Colleen Hoover Quotes

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

You see in others who you are.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear water of thoughts, what I watch watches me, I am the creation of what I see

I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

Madame Bovary is myself.

I try and put myself in other peoples eyes, as I dont feel I've got anything new to say about myself at 23.

The one thing I've tried to do is be insightful.

A mirror reflects what you see, and a black mirror shows the dark side of it.

I want children to look at me and see my face and I want them to see their faces reflected in mine.

We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.

What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?' She nodded. 'The firing squad.' 'That's not the whole truth. Try again.' 'Insatiability,' he said with some bitterness. 'That's oblique but altogether too simple. Once more,' she insisted. 'One more time.' He was silent for several minutes. 'The map of a country in which I only exist by virtue of the extravagance of my metaphors.' 'Now you're being too sophisticated. And, besides, what metaphors do we have in common?

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life before me, I reassembled the tableau of her words like a picture puzzle, and as I did, so my own life was rebuilt.

In storytelling you kind of put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and look at it and recognize themselves inside it. So I feel that that in and of itself is a spiritual thing.

When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn't fully human until I saw myself in your eyes." And then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it's my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.

Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.