Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “This isn’t one of your fairy tales, Fallon. This is real life, and in the real world you have to bust your ass for the happy ever after!”

— Colleen Hoover

452. “No me voy a casar contigo con la esperanza de que nuestro matrimonio funcione. Cuando seas mia, va a ser una cosa para siempre.”

— Colleen Hoover

453. “I don’t understand how my body can be full of everything bodies are full of – bones and muscles and blood and organs – yet my chest sometimes feels vacant, as if someone could scream into my mouth and it would echo inside of me.”

— Colleen Hoover

454. “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

455. “I do what I can to avoid people most of the time, and not because I’m afraid they’ll stare at my scars. I avoid them because they don’t stare. The second people notice me, they look away just as fast, because they’re afraid to appear rude or judgmental. Just once it would be nice if someone looked me in the eyes and held my stare. It’s been so long since that’s happened.”

— Colleen Hoover

456. “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

457. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

459. “I try not to imagine what it would feel like if I leaned forward and kissed her, but with her this close, I’m really wishing I’d have already somehow read every romance novel ever written, because what the hell makes a kiss book-worthy? I need to know so I can make it happen.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

461. “My heart forgets to wait and get to know a girl before it starts to claw its way out of my chest to get to her.”

— Colleen Hoover

462. “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

463. “She’s like a light, unwittingly brightening up the darkest corners of a man’s soul.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

465. “He inhales a shaky breath while looking down at my mouth. ‘You make it so hard to breathe.”

— Colleen Hoover

466. “I guess that happens when you become a mother, though. Your focus is no longer on yourself. Your life becomes all about this beautiful tiny little human you created.”

— Colleen Hoover

467. “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

468. “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

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. “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

471. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

474. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

476. “Heartbreak builds character.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

478. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

482. “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

483. “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

484. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

486. “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

487. “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

488. “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

489. “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

490. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

492. “Shallow people don’t stare at the ocean as deeply as you do.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

494. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

496. “Finalmente alcanzamos la orilla.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

500. “You can’t hum while holding your nose closed.”

— Colleen Hoover