Without Merit

by Colleen Hoover

Maybe that’s part of the reason I’ve decided to go on a verbal strike. I’m tired of everything I say not having meaning to anyone. I’ll just stop talking so that when I do talk, my words will count. Right now it feels like any time I talk, my words circle right back into my mouth like a boomerang and I’m forced to swallow them again.

“Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness.”

“Tuqburni is used to describe the all-encompassing feeling of not being able to live without someone. Which is why the literal translation is, ‘You bury me.’ ”

Fallen is an understatement. It was more like collapsed. Plummeted. Crumpled at his feet. Anything but fallen.