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41 " Find something to fill all the empty corners. "
― Colleen Hoover , Regretting You
42 " . “I’ve believed in you since the moment I met you. I believe in myself now that I’ve finally left you. "
43 " For some reason, sadness in music eases the sadness in my soul. It’s like the worse the heartache in a song is, the better I feel. Dramatic songs are like a drug, I imagine. Really bad for you, but they make you feel good. "
44 " This week proved to me that sometimes the storm doesn’t settle. Sometimes the damage is too catastrophic to be repaired. "
45 " Imagine how great we'll be when I'm finally emotionally stable. "
46 " but the things he did wrong in his life shouldn’t discredit all the things he did right "
47 " Yeah, but I really only deserve a six. "
48 " But she’s right. The dreams I have for her life aren’t nearly as important as the dreams she has for herself. "
49 " everything in my life has felt like it’s edged in sharp corners, and I’ve been tiptoeing around this world in the dark for the past month, trying not to injure myself. "
50 " I know that I loved the best versions of Jenny and Chris. But they fell in love with the worst versions of each other—the versions capable of betrayal and lies. "
51 " You’re a sacrificer. I don’t even know if that’s a real word, but that’s what you are. You do things you don’t want to do to make life better for the people around you. "
52 " I’m proud of my husband and proud of my daughter, but when I look at myself and my life separate from theirs, there’s very little I can find to be proud of. I just feel like I’m full of all this untapped potential. "
53 " My mother was put through the most maddening, painful, tragic event of her life. Yet, as always, she put me first. Before her anger, her grief, the betrayal. She did everything she could to shield me from the truth, even if that meant unfairly taking the blame. "
54 " Elijah—my son—has Chris’s fucking smile. "
55 " us. “I want a sweet creep. Found me a boyfriend yet?” “Not yet,” Miller says. “It’s only been four hours since you put in a request. "
56 " But heartache builds character. Remember?” “So does being in love,” he says. "
57 " I’m learning that sometimes you have to walk away from the fight in order to win it. "
58 " I realized tonight that love is full of so much ugliness and betrayal and maybe I don’t want anything to do with it. "
59 " I know a lot of mothers who get along just fine with their teenagers. I’m just not one of the lucky ones. Or maybe it isn’t about luck. Maybe I went wrong somewhere along the way. "
60 " 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. "