Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2023 Update)
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451. “I hold still against her, taking one final look at this amazing, beautiful girl beneath me. “You’re the greatest thing that’s ever happened to my life,” I whisper.”

— Colleen Hoover

452. “My mother was put through the most maddening, painful, tragic event of her life. Yet, as always, she put me first. Before her anger, her grief, the betrayal. She did everything she could to shield me from the truth, even if that meant unfairly taking the blame.”

— Colleen Hoover

453. “And I hold her for so long, I have no idea if it’s still November 9th anymore or if it’s the 10th now. But the date doesn’t matter, because I’m going to love her through every single one of them.”

— Colleen Hoover

454. “I can spend my time focusing on the perfect version of the life I’ll never have or I can spend my time enjoying the life I do have.”

— Colleen Hoover

455. “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

456. “Avoidance sounds like such a harmless word, but that one word can cause some severe damage to a relationship. We avoided so much in our marriage, simply out of fear. We avoided communicating. We avoided talking about the challenges we faced. We avoided all the things that made us the saddest. And after time, I began to avoid the other half of my life altogether. I avoided him physically, which led to emotional avoidance, which led to a lot of feelings that were left unsaid.”

— Colleen Hoover

457. “Algunos riesgos nunca valen la pena. Especialmente cuando esos riesgos te han fallado en el pasado.”

— Colleen Hoover

458. “What you want to do tonight? I read Daniel’s text and respond. Sorry. Plans. WTF, puss flap!? No! Me. You. Plans. Can’t. Pretty sure I have a date. Sky? Yep. Can I come? Nope. Can I be your date next Saturday, then? Sure, babe. Can’t wait, sugar.”

— Colleen Hoover

459. “I didn’t know hearts could literally ache like this. It hurts so much I want to reach inside and rip it out of my chest so I’ll never feel this again.”

— Colleen Hoover

460. “I wonder what people do when they have no place to go and no place to be.”

— Colleen Hoover

461. “That emptiness is being replaced with heat and flutters and heartbeats, and I hate it because it feels like I’ve just pinpointed what has caused me to feel so empty these past few weeks. Jonah. Sometimes when we’re alone, he looks at me in a way that makes me feel empty when he looks away. It’s a feeling I’ve never gotten when Chris looks at me. This realization scares me to death.”

— Colleen Hoover

462. “I think that’s the difference in the marriages that survive and the marriages that don’t. Some people think the focus in a marriage should be put on all the perfect days. They love as much and as hard as they can when everything is going right. But if a person gives all of themselves in the good times, hoping the bad times never come, there may not be enough resources or energy left to withstand those Category 5 moments.”

— Colleen Hoover

463. “Never forget how right it felt when my lips finally touched yours.”

— Colleen Hoover

464. “Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion.” – Dylan Thomas.”

— Colleen Hoover

465. “I’m content with the direction in which my life is headed, and I know if I obsess over the past, that obsession will only serve to anchor me in a place I am more than ready to move on from.”

— Colleen Hoover

466. “It’s odd when your best friend has an even better best friend.”

— Colleen Hoover

467. “I don’t feel lost in him at all, because it’s the first time I’ve ever felt like someone truly found me.”

— Colleen Hoover

468. “If I knew birthday presents made her this excited, I would have bought her one the day I met her. And every day since then.”

— Colleen Hoover

469. “I find that comforting – that being alone with me in the room still feels like being alone to him.”

— Colleen Hoover

470. “Maybe the grand gestures don’t matter nearly as much as all the inconsequential things between the two main characters.”

— Colleen Hoover

471. “I know exactly what he’s feeling, because our pain is shared now. Whatever he goes through, I feel. Whatever I go through, he feels. It’s what happens when two people become one: they no longer only share love. They also share all of the pain, heartache, sorrow, and grief.”

— Colleen Hoover

472. “After a while, I began to notice that the good moments with Brad began to outweigh all the sadness. The sadness that was my life became the moments, and my happiness with Brad became my life.”

— Colleen Hoover

473. “Sometimes it’s easy to forget how much you miss people until you see them again.”

— Colleen Hoover

474. “You are so, so beautiful, Auburn. Everywhere. Every part of you. On the outside, on the inside, when you’re beneath me, on top of me, painted on a canvas.”

— Colleen Hoover

475. “You know, you can tell a lot about a person by their taste in music.”

— Colleen Hoover

476. “My emotions are all over the place.”

— Colleen Hoover

477. “Heartbreak builds character.”

— Colleen Hoover

478. “It’s weird and normal and hot and sad and strange and I don’t really want to let go.”

— Colleen Hoover

479. “She left someone she loved so that her daughters would never think that kind of relationship was okay. She wasn’t rescued by another man – a knight in shining armor. She took the initiative to leave my father on her own, knowing she was about to embark on a completely different kind of struggle with added stress as a single mother.”

— Colleen Hoover

480. “I’m Tetris, Silas. All my pieces and parts are going to fit into all of your pieces and parts.”

— Colleen Hoover

481. “Andrew interrupts. “You’re letting her drive your car? Are you kidding me? You’ve never even let me sit behind the damn wheel!” I look over at Andrew and shrug. “You aren’t the one I’m in love with.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

483. “How is it possible that I’m already falling in love with you?”

— Colleen Hoover

484. “I didn’t marry you just for the good years. I didn’t marry you just for the amazing chemistry we have. And I’d be foolish to think our marriage could last an eternity without a few tough moments. So, while this year has been our toughest yet, I know one thing with complete certainty. I love you more this year than any year that came before it.”

— Colleen Hoover

485. “And that’s why I stay at home and write. I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me.”

— Colleen Hoover

486. “I’m scared I’ll never stop comparing my life without him to how my life was when I was with him.”

— Colleen Hoover

487. “Having depression is no more out of your control than Sagan’s intolerance to milk, or Utah’s pale skin, or Honor’s bad vision. It’s nothing to be embarrassed about. But it’s not something you can ignore or correct on your own. And it doesn’t make you abnormal. It makes you just as normal as these idiots,” he says, waving toward everyone else.”

— Colleen Hoover

488. “My grandmother looks at me and shakes her head. “He got one of those intelligent phones. Now he’s trying to twit the president.” “Smart phones,” I correct her. “And it’s tweet, not twit.” “He follows me,” my grandfather says defensively. “I’m not kidding, he really does!”

— Colleen Hoover

489. “Neither of us says I love you before we fall asleep. Sometimes two people share a silent moment that feels so deep and so powerful, a simple phrase such as I love you risks losing all prior meaning if spoken aloud.”

— Colleen Hoover

490. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

491. “I love you because of you. Because of every single thing about you.”

— Colleen Hoover

492. “So many times you’ve taken my breath away or made it feel like my heart was trapped inside my stomach. But last night was more than any fourteen-year-old boy could handle. So I took your face in my hands and I kissed you, just like I’ve been dreaming of doing for over a year now.”

— Colleen Hoover

493. “People on the outside of situations like these often wonder why the woman go back to the abuser. I read once that 85 percent of woman return to abuse situations. That was before I realise I was in one, and when I heard the stadistic, I thought it was because the women were stupid. I thought these things about my mother more than once.”

— Colleen Hoover

494. “He squeezes my hand, and I’m not sure at which point during this conversation I fell for him, but it happened. I may look like I’m casually sitting on a bed next to him, but metaphorically, I’ve melted at his feet.”

— Colleen Hoover

495. “As soon as he comes into view, I lose the war. The war I didn’t even know I was fighting. It doesn’t happen often, but when I do find a guy attractive, it’s better when it happens with a person I want it to happen with.”

— Colleen Hoover

496. “Whenever I’m around him, all I can think about is how much more I want to be around him.”

— Colleen Hoover

497. “I’m not a sucker for happily ever afters, but if these two characters don’t get theirs I might climb inside this e-reader and lock them both inside that damn garage forever.”

— Colleen Hoover

498. “In order to be embarrassed, a person has to care about the opinions of others first.”

— Colleen Hoover

499. “La gente no puede llorar por siempre, eventualmente todos nos quedamos dormidos.”

— Colleen Hoover

500. “When you connect with someone that fast and feel that much from their kiss, it’s not so easy to just forget them when they do something to hurt you.”

— Colleen Hoover