Colleen Hoover Quotes

Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Lack of communication is the key to any successful relationship going wrong.

I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.

Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.

The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.

Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.

The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing.

And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.

You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.

And it was just the three of us - three bodies and two people - the three who knew what had happened and too many layers between all of us too much keeping us from one another.

I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other.

One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida.

In the end, the only thing between us was silence.

I tried to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets

We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.

With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand that I had no friends, that I was alone in the world. Because in not understanding the meaning of the words, neither I nor my friends, one thing became very clear and that was that there were ways of not understanding and that the difference between the non-understanding of one individual and the non-understanding of another created a world of terra firma even more solid than differences of understanding.

Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others.

It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.

Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.