Reminders of Him’ by Colleen Hoover, is about Kenna, a young woman recently released from prison,
She tries to navigate life’s complexities, regain custody of her daughter, and rebuild her world.
When she crosses paths with Ledger, a man connected to her tumultuous past, they must confront heartache, forgiveness, and their undeniable chemistry.
As secrets unravel and relationships are tested, Kenna and Ledger discover that love and redemption are closer than they could have imagined.
Reminders of Him Quotes With Page Numbers
“I want to learn how to talk to people without wishing I could retract every word I said.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 3, Page 15
“I take a drink of my coffee and close my eyes and cry because life can be so fucking cruel and hard, and I’ve wanted to quit living it so many times, but then moments like these remind me that happiness isn’t some permanent thing we’re all trying to achieve in life, it’s merely a thing that shows up every now and then, sometimes in tiny doses that are just substantial enough to keep us going.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 3, Page 16
“happiness isn’t some permanent thing we’re all trying to achieve in life, it’s merely a thing that shows up every now and then, sometimes in tiny doses that are just substantial enough to keep us going.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 3, Page 16
“Her face is a work of art. I wish there was a picture of it hanging on a wall in a museum somewhere so I could stand in front of it and stare at it for as long as I wanted.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 4, Page 18
“When our fingers touch, I feel something else trapped in my chest other than my voice. Maybe it’s a few extra heartbeats. Maybe it’s an erupting volcano.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 4, Page 19
“People say you fall in love, but fall is such a sad word when you think about it. Falls are never good. You fall on the ground, you fall behind, you fall to your death. Whoever was the first person to say they fell in love must have already fallen out of it. Otherwise, they’d have called it something much better.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 5, Page 29
“I miss you all the time, even when we’re together.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 5, Page 29
“She’s quiet in a fierce way—a storm that sneaks up on you, and you don’t know it’s there until you feel the thunder rattle your bones.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 6, Page 30
“have a daughter I have never held. She has a scent I have never smelled. She has a name I have never yelled. She has a mother who has already failed. Love, Kenna”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 7, Page 46
“Crying seems to be the only thing left in life that I’m good at. Crying and making bad decisions.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 7, Page 46
It Ends With Us Quotes With Page Numbers
“I don’t like that the one person I dislike most in this world reminds me of the person I love the most.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 12, Page 81
“So, you decide right now, right here. Are you gonna live in your sadness or are you gonna die in it?”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 13, Page 89
“Here’s the thing. It shouldn’t matter if a mother isn’t perfect. It shouldn’t matter if she’s made one big, horrible mistake in the past, or a lot of little ones. If she wants to see her child, she should be allowed to see her, even if it’s just once.
I know from experience that if you’re going to grow up with an imperfect mother, it’s better to grow up knowing your imperfect mother is fighting for you than to grow up knowing she doesn’t give a shit about you.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 15, Page 101
“Is that . . . is that a f**** pigeon?”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Scotty Landry, Chapter 16, Page 110
“Life is a cruel, cruel thing, the way it picks and chooses who to bully. We’re given these shitty circumstances and told by society that we, too, can live the American dream. But what they don’t tell us is that dreams almost never come true. It’s why they call it the American dream rather than the American reality. Our reality is that you’re dead, I’m in orientation for a shitty job making minimum wage, and our daughter is being raised by people who aren’t us. Reality is depressing as f***.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 17, Page 116
“Reality is depressing as f***.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 17, Page 116
“I never even got to look into the eyes of the human Scotty and I made.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 20, Page 139
“It’s as if I’m witnessing her become a mother. It might be the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 20, Page 140
“Sometimes I wonder what Scotty would think if he could see us. It makes me hope that an afterlife doesn’t exist, because if it does, Scotty is probably the only sad person in heaven.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 20, Page 140
It Starts With Us Quotes With Page Numbers
“Regret keeps you stuck on pause. So does prison. When you get out of here, make sure you hit play so you don’t forget to move forward.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 21, Page 144
“In the end, if there’s nothing good going on in your life, almost every song becomes depressing, no matter what it’s about.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 24, Page 177
“I don’t know what to do with these feelings, so I wad them up and try to keep them stuffed in my throat, or my stomach, or wherever people tuck away this shit”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 26, Page 186
“He smells like limes and bad decisions.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 27, Page 192
“How many losses can one person take before they just throw in the fucking towel, Scotty? Because it sure is starting to feel like I’m all out of wins, here.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 27, Page 196
“In a matter of a few weeks, I went from hating you to liking you to wanting the world for you, so forgive me if those feelings sometimes overlap.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 31, Page 220
Verity Quotes With Page Numbers
“We’re all just a bunch of sad people doing what we have to do to make it until tomorrow.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 32, Page 231
“We’re all just a bunch of sad people doing what we have to do to make it until tomorrow. Some of us sadder than others. Some of us more willing to forgive than others. Grudges are heavy, but for the people hurting the most, I suppose forgiveness is even heavier.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 32, Page 231
“Grudges are heavy, but for the people hurting the most, I suppose forgiveness is even heavier.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 32, Page 231
“Sometimes things seem good and perfect in the moment, but when you get hours of reflection afterward, the perfection can morph into something else.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 32, Page 232
“A good person who had one bad night. It happens to the best of us. The worst of us. All of us. Some of us are just luckier than others, and our bad moments have fewer casualties.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 32, Page 235
“You were more than I deserved, even though you’d argue with that.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 33, Page 236
“surely no one dies when they’re at their happiest.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 33, Pages 240- 41
“no matter how much you love someone, you can still do despicable things to them.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 33, Page 245
“It was a stark realization that no matter how much you love someone, you can still do despicable things to them.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 33, Page 245
“There was before you and there was during you. For some reason, I never thought there would be an after you.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 33, Page 248
“There are people who find peace in forgiveness, and then there are others who look at forgiveness as a betrayal. To them, forgiving me would feel like betraying their own son. I can only hope they change their minds someday, but until then, this is my life. This is where it’s led me.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 38, Page 288
“I am going to be the best person I can be for your daughter. I promise. I’m going to give her the best life, and when she asks about her mother, I’m going to tell her what a wonderful person you are. I’ll make sure she grows up knowing how much you love her.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 38, Page 289
“It’ll be hard to read. But I’m not asking you to read it because I’m in love with Kenna. I’m asking you to read it because your son was in love with her.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 39, Page 294
“Sometimes I wonder if we’re all born with equal amounts of good and evil. What if no one person is more or less malevolent than another, and that we all just release our bad at different times, in different ways?”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 40, Page 296
“We go forward. That’s it. It’s that simple.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 40, Page 308
“You’re forgiven, Kenna.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 40, Page 308
“It proves that time, distance, and devastation allow people enough opportunity to craft villains out of people they don’t even know.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 41, Page 310
“I learned that putting too much focus on a girl’s looks can be damaging, so instead of telling Diem how pretty I think she is, I put the focus on all the things that matter, like how smart she is and how strong she is.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 41, Page 313
“Happiness looks good on you, Kenna.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 41, Page 314
“Maybe it doesn’t matter whether something is a coincidence or a sign. Maybe the best way to cope with the loss of the people we love is to find them in as many places and things as we possibly can. And in the off chance that the people we lose are still somehow able to hear us, maybe we should never stop talking to them.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 41, Page 315
“Maybe the best way to cope with the loss of the people we love is to find them in as many places and things as we possibly can.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Ledger Ward, Chapter 41, Page 315
“sometimes we do things for people we love, even though we wouldn’t choose to do those things for ourselves.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 42, Page 317
“Now that I’ve forgiven myself, the reminders of him only make me smile.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 42, Page 318
“Music still makes me think of Scotty, but thinking of Scotty no longer makes me sad. Now that I’ve forgiven myself, the reminders of him only make me smile.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Kenna Rowen, Chapter 42, Page 318
“Reading is a hobby, but for some of us, it’s an escape from the difficulties we face. To all of you who escape into books, I want to thank you for escaping into this one.”
~Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him, Acknowledgements, Page 323