of giving to someone else.” I try to hear the words as I say them. “You get to keep all of those things. How much better you know yourself now. That’s yours forever, and it’s so valuable.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“Henry’s voice comes softly. “Maybe I don’t want to call you what everyone else calls you.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“There’s nothing more powerful than a group of women talking about their feelings.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“That’s the thing about feelings—they don’t come with value judgments, they just are. A feeling cannot be wrong; it can only be.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Someday Daughter

“We're always just looking for each other.”
― Ellen O'Clover, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux: A Charming Young Adult Tech Romance About Fake Dating and a Viral Soulmate-Predicting App

“You can honor this feeling. Grieve the loss of something you wanted very much. But these feelings are like waves. We’re better for acknowledging them. Allow this to move you but don’t let it drag you under. It’ll pass, honey. And you’ll still be standing.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Someday Daughter

“I was so scared to lose it”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“Most of us spend our whole lives figuring out who we are, and we’re all right after all.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Someday Daughter

“his—“I want to hold your hand at every crosswalk.” I draw a long, shaking breath. “If you’ll let me.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“squeeze my eyes shut. “I think that’s my point,” I whisper. “I think maybe I’m a doormat.” “No,” Mei says emphatically. “How giving you are is one of the most special things about you.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“We heard each other in that language between two people who’ve never known a life without the other in it. He didn’t have to speak to tell me he was upset. I didn’t have to show him my hurt for him to believe it was there. When we fought, there were no teeth to it—Miller was like air, a given. He’d be there the next day, and the next.”
― Ellen O'Clover, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux: A Charming Young Adult Tech Romance About Fake Dating and a Viral Soulmate-Predicting App

“I’ve always craved validation but been horrified to ask for it. Growing up in Goldie’s shadow was a study in second place: she was good at everything”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“Giving people we care about space to be themselves, instead of the people we want them to be, is a skill, too.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“This is the worst,” Miller says. We’re a foot apart, and he doesn’t touch me. “There is no silver lining. This is impossible, and you’re going to get through it.” He doesn’t tell me it’s okay. He doesn’t say: but you’ll get through it. He gives me the gift of the truth—that if I do make it past this, it will be an and. I will be all right, and this will devastate me. Both things true at once.”
― Ellen O'Clover, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux

“There’s power in being the person someone needs—but there’s power in accepting what you need”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“Louisa,” Henry murmurs, and it sounds like goodbye. I feel the house holding us close. “I’ve been inside out, with wanting you.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“If I’m only ever a caretaker. If there’s something broken and sick inside of me.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“Pain is pain,” I say, raising my chin. “Loss is loss. You don’t get to give permission to let something hurt you—it just does.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“My dear.” Nan squeezes my hand. “There could never be too much Lou in this world.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“I was so scared to lose it, but I know now that home isn’t a place; it’s a feeling. It’s a rootedness that we make for ourselves.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“It’s always me, caring for people. Holding Mei on my couch after her breakup with Andy. Telling Kim her pain is as valid as Bea’s anger. Rushing Shani and Alfie to the vet. Falling for Henry—heartbroken in his own, permanent way. It’s all I’m capable of, maybe. Being a fixer. It’s what people want from me. I”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“We don’t have to do anything to earn it. We matter to the people who love us just by existing.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Someday Daughter

“but I know now that home isn’t a place; it’s a feeling. It’s a rootedness that we make for ourselves. The deep knowing that no matter where we go”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance

“If the power I thought I held by being needed is just a weakness; if I’ve sought out sadness in others so I don’t have to confront my own.”
― Ellen O'Clover, The Heartbreak Hotel: A Cozy Fall Romance