Emily Angle > Emily's Quotes

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
― Max Lucado

“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“All humans make mistakes. What determines a person's character aren't the mistakes we make. It's how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I feel like everyone fakes who they really are, when deep down we're all equal amounts of screwed up. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I take a drink of my coffee and close my eyes and cry because life can be so fucking cruel and hard, and I’ve wanted to quit living it so many times, but then moments like these remind me that happiness isn’t some permanent thing we’re all trying to achieve in life, it’s merely a thing that shows up every now and then, sometimes in tiny doses that are just substantial enough to keep us going.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“I think that’s the problem. Teenagers think their parents should have it all figured out, but the truth is, adults don’t really know how to navigate life any better than teenagers do. Your father made some big mistakes, but the things he did wrong in his life shouldn’t discredit all the things he did right. Same goes for your aunt Jenny.”
― Colleen Hoover, Regretting You

“Life is a cruel, cruel
thing, the way it picks and chooses who to bully. We’re
given these shitty circumstances and told by society that we, too, can live the American dream. But what they
don’t tell us is that dreams almost never come true.
It’s why they call it the American dream rather than
the American reality.
Our reality is that you’re dead, I’m in orientation for
a shitty job making minimum wage, and our daughter is
being raised by people who aren’t us.
Reality is depressing as fuck.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Just because someone hurts you doesn't mean you can simply stop loving them. It's not a person's actions that hurt the most. It's the love. If there was no love attached to the action, the pain would be a little easier to bear.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Just because we didn’t end up on the same wave, doesn’t mean we aren’t still a part of the same ocean.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“And as hard as this choice is, we break the pattern before the pattern breaks us.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“It was an impossible situation, a trick of society as a whole: force women to live at the mercy of whichever man wants them but shame them for anything they might do to get a man to want them.”
― Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story

“What were miracles, but science that man didn’t yet understand? And didn’t that make it all the more miraculous that the secrets of the universe were out there, codes one might decipher if smart enough, tenacious enough?”
― Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story

“IT’S THE LESSON YOUNG GIRLS EVERYWHERE were taught their entire lives—don’t be seduced by the men you meet, protect your virtue—until, of course, their entire lives depended on seduction by the right man. It was an impossible situation, a trick of society as a whole: force women to live at the mercy of whichever man wants them but shame them for anything they might do to get a man to want them. Passivity was the ultimate virtue. Heaven forbid you turn into someone like Hyacinth Coldwater. Be patient, be silent, be beautiful and untouched as an orchid, and then and only then will your reward come: a bell jar to keep you safe.”
― Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story

“Think of it like this. Attraction isn’t something that only happens once, with one person. It’s part of what drives humans. Our attraction to each other, to art, to food, to entertainment. Attraction is fun. So when you decide to commit to someone, you aren’t saying, ‘I promise I’ll never be attracted to anyone else.’ You’re saying, ‘I promise to commit to you, despite my potential future attraction to other people.’” I look at Clara. “Relationships are hard for that very reason. Your body and your heart don’t stop finding the beauty and the attraction in other people simply because you’ve made a commitment to one person. If you ever find yourself in a situation where you’re drawn to someone else, it’s up to you to remove yourself from that situation before it becomes too hard to fight.”
― Colleen Hoover, Regretting You

“Even the baby still growing in my stomach didn't belong to me.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“At least when I was in prison, I had a reason I was unable to see my daughter.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“In the end, if there's nothing good going on in your life, almost every song becomes depressing, no matter what it's about.”
― Colleen Hoover Hoover

“Whatever happens, I'll always be grateful to him for the forgiveness he gave me, whether I get it from anyone else or not.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“As much as it hurts, if they can't move past what I did to them, it isn't your job to repair or mend what's broken inside of them. It's your job to support them, and you can't do that with me in your life.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“I'm so angry at them, Kenna. This isn't fair." It isn't. But it isn't up to us. I kiss him one last time, and then I squeeze his hand and look at him pleadingly. "Don't hate them. Okay? They're giving my little girl a good life. Please don't hate them.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“I don't want to believe that there are good people and bad people, and no in-between people. I don't want to believe I'm worse than anyone else, as if there's a bucket full of evil somewhere within me that continues to refill every time it runs empty. I don't want to believe I'm capable of repeating behavior I've displayed in the past, but even after all these years, people are still suffering because of me.
Despite the devastation I've left in my wake, I am not a bad person. I am not a bad person.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“I nod, because I can do that. I forgive them. I've always forgiven them.
It's myself I've been hard on. But I think I've reached the point that forgiving myself finally feels okay.
So I do.
You're forgiven, Kenna.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“It proves that time, distance, and devastation allow people enough opportunity to craft villains out of people they don't even know. But Kenna was never a villain. She was a victim. We all were.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“It could have just been a coincidence, but it also could have been a sign. A message from wherever he is.
Maybe it doesn't matter whether something is a coincidence or a sign. Maybe the best way to cope with the loss of the people we love is to find them in as many places and things as we possibly can. And in the off chance that the people we lose are still somehow able to hear us, maybe we should never stop talking to them.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“Music still makes me think of Scotty, but thinking of Scotty no longer makes me sad. Now that I've forgiven myself, the reminders of him only make me smile.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“There was before you and there was during you. For some reason, I never thought there would be an after you.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“People say you fall in love, but fall is such a sad word when you think about it. Falls are never good. You fall on the ground, you fall behind, you fall to your death. Whoever was the first person to say they fell in love must have already fallen out of it. Otherwise, they’d have called it something much better.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him