Poetry Quote by Colleen Hoover — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I remember one time we were walking into a grocery store and an old man was ringing a bell for the Salvation Army. I asked my dad if we could give him some money and he told me no, that he works hard for his money and he wasn’t about to let me give it away. He said it isn’t his fault that other people don’t want to work. He spent the whole time we were in the grocery store telling me about how people take advantage of the government and until the government stops helping those people by giving them handouts, the problem won’t ever go away… I believed him. That was three years ago and all this time I thought homeless people were homeless because they were lazy or drug addicts or just didn’t want to work like other people. But now I know that’s not true. Sure, some of what he said was true to an extent, but he was using the worst-case scenarios. Not everyone is homeless because they choose to be. They’re homeless because there isn’t enough help to go around. And people like my father are the problem. Instead of helping others, people use the worst-case scenarios to excuse their own selfishness and greed.”

“Sometimes we don’t get second chances, Owen. Sometimes things just end.”

“You're stressing over things that haven't even happened yet.”

“Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.”

“I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but they were not limitless. When one starts thinking of the full moon as a common sight that will come again to one’s eyes ad-infinitum, the value of life is diminished and life goes by uncherished. ‘This may be my last moon,’ I sighed, feeling a sudden sweep of sorrow; and went back to reading more of The Odyssey.”

“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”

“some see things as they are: others as they are” (p.82) ~CXCI”

“When by my solitary hearth I sit,”

“If thou must love me, let it be for naught”

“I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.”