Sofia Arellano > Sofia's Quotes

“Write poorly.
Suck.
Write Awful.
Terribly.
Frightfully.
Don’t care.
Turn off the inner editor.
Let yourself write.
Let it flow.
Let yourself fail.
Do something crazy.
Write 50,000 words in the month of November.
I did it.
It was fun.
It was insane.
It was 1,667 words per day.
It was possible, but you have to turn off the inner critic off completely.
Just write.
Quickly.
In bursts.
With joy.
If you can’t write, run away.
Come back.
Write again.
Writing is like anything else.
You won’t get good at it immediately.
It’s a craft.
You have to keep getting better.
You don’t get to Juilliard unless you practice.
You want to get to Carnegie Hall?
Practice. Practice. Practice ..or give them a lot of money.
Like anything else it takes 10,000 hours to get to mastery.
Just like Malcolm Gladwell says.
So write.
Fail.
Get your thoughts down.
Let it rest.
Let is marinate.
Then edit, but don’t edit as you type.
That just slows the brain down.
Find a daily practice.
For me it’s blogging.
It’s fun.
The more you write the easier it gets.
The more it is a flow, the less a worry.
It’s not for school, it’s not for a grade, it’s just to get your thoughts out there.
You know they want to come out.
So keep at it.
Make it a practice.
Write poorly.
Write awfully.
Write with abandon and it may end up being really really good.”
― Colleen Hoover

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
― John Updike

“I’m Tetris Silas. All my pieces and parts are going to fit into all of your pieces and parts.”
― Colleen Hoover, Never Never

“The line isn't so black and white anymore. I'm pretty sure gray just became my new favorite color.”
― Colleen Hoover, This Girl

“Her eyes are like two open books and I suddenly want to devour every page”
― Colleen Hoover, Never Never

“Hearts get infiltrated.
Promises get broken.
Rules get shattered.
Love gets ugly.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“If there are two people in this world capable of finding a way to love each other, it’s us.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“When someone close to you dies, the memories and recollections of them are painful. It isn't until the fifth stage of grief that the memories of them stop hurting as much; when the recollections become positive. When you stop thinking about the person's death, and remember all of the wonderful things about their life.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“You're looking at me like you fell in love with me."
"I didn't fall in love with you. I flew.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.”
― Scott Spencer, Endless Love

“There are three questions every woman should be able to answer yes to before they commit to a man:

1. Does he treat you with respect at all times?
2. If he is the exact same person twenty years from now that
he is today, would you still want to marry him?
3. Does he inspire you to want to be a better person?”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“But the second she opened her eyes and looked at me, I knew. She was either going to be the death of me . . . or she was going to be the one who finally brought me back to life.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“I held this girl in my arms
She wrapped her tiny fingers around mine.
It was then that I realized.
She was the fusion.
The glue.
The cement that bound all my pieces together.
The piece that seals my puzzle.
The piece that completes my life.
The element that makes me who I am.
Who I was.
Who I'll one day be.
You, baby girl.
You're my final piece.”
― Colleen Hoover, This Girl

“The fact that Ridge has been honest in his conversations with me is not something he did wrong. The fact that he has feelings for me also isn’t wrong, when you know exactly how much he’s fought those feelings. People can’t control matters of the heart, Warren.

They can only control their actions, which is exactly what Ridge did. He lost control once for ten seconds, but after that, every single time temptation reared its ugly head, he walked in the other direction. The only thing Ridge has done wrong is fail to delete his messages, because by doing so, he failed to protect Maggie. He failed to protect her from the harsh truth that people don’t get to choose who they fall in love with. They only get to choose who they stay in love with.” I look up at the ceiling and blink back tears. “He was choosing to stay in love with her, Warren. Why can’t she see that? This will kill him so much more than it’s killing her.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“The more I open up to him, the more I need him. The more I admit to myself that I need him, the most it hurts to know that I still don't exactly have him.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“I know the thought of confronting your past terrifies you.It terrifies every man. But sometimes we don't do it ourselves. We do it for the people we love more than ourselves.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“I suppose if a man lived through the ugliest side of love, he might never want to experience it again.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“What rules?”

“Well, for one, I’m not allowed to break your heart,” he says. “Second, I’m also not allowed to break your damn heart. And last, I’m not allowed to fucking break your damn heart.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“People can't cry forever. Everyone eventually falls asleep.”
― Colleen Hoover

“The smaller the house, the more a family is forced to love one another.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“The pain will always be there.

So will the fear.

But the pain and fear are no longer my life. They're only moments.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“I got so schooled this year.
By a nine year old.
He taught me that it's okay to live life
a little backwards.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“Butterfly you.”
― Colleen Hoover, Point of Retreat

“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

“The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”
― Jean Shepherd

“To douchebags!" he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart," he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
― Lorraine Hansberry