November 9 (Book Quotes)

Title: November 9

Author: Colleen Hoover

Type: Novel

Published: 2015

Characters: Fallon O’Neil, Benton James Kessler, Amber.

 

If you haven’t read the novel November 9 by Colleen Hoover yet, this may be a spoiler for you.

 

Quotes and Dialogues:

 

So,

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

 

“I am translucent, aquatic.

Drifting, aimless.

She is and anchor, sinking in my sea.”

 

“No matter how many times I’ve looked in a mirror, I still haven’t grown used to what I see.”

 

“I want so badly to believe him. If I could believe everything he’s saying, then maybe my life would mean a whole lot more to me than it does right now… Maybe I would be doing the exact thing my mother says a girl my age should be doing: finding out who I really am. Not hiding myself. Hell, I am not dressing for myself I dress in what I think other people would prefer I wear.”

 

“It’s sad that I’d rather be greeted by an empty booth than by my own father.”

 

“Her tears and my soul, they live parallel lives.

Run, ache, burn.

Repeat.

Her tears and my soul, they live parallel lives.”

 

“When you swing upon a memory

So dark and far away

You get caught upon a mystery

That guides you through the day.

Although you’re standing weak

And don’t know your way around

I will always be there

For you when you’re down.”

 

“She “loved me” in quotations

She kissed me in bold

I TRIED TO KEEP HER in all caps

She left with an ellipsis…”

 

“In her darkness, she is silent.

In my darkness, she screams.”

 

“My flaws are draped in her mercy

Revered by her false perception

And with her lips upon my skin

She will undress my deception.”

 

“Fate.

A word meaning destiny.

Fate.

A word meaning doom.”

 

“If lies were written, I would erase them

But they are spoken; etched within

With convalesced truth, I scream out my atonement

Let me repent against your skin.”

 

“I don’t usually notice people… However, this guy’s eyes are intense, curious and staring straight at me.”

 

“Despite him looking like he doesn’t have one iota of self-absorption, he’s one of the most attractive guys I’ve ever seen.”

 

“My pulse is raging. Can’t he at least pretend to support one of my decisions?”

 

“You make me want to swear off men forever.”

 

“Seriously? Where was I when they were assigning decent fathers?”

 

“Why do I always stoop to his level? I’m better than this.”

 

“But if it means she’s following her dream. I’ll be the first to make sure she’s on her flight.”

 

“If your daughter is as talented as you claim she is, wouldn’t you want to encourage her not to give up on her dreams? Why would you want her to see the world the way you do?”

 

“I should have been gone. I should have left half an hour ago. Coulda, shoulda, woulda.”

 

“I don’t even think she realizes she’s doing it.” It seems like such a natural reaction for her to try and cover up what she sees as flaws.”

 

“People who don’t take care of themselves don’t have nails as clean as yours.”

 

“I’m sure it’s easier for her to give people the answers they hope to hear, rather than an earful of truth.”

 

“She’s probably the most loyal person I’ve ever met.”

 

“I didn’t think you needed rescuing. I just sometimes find it difficult to control my indignation in the presence of absurdity.”

 

“This is one of the few moments I’m actually thankful for the plethora of bad decisions I tend to make.”

 

“I’m still attempting to discern if she’s got an incredible deadpan wit, or absolutely no personality at all. There’s a fine line between the two.”

 

“An infectious burst of laughter meets my ears, and I’ve never been more thankful to have a semi-decent sense of humor. I’m not allowing this girl to leave my sight until I get at least three or four more of those laughs out of her.”

 

“An odd question, but I go with it. Odd seems completely normal with this girl."

 

“I hate ice cream. I hate yogurt. I especially hate yogurt pretending to be ice cream.”

 

“It doesn’t take a paycheck to validify that you’re a writer.”

 

“I’m not very good with on-the-spot motivational speech.”

 

“That is by far the best response I’ve ever gotten to that story.”

 

“Surely guys aren’t as shallow as she’s implying. If so, I’m embarrassed on behalf of all men.”

 

“People say not to judge a book by its cover, but what if you somehow read the inside of the book without seeing the cover first? And what if you really liked what was inside that book?

 

“You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else.”

 

“It feels like I’m packing up all the things I just unpacked.”

 

“Please don’t tell me you’re one of those pretentious readers who judge people by the books they like.”

 

“It’s called fiction for a reason.”

 

“People want to stare at you. Believe me, I’m one of them. But when everything about you screams, ‘Look away,’ then that’s exactly what people are going to do.”

 

“It’s the worst time in the world for me to get emotional, but I guess tears aren’t known for their impeccable timing.”

 

“Why the hell does luck exist if I’m not supposed to push it?”

 

“I can’t tell what’s different about her because it doesn’t even look like she’s wearing makeup, but she somehow looks even more beautiful than before.”

 

“People can’t miss what they’ve never been introduced to.”

 

“I want to make sure I know who I am and what I want out of life before I allow myself to fall in love. Because it’s easy to fall in love… The hard part comes when you want out.”

 

“Falling in love may not be a conscious decision, but removing yourself from the situation before it happens is.”

 

“Guys don’t say no to a girl like her, no matter how unappealing relationships are to him.”

 

“One of the things I always try to remind myself is that everyone has scars… A lot of them even worse than mine. The only difference is that mine are visible and most people’s aren’t.”

 

“Comfort can sometimes be a crutch when it comes to figuring out your life. Goals are achieved through discomfort and hard work. They aren’t achieved when you hide out in a place where you’re nice and cozy.”

 

“I have longed to move away but am afraid; some life, yet unspent, might explode.”

 

“If people are laughing at you, it means you’re putting yourself out there to be laughed at. Not enough people have the courage to even take that step.”

 

“He’s always saying things that seem so simple, yet profound at the same time.”

 

“I don’t know that I’ve ever genuinely laughed this much with one person.”

 

“We’ll meet every November 9^th. Absolutely no contact in between, though.”

 

“Whether or not the couple ends up together at the end of a book doesn’t determine whether that book has a happy ending or not. As long as the two people end up happy, it doesn’t really matter if they end up happy together.”

 

“I don’t know what I grow more tired of. The scars on my face or the self-deprecating thoughts in relation to the scars on my face.”

 

“Since when did flattery become embarrassing? Maybe it always has been but I just haven’t been flattered enough to know.”

 

“I have to do this. I have to force myself to make a life before the one I’m not living swallows me whole.”

 

“I know she deserved better than what I gave her.”

 

“It’s November 9^th or nothing, remember?”

 

“When a hot guy talks books with a girl, it’s like sexting.”

 

“I am not anything like the guys you read about.”

 

“Just because I like reading about those kinds of guys, doesn’t mean I need my real-life guys to act like that.”

 

“You made me feel pretty. Like I didn’t have any scars… You made me feel like the scars were part of what made me pretty. And I’ve never once felt like that, nor did I think I’d ever feel like that.”

 

“He’s looking at me like I’m a beautiful mess, and I’m not going to allow myself to question that. Because I am.”

 

“It makes me want to go back and reread everything I’ve ever read, now that I’m experiencing these things with someone in real life.”

 

“You’re so gorgeous, ‘cause you make me feel gorgeous.”

 

“I thought I was tougher than a word… but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do.”

 

“There are a lot of competitive people in this world, and I’ve discovered I’m not really one of them.”

 

“I think having to interact with all the visitors is the worst part of this whole family-member-death thing.”

 

“Away from everyone in the world I don’t want to see or speak to right now.

She’s the only one I wanted with me today, and here she is. Just for me.”

 

“I don’t know why I’m being so defensive. I think writers just naturally become defensive when their ideas are compared to other ideas, even if it’s done innocently.”

 

“People don’t do gross things like that unless they’re in love.”

 

“I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to burden anyone, but I’m scared I can’t do this on my own.”

 

“I don’t want to be the reason he doesn’t finish what he started out to do.”

 

“You can’t just agree to love me, and then take it back because you think it’s not what’s best for me. That’s not how this works.”

 

“She’s not the king of girl you choose your battles for. She’s the kind of girl you fight to the death for.”

 

“When you find love, you take it. You grab it with both hands and you do everything in your power not to let it go. You can’t just walk away from it and expect it to linger until you’re ready for it.”

 

“If I were to put the week’s emotions on a graph chart, it would look like tidal waves.”

 

“All I care about is you. Being with you every day. Seeing you every day. I’m not finished falling in love with you yet.”

 

“Do you want me to be a part of your life on more than just November 9^th?”

 

“It shouldn’t be that way. Not yet. We need to finish what we started.”

 

“So even though mistakes were made, I don’t have any regrets. I think things are working out exactly as they should.”

 

“It’s clear that I know, and he does nothing to dismiss my assumption.”

 

“I would never want to be with anyone because I had to beg. I don’t even want to be with anyone if there’s even a remote possibility that there’s a third party at play. Love should be between two people, and if it isn’t, I’d rather bow out than take part in the race.”

 

“I’m not one to believe things happen for a reason, so I refuse to believe it was our fate not to end up together.”

 

“I don’t hate him, I just don’t like him.”

 

“I want to hate him. My life would be so much easier if I could hate him.”

 

“I shake my head back and forth with immense effort in order to ensure I don’t accidentally nod.”

 

“There’s a fine line between confidence and cockiness.”

 

“I’m in love with her. Like, really in love with her. Crippling, debilitating, paralyzing love.”

 

“I need you to know that it was always you who had my heart. And I would have never let anyone else borrow it if I knew there was a chance in hell you’d ever want it back.”

 

“Things are great. The only thing not going right in my life is the fact that you aren’t a part of it every single day.”

 

“To begin, at the beginning.”

 

“It took four years for me to fall in love with him.

It only took four pages to stop.”

 

“I just lived through the longest minute of my life.”

 

“I’m taking the day off from the world.”

 

“Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t most of the time it doesn’t.”

 

“Because when you love someone, you owe it to them to help them be the best version of themselves that they can be. And as much as it crushes me to admit this, the best version of you doesn’t include me.”

 

“You aren’t the only one who was scarred… Just because he chose not to show you his scars doesn’t mean they don’t exist.”

 

“Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, and death shall have no dominion.”

 

“Though Lovers be lost, love shall not.”

 

“When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”

 

“When it comes to a battle between your adrenaline and your conscience, adrenaline always wins.”

 

“I’ve never loved someone I hate so much, and I’ve never hated someone I love so much.”

 

“We don’t get to choose our parents, and parents don’t get to choose their children. But we do get to choose how hard we’re willing to work in order to make the best of what we’re given.”

 

“Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.”

 

“I’m suffocating with hatred.”

 

“After the first death, there is no other.”

 

“Somebody’s boring me, I think it’s me.”

 

“Every day I wake up and I tell myself that today will be better.”

 

“Everything hurts.”

 

“I’d always pictured her to be this meek, quiet girl, wallowing in self-pity. But she sounds like a firecracker.”

 

“I’ll be damned if I allow this girl to spend one more second without someone defending her in a proper way.”

 

“But anyone who sees your scars before they see you doesn’t deserve you.”

 

“A body is simply a package for the true gifts inside. And you are full of gifts. Selflessness, kindness, compassion. All the things that matter.”

 

“Youth and beauty fade. Human decency doesn’t.”

 

“Not the end.

Far from it.”