Freya Rosewood > Freya's Quotes

“I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“No one is likable from the inside out.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“I wasn’t heroic. I wasn’t simple. I was difficult. An emotionally challenging puzzle he wasn’t up for solving.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“What you read will taste so bad at times, you’ll want to spit it out, but you’ll swallow these words and they will become part of you, part of your gut, and you will hurt because of them.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“A writer should never have the audacity to write about themselves unless they’re willing to separate every layer of protection between the author’s soul and their book. The words should come directly from the center of the gut, tearing through flesh and bone as they break free. Ugly and honest and bloody and a little bit terrifying, but completely exposed.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“It’s what you do when you’ve experienced the worst of the worst. You seek out people like you…people worse off than you…and you use them to make yourself feel better about the terrible things that have happened to you.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“The world was her manuscript. No surface was safe.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“I stretch truths where I see fit. I’m a writer.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“The good thing about sins is they don’t have to be atoned for immediately,”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“I was good at spewing bullshit. It's why I became a writer.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“I was difficult. An emotionally challenging puzzle he wasn’t up for solving.

Which was fine. I wasn’t in the mood to be solved”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“the things lurking around inside the mind can be just as dangerous as tangible threats.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“It’s natural, to assume the worst in people, even if that assumption is only for a split second”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“One should only walk away from an autobiography with, at best, an uncomfortable distaste for its author.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“Some families are lucky enough to never experience a single tragedy. But then there are those families that seem to have tragedies waiting on the back burner. What can go wrong, goes wrong. And then gets worse.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“I needed for the imaginary version of my world to be darker than my real world. Otherwise, I would have wanted to leave them both.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“The kiss was full of both desire and respect—two things a lot of men didn’t seem to know could go hand in hand.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“I’m the awkward writer who posts a picture of my book and says, “It’s an okay book. There are words in it. Read it if you want.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
― William Jennings Bryan

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Maybe freedom wasn't a state of being. Maybe it was an act of courage. Maybe freedom was defiance and sacrifice and pain, something that couldn't be won without giving away something else in return.”
― Kate Jarvik Birch, Perfected

“Sometimes it’s nice to have a little bit of imperfection, isn’t it?”
― Kate Jarvik Birch, Perfected

“It's a beautiful cage. But it's still a cage" -Penn”
― Kate Jarvik Birch, Perfected

“Betrayal cut so much deeper when you loved the hand that held the knife.”
― Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide