All Your Perfects Quotes With Page Numbers. Colleen Hoover’s 2018 novel All Your Perfects depicts a marriage in crisis as a result of infertility and infidelity. Hoover is known for her contemporary romance and young adult novels, as well as psychological thrillers. All Your Perfects appeared on both the New York Times Bestseller list and USA Today’s Best Selling Books list.
The novel alternates between scenes set “Then” (when couple Quinn and Graham are just beginning their relationship) and “Now” (seven years later, when their marriage has been tested by infertility). The novel is a romance novel, but subverts many genre expectations by focusing on an established relationship in crisis.
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All Your Perfects Quotes
- “Some mornings I would wake up and catch him staring at me. He would smile and whisper, “What did I miss while you were sleeping?”.
- “Sometimes people meet and none of the surface-level stuffs matters because they see past all that”.
- “Why keep fighting for someone who is no longer fighting for you”.
- “Do you love me enough to marry me?”.
- “You’re forgetting about all our sleepless nights with Coriander, Paprika, Cinnamon, Saffron, Juniper, and Parsley.”
- “Trying to have a baby. Trying to adopt a baby. Trying to pretend we’re okay. Trying to hide from each other when we cry. It’s all our marriage has become. A whole lot of trying and not much succeeding.”
- “Sometimes I look at him and feel such an overwhelming appreciation for him, I almost want to write thank-you notes to our exes. It's the best thing that's ever happened to me.”
- “That’s one of my favorite things about him working later than me. I get to watch him take his tie off every day.”
- “If you’ve read Colleen’s Hopeless trilogy (Hopeless, Losing Hope, and Finding Cinderella), you may notice a special cameo in the Epilogue. If you know Six’s story, what could this connection potentially mean for Quinn and Graham?”
- “I'm not sure anyone has ever made me feel as beautiful as he makes me feel when he looks at me.”
- “When your presence somehow brought me to the brink of smiling during the worst moment of my life – that I knew everything would be fine.”
- “But I can't change. We are who our circumstances turn us into.”
- “It said, If you only shine light on your flaws, all your perfects will dim.”
- “Religion isn't one of my mother's strong suits, but I've always believed there was something out there greater than us. I just don't know exactly what it is. I don't think anyone knows for sure.”
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All Your Perfects Quotes With Page Numbers
- “When you meet someone who is good for you, they won’t fill you with insecurities by focusing on your flaws. They’ll fill you with inspiration, because they’ll focus on all the best parts of you.”
- “If you only shine light on your flaws, all your perfects will dim.”
- “No matter how much you love someone—the capacity of that love is meaningless if it outweighs your capacity to forgive.”
- “Until then, I will continue to love you more and more with every struggle we face than I loved you when all was perfect.”
- “The problem is, love and happiness are not concordant. One can exist without the other.”
- “I used to be fine when I was alone. But now that I have you, I’m lonely when I’m alone.”
- “I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you. I can’t wait to shine light on all your perfects.”
- “Apologies are good for admitting regret, but they do very little in removing the truth from the actions that caused the regret.”
- “Confrontation leads to action. Avoidance leads to inaction.”
- “You'll cry tonight. In bed. That's when it'll hurt the most. When you're alone.”
- “I promise to love you more when you hate me than when you love me.”
- “Gratitude is born in the struggle. And we have definitely struggled.”
- “When you associate yourself with another person for so long, it’s difficult becoming your own person again.”
- “If a scientist could figure out how to align the heart with the brain, there would be very little agony left in the world.”
- “People can’t always control who their circumstances turn them into.”
- “I love you more this year than any year that came before it.”
- “I don’t like talking about things that hurt. And lately everything hurts. Which is why I barely talk anymore.”
- “I know my life as a whole hasn’t been perfect, but I’m finally starting to appreciate all the perfect things within it.”
- “I realize now that sometimes two people can lose their hope or their desire or their happiness, but losing all those things doesn’t mean you’ve lost.”
- “Sometimes situations dont have a positive side. They just have a whole lot of sad sides.”
- “But we’re also going to have bad days and sad days and days that test our resolve. Those are the days I want you to feel the absolute weight of my love for you.”
- “Yet here he is, holding me as I cry, simply because it hurts him to see me cry.”
- “It’s the first time I don’t look at him and feel guilty for everything I can’t give him because I know how grateful he is for everything I can give him.”
- “Every day, I miss you. When I’m at work, I miss you. When I’m home, I miss you. When you’re next to me in bed, I miss you. When I’m inside you, I miss you.”
- “No matter how much you love someone – the capacity of that love is meaningless if it outweighs your capacity to forgive.”
- “The tears are nothing new, but they’re different this time. I’m not crying over something that never came to be. I’m crying for something that’s coming to an end.”
- “He is enough for me. The problem is… he could be so much more without me.”
- “He looks at me, completely defeated. 'I love you', he says quietly, shaking his head. 'I always have. No matter how much you wish I didn’t'.”
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