Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Keep an open mind; it’s the only way new things can get in.”

— Colleen Hoover

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2. “Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.”

— Colleen Hoover

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3. “Push your boundaries, that’s what they’re there for.”

— Colleen Hoover

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4. “Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.”

— Colleen Hoover

5. “When life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them in.”

— Colleen Hoover

6. “God gives us the ugliness so we don’t take the beautiful things in life for granted.”

— Colleen Hoover

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7. “So you keep your ocean, I’ll take the Lake.”

— Colleen Hoover

8. “Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they’ll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.”

— Colleen Hoover

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9. “I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren’t you. They are just things that happen to you. You need to accept that who you are and the things that happen you, are not one and the same.”

— Colleen Hoover

10. “Your heart is so beautiful and someday someone is going to love that heart like it deserves to be loved.”

— Colleen Hoover

11. “A life of mediocrity is a waste of a life.”

— Colleen Hoover

12. “Be accepting. Of everything. People’s differences, their similarities, their choices, their personalities. Sometimes it takes a variety to make a good collection. The same goes for people.”

— Colleen Hoover

13. “Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the hardest things in the world to hold on to, and one of the easiest things to throw away.”

— Colleen Hoover

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14. “I need a chapter break.”

— Colleen Hoover

15. “Imperfections define perfection.”

— Colleen Hoover

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16. “And as hard as this choice is, we break the pattern before the pattern breaks us.”

— Colleen Hoover

17. “I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown.”

— Colleen Hoover

18. “It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”

— Colleen Hoover

19. “There will never be a maybe someday.”

— Colleen Hoover

20. “Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.”

— Colleen Hoover

21. “We try so hard to hide everything we’re really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it’s somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life.”

— Colleen Hoover

22. “Don’t take life too seriously Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit Laugh at it.”

— Colleen Hoover

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23. “Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don’t have questions, you’ll never find answers.”

— Colleen Hoover

24. “I’m the only one that can be held accountable for the way my life turns out.”

— Colleen Hoover

25. “Please don’t allow anyone to make you feel less than what you are.”

— Colleen Hoover

26. “Choose your battles, but don’t choose very many.”

— Colleen Hoover

27. “If you only shine light on your flaws, all your perfects will dim.”

— Colleen Hoover

28. “Find a balance between head and heart.”

— Colleen Hoover

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29. “The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before you were knocked down.”

— Colleen Hoover

30. “If I were a carpenter, I would build you a window to my soul. But I would leave that window shut and locked, so that every time you tried to look through it all you would see is your own reflection. You would see that my soul is a reflection of you.”

— Colleen Hoover

31. “There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.”

— Colleen Hoover

32. “Just because you blocked the memory of me out of your mind doesn’t mean you blocked the memory of me out of your heart.”

— Colleen Hoover

33. “And once again in my new world full of heartache and lies, this hopeless boy somehow finds a way to make me smile.”

— Colleen Hoover

34. “I don’t want to be someone’s second choice.”

— Colleen Hoover

35. “I’m stupid. I’m a stupid, stupid girl.”

— Colleen Hoover

36. “Every day of my life it feels as if I’m fighting my way up an escalator that only goes down. And no matter how fast or how hard I run to try to reach the top, I stay in the same place, sprinting, getting nowhere.”

— Colleen Hoover

37. “There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”

— Colleen Hoover

38. “It’s not a confession if no one reads it. It’s just an unshared secret.”

— Colleen Hoover

39. “Understanding a situation doesn’t always make it easier.”

— Colleen Hoover

40. “It’s like you came along and woke up my soul.”

— Colleen Hoover

41. “My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in a land of happily ever afters.”

— Colleen Hoover

42. “I’m afraid if I listen to my heart once, I’ll never figure out how to ignore it again.”

— Colleen Hoover

43. “You did everything you could, but sometimes all the love in the world from mothers and brothers isn’t enough to help pull someone out of their nightmare. We just need to accept that things are what they are, and all the guilt and regret in the world can’t change that.”

— Colleen Hoover

44. “Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life.”

— Colleen Hoover

45. “This thing about you that you think is your flaw – it’s the reason I’m falling in love with you.”

— Colleen Hoover

46. “Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.”

— Colleen Hoover

47. “Lily, Atlas says just keep swimming. – Ellen DeGeneres.”

— Colleen Hoover

48. “It’s crap that you’re letting on bad year determine your fate for the rest of your life.”

— Colleen Hoover

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49. “But I’ve learned over the past year what it really means to be able to miss someone. In order to miss someone, that means you were privileged enough to have them in your life to begin with.”

— Colleen Hoover

50. “When I touch you, I’m touching you because I want to make you happy. When I kiss you, I’m kissing you because you have the most incredible mouth I’ve ever seen and you know I can’t not kiss it. And when I make love to you – I’m doing exactly that. I’m making love to you because I’m in love with you.”

— Colleen Hoover