Regretting You
Colleen Hoover, 2019
Romance Contemporary fictionYoung adult
A mother and daughter navigate love and loyalty after the secrets between them begin to surface.
Feels like grief and hope. About love and family.
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The promise isn’t that you’ll never be drawn to anyone else.
Attraction isn’t something that only happens once, with one person. It’s part of what drives humans. Our attraction to each other, to art, to food, to entertainment. Attraction is fun. So when you decide to commit to someone, you aren’t saying, ‘I promise I’ll never be attracted to anyone else.’ You’re saying, ‘I promise to commit to you, despite my potential future attraction to other people.’” I look at Clara. “Relationships are hard for that very reason. Your body and your heart don’t stop finding the beauty and the attraction in other people simply because you’ve made a commitment to one person. If you ever find yourself in a situation where you’re drawn to someone else, it’s up to you to remove yourself from that situation before it becomes too hard to fight. Colleen Hoover.Colleen Hoover worked as a social worker before self-publishing Slammed in 2012; reader enthusiasm online turned her into a bestseller.
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Questions readers ask
- What is Regretting You like?
- Feels like grief and hope. About love and family.
- What should I read after Regretting You?
- If you liked Regretting You, try Night Road (Kristin Hannah), If I Stay (Gayle Forman) and One Italian Summer (Rebecca Serle).
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Time doesn't heal so much as hand you something to wear over the wound.
Maybe time didn’t heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.
Night Road · Kristin Hannah
How fast an ordinary morning can become a road full of metal.
The car is eviscerated. The impact of a four-ton pickup truck going sixty miles an hour plowing straight into the passenger side had the force of an atom bomb. It tore off the doors, sent the front-side passenger seat through the driver’s-side window. It flipped the chassis, bouncing it across the road and ripped the engine apart as if it were no stronger than a spiderweb. It tossed wheels and hubcaps deep into the forest. It ignited bits of the gas tank, so that now tiny flames lap at the wet road.
If I Stay · Gayle Forman
The last thing a person says before sleep takes them.
No, no, no, Da, I’m serious,“ I slurred. ”I think I love that girl.“ ”Well, who’s this girl?“ ”She’s a river,“ I sighed and closed my eyes. ”I’m keeping her Da.
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