Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “He inhales a shaky breath while looking down at my mouth. ‘You make it so hard to breathe.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

453. “I realized tonight that love is full of so much ugliness and betrayal and maybe I don’t want anything to do with it.”

— Colleen Hoover

454. “Loving someone doesn’t just include that person, Ben. Loving someone means accepting all the things and people that person loves, too.”

— Colleen Hoover

455. “Ten years from now on August eighth, I’m going to roll over in our bed at midnight and whisper, ‘I told you so’ in your ear.”

— Colleen Hoover

456. “He stared down at me, our mouths thisclose, and I could swear he was already imagining what life with me would be like. You can’t look at someone the way he looked at me – with the entirety of his past – without also imagining the future.”

— Colleen Hoover

457. “How can a fifteen-year old girl defend her love when that love is dismissed by everyone? It’s impossible to defend yourself against inexperience and age. And maybe they’re right. Maybe we don’t know love like an adult knows love, but we sure as hell feel it.”

— Colleen Hoover

458. “You’re a sacrificer. I don’t even know if that’s a real word, but that’s what you are. You do things you don’t want to do to make life better for the people around you. Like being the designated driver. That doesn’t make you boring. It makes you a hero.”

— Colleen Hoover

459. “I don’t like that I was never fully able to let go of him, no matter how hard I tried.”

— Colleen Hoover

460. “I nod and hope he backs the hell away from me, because I’m about to have an asthma attack and I don’t even have asthma.”

— Colleen Hoover

461. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

462. “Love. Love is not found. Love finds.”

— Colleen Hoover

463. “Heartbreak builds character.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

465. “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

466. “He looks at me, completely defeated. ‘I love you’, he says quietly, shaking his head. ‘I always have. No matter how much you wish I didn’t’.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

468. “It’s not so easy when you’re trying to win a war against the heart.”

— Colleen Hoover

469. “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

470. “Trust your gut. Not your heart, because it’s a people pleaser, and not your brain, because it relies too heavily on logic.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

472. “I press my lips to hers with such delicacy; I want her to feel everything she’s ever deserved to feel at the hands of someone else. She deserves to feel beautiful. She deserves to feel important. She deserves to feel cared for. She deserves to feel respected. She deserves to feel like there’s at least one other person in this world who accepts her for exactly who she is.”

— Colleen Hoover

473. “I was too mad. I’m not even sure who I’m mad at. I just kept thinking about our country and the whole world and how screwed up it is that people don’t do more for each other.”

— Colleen Hoover

474. “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

475. “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

476. “And every time you look in the mirror, you don’t have the right to hate what you see. because you survived when a lot of people don’t get that lucky.”

— Colleen Hoover

477. “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

478. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

480. “People can’t always control who their circumstances turn them into.”

— Colleen Hoover

481. “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

482. “I’m the awkward writer who posts a picture of my book and says, “It’s an okay book. There are words in it. Read it if you want.”

— Colleen Hoover

483. “Her lips are in close proximity to mine, so of course I have to kiss them.”

— Colleen Hoover

484. “For six years we lived in this perfect world where adults are always right and bad things don’t happen don’t happen to good people. Then, in the span of a minute, you were taken and everything we knew turned out to be this false image of life that our parents had built for us. We realized that day that even adults do horrible things.”

— Colleen Hoover

485. “Finalmente alcanzamos la orilla.”

— Colleen Hoover

486. “Love is real and sometimes it’s ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.”

— Colleen Hoover

487. “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

488. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

490. “Remember a few months ago when I told you sometimes we have to have really bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective?” I think I nod. I can’t really feel my body anymore. “Well, this is one of the good days. This is one of the really good days.”

— Colleen Hoover

491. “Write it all down. Everything you want to remember about him. You’ll be surprised how soon you start to forget everything.”

— Colleen Hoover

492. “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

493. “I’d rather trust the versions of ourselves we don’t remember than trust people who don’t know us at all.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

495. “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

496. “I smile, loving how his words feel against my skin. Inside my heart.”

— Colleen Hoover

497. “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

498. “What do you do when you’re bored? You don’t have internet or TV. Do you just sit around all day and think about how hot I am?”

— Colleen Hoover

499. “She laughs and rushes to me, throwing her arms around my neck. “You’re the best, most understanding boyfriend in the whole wide world.” I hug her back and sigh. “No, I’m not. I’m the most whipped boyfriend in the whole wide world.”

— Colleen Hoover

500. “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