Regretting You

by Colleen Hoover

I liked them because they reminded me of life. How sometimes, it feels like someone is shaking the world around you, and things are flying at you from every direction, but if you wait long enough, everything will start to calm. I liked that feeling of knowing that the storm inside always eventually settles.

I wouldn’t have lost my father—the only man I’ve ever loved.

“You don’t want to be the other girl. Trust me.”

Me: Never mind. Don’t save me under a fake name. I don’t want to be Jason in your phone and I don’t want to be your fake sibling at the movie theater. Call me someday when I can just be Clara.

“I’ve believed in you since the moment I met you. I believe in myself now that I’ve finally left you.”

The day I found out I was pregnant, I stopped living life for myself.

I think it’s time I figure out who I was meant to become before I started living my life for everyone else.

“I’ve never hated watermelon Jolly Ranchers. I only saved them because I knew they were your favorite.”

I just want to be part of everything that makes your life better.”

“But heartache builds character. Remember?” “So does being in love,” he says.

I’m confident that I’ll never spend a single second of my life regretting you.”