When women say they’ve been to prison, people think trash, whore, addict, thief. – from Reminders of Him book by Colleen Hoover Prison is really drab and colorless, and after a while, you start to forget what the trees look like in the fall. I take the responsibility of naming things very seriously. I may not have killed him with my actions, but I definitely killed him with my inaction. – from Reminders of Him book by Colleen Hoover – #colleen-hoover-quotes And then maybe there are those who expend very little malice until they’re adults, and even then, it just seeps out slowly. What if no one person is more or less malevolent than another, and that we all just release our bad at different times, in different ways? Maybe some of us expel most of our bad behavior as toddlers, while some of us are absolute horrors during the teenage years. Sometimes I wonder if we’re all born with equal amounts of good and evil.
There are people who find peace in forgiveness, and then there are others who look at forgiveness as a betrayal.
Sometimes things seem good and perfect in the moment, but when you get hours of reflection afterward, the perfection can morph into something else. You don’t want to be around me if I haven’t had it. Grudges are heavy, but for the people hurting the most, I suppose forgiveness is even heavier. But what they don’t tell us is that dreams almost never come true.
We’re given these shitty circumstances and told by society that we, too, can live the American dream. Religion is a social construct created by societies who wanted to regulate their people. – from Reminders of Him book by Colleen Hoover – #love-quotes, #colleen-hoover-quotes Otherwise, they’d have called it something much better. Whoever was the first person to say they fell in love must have already fallen out of it. You fall on the ground, you fall behind, you fall to your death. People say you fall in love, but fall is such a sad word when you think about it. – from Reminders of Him book by Colleen Hoover – #happiness-quotes, #colleen-hoover-quotes Happiness isn’t some permanent thing we’re all trying to achieve in life, it’s merely a thing that shows up every now and then, sometimes in tiny doses that are just substantial enough to keep us going.
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