All Your Perfects
Colleen Hoover, 2018
A marriage told in two timelines — the ecstatic beginning and the frayed middle — for anyone who has wondered what love costs after the wedding.
Feels like longing and hope. About love.
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The loneliest version of alone is the one you learn after being loved.
I used to be fine when I was alone. But now that I have you, I’m lonely when I’m alone. Colleen Hoover.In 2022 Hoover sold more print copies in the US than any other author, according to NPD BookScan — more than a decade after she self-published her first novel in Texas.
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Questions readers ask
- What is All Your Perfects like?
- Feels like longing and hope. About love.
- What should I read after All Your Perfects?
- If you liked All Your Perfects, try Love and Other Words (Christina Lauren), The Sun Is Also a Star (Nicola Yoon) and The Night We Met (Abby Jimenez).
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What it sounds like to wait eleven years without making it an accusation.
I’ve been waiting for you to come home for eleven years. I’ll go anywhere you go.
Love and Other Words · Christina Lauren
A word for the feeling that someone is already your future.
There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.
The Sun Is Also a Star · Nicola Yoon
Some love feels less like a shelter than a match.
Maybe this isn’t the kind of love that deserves to exist. Maybe it’s the kind that wars start over. The kind that topples empires and never leaves the world better than it found it.
The Night We Met · Abby Jimenez
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