All Your Perfects

by Colleen Hoover

I crack open my cookie and slip the fortune out of it. “If you only shine light on your flaws, all your perfects will dim.”

Originally, this book was going to be called, “All Your Perfections.” There were many variations of this line in the beginning, but once I began writing the scene this quote appeared in, I changed “Perfections” to “Perfects.” I had received a fortune cookie earlier that day and a word was grammatically incorrect, so I pulled from that experience as I was writing the scene. Sometimes small things in my life end up in my books. I think that’s inevitable with any book an author writes. It’s hard not to find inspiration in everyday things, no matter how small or insignificant. Little did I know that day when I went out to lunch, my fortune would inspire this quote and eventually the title. The whole quote sets the tone of the book for me and it was important that it appear in the first chapter. It takes Quinn and Graham years to come full circle and really feel the magnitude of that quote, but they eventually get there.