Without Merit (Book Quotes)

 

Title: Without Merit

Author: Colleen Hoover

Type: Novel

Chapters: 18

Characters: Merit Voss, Sagan, Honor Voss, the Voss family

If you haven’t read the book Without Merit by Colleen Hoover yet, this may be spoiler for you.

 

Quotes and Dialogues:

So,

Here are the dialogues and quotes I liked the most from the novel,

 

 

“We live in the most unusual house in the whole town, I say house because it is certainly not home. And inside this house are seven of the most unusual occupants.”

 

“I like spontaneity… There’s something freeing about refusing to stress over stressful situations. No matter how much thought or time you put into a decision, you’re still only going to be wrong or right.”

 

“I’m not the type to flirt and I’m definitely not the type to know how to reciprocate when someone flirts with me.”

 

“I’m attracted to unconventional and strange.”

 

“Stares shouldn’t have weight, but knowing his eyes are on me makes my steps feel heavier.”

 

“Why are kids so drawn to fragile things?”

 

“I appreciate that his curiosity is more important to him than following his mother’s orders.”

 

“I’m drawn to usual things.”

 

“Nothing could ever top this level of embarrassment. Nothing.”

 

“If my life were a scary movie, I’d be first to die.”

 

“I don’t like validating their negative perception of us.”

 

“My spontaneity and refusal to weigh the consequences of my decisions are my two favourite things about me.”

 

“If silence were a river, your tongue would be boat.”

 

“I’m tired of everything I say not having meaning to anyone.”

 

“It feels like any time I talk, my words circle right back into my mouth like a boomerang and I’m forced to swallow them again.”

 

“Finished and completed are two different things.”

 

“Conversation …should be a two-man sport, like a Ping-Pong match.”

 

“A person can’t help their attraction to another person, but a person can help their actions toward another person.”

 

“You merely assumed, you didn’t even try. Look from a different perspective. Don’t just look from your own two eyes.”

 

“The only reason we interact is because we live together.”

 

“Sometimes you get stuck with family members that do nothing but make mistakes they never have to apologize or pay for.”

 

“Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness.”

 

“Is it normal for a person to hate their own family this much?”

 

“There’s no such thing as a perfect family”

 

“Depression doesn’t necessarily mean a person is miserable or suicidal all the time. Indifference is also a sign of depression.”

 

“Labels are invented for people … who can’t grasp a reality outside of a defined”

 

“You live in your own version of reality.”

 

“Tugburni is used to describe the all-compassing feeling of not being able to live without someone. The literal translation means, “you bury me”.”

 

“The same two things could happen to two people, but that doesn’t mean they would experience the exact same stress over it.”

 

“We aren’t put on this earth to be carbon copies of our parents.”

 

“Peace doesn’t come to everyone in same form.”

 

“I just wish you could like yourself as much as I like you.”

 

“You need to fall in love with yourself first.”

 

 “I don’t know people as well as I think I do.”

 

“It annoys me when people try to convince other people that their anger or stress isn’t warranted if someone else in the world is worse off than them.”

 

“We are going to family therapy.”

 

“You’re learning early that life isn’t fair. Took me seventeen years.”

 

“And just like that, we come to an understanding that’s been long overdue.”

 

“Maybe that’s the root of a lot of family issues. It isn’t actually the issues people are hung up about for so long. It’s that no one has the courage to take the first step in talking about the issues.”

 

“Fallen is an understatement. It was more like collapsed. Plummeted. Crumpled at his feet. Anything but fallen.”

 

“The thought of death didn’t put fear into me, I just decided to go for it.”