Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “You just have to choose which wrong choice feels the least wrong.”

— Colleen Hoover

102. “I don’t want her to feel nothing when I kiss her. I want her to feel everything.”

— Colleen Hoover

103. “In the future... if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again... fall in love with me.” He presses his lips against my forehead. “You’re still my favorite person, Lily. Always will be.”

— Colleen Hoover

104. “I’ll love you forever. Even when I can’t.” My tears fall harder at his words. “And I’ll love you forever. Even when I shouldn’t.” We.”

— Colleen Hoover

105. “I love it when the night sky makes me feel insignificant”.”

— Colleen Hoover

106. “It’s the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love.”

— Colleen Hoover

107. “We don’t get to choose our parents, and parents don’t get to choose their children. But we do get to choose how hard we’re willing to work in order to make the best of what we’re given.”

— Colleen Hoover

108. “It was hard, being let go by someone who had never really grabbed hold of me completely in the first place. In all the time we’ve spent together, I think we both sort of knew this wasn’t a forever thing. I’m not sure why, because I could easily love him that way.”

— Colleen Hoover

109. “My mind is so exhausted and so tired and my heart hurts so much right now.”

— Colleen Hoover

110. “But sometimes you can’t control where your mind goes. You just have to train it not to go there anymore.”

— Colleen Hoover

111. “I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you. I can’t wait to shine light on all your perfects.”

— Colleen Hoover

112. “There was before you and there was during you. For some reason, I never thought there would be an after you. but there was, and I was in it. I’ll be in it forever.”

— Colleen Hoover

113. “Losing your virginity doesn’t make you more of a woman than a virgin. It just means your hymen is broken. Big whoop.”

— Colleen Hoover

114. “I’ve never loved someone I hate so much, and I’ve never hated someone I love so much.”

— Colleen Hoover

115. “I feel like everyone fakes who they really are, when deep down we’re all equal amounts of screwed up. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others.”

— Colleen Hoover

116. “Everyone deserves another chance. Especially the people who mean the most to you.”

— Colleen Hoover

117. “My eyes trail from his hand to the tattoo written in small script across his forearm. Hopeless.”

— Colleen Hoover

118. “All I want is for you to be happy. That’s all I’ve ever wanted. And I’ll do anything to make that happen for you, even if it means helping you to forget me.”

— Colleen Hoover

119. “I feel like my maybe someday just became my right now.”

— Colleen Hoover

120. “Say it’s wrong, but baby, it feels right.”

— Colleen Hoover

121. “I want her to wait for me. I want her to wait for me so bad. I don’t want to think about her ever allowing anyone bedsides me to love her.”

— Colleen Hoover

122. “She deserves to be kissed by someone who loves her. Someone who spends every waking moment trying to do everything right by her. Someone who would rather die than see her hurt. She doesn’t deserve to be kissed by anyone other than me.”

— Colleen Hoover

123. “She doesn’t speak, but she doesn’t have to. I know in these moments, when it’s just her and me and nothing else, that she truly, soul-deep loves me.”

— Colleen Hoover

124. “It’s not just lies they’re referring to. It’s life. You can’t run to another town, another place, another state. Whatever it is you’re running from-it goes with you. It stays with you until you find out how to confront it.”

— Colleen Hoover

125. “She dips her spoon into her ice cream, then puts the spoon back in her mouth. I can’t stop staring at that spoon. I think I love that spoon.”

— Colleen Hoover

126. “God, if just holding hands with him feels this intense, I can’t imagine what everything else with him would feel like.”

— Colleen Hoover

127. “A guy can tell a girl he’s in love with her until he’s blue in the face. Words don’t mean anything to a woman when her head’s full of doubt. You have to show her.”

— Colleen Hoover

128. “I kiss her every way I can possibly kiss her, because I plan on loving her every way I can possibly love her. Every single time we refused to cave in to our feelings in the past makes this kiss completely worth the sacrifices.”

— Colleen Hoover

129. “In reality, people are who they are and they’ll never really change.”

— Colleen Hoover

130. “But everything wrong with her is everything that draws me in and makes her perfect. She’s flat-out rude to me and I love it. She’s stubborn and I love it.”

— Colleen Hoover

131. “Me: Why don’t you ever practice on your balcony like you used to? This question gets me immediate eye contact from him, but it doesn’t last. His eyes flicker across my face, down my body, and finally back to his phone. Ridge: Why would I? You’re not out there anymore.”

— Colleen Hoover

132. “Time has completely stopped, and all I’m thinking about while we kiss is how this is what saves people. Moments like these with people like her are what make all the sufferings worth it.”

— Colleen Hoover

133. “I know we shouldn’t be putting ourselves into a situation we’re only going to regret once it’s over.”

— Colleen Hoover

134. “I’ve believed in you since the moment I met you. I believe in myself now that I’ve finally left you.”

— Colleen Hoover

135. “Fifteen seconds. That’s all it takes to completely change everything about a person. Fifteen.”

— Colleen Hoover

136. “When my life is good enough for you to be a part of it, I’ll come find you. But I don’t want you to wait around for me, because that might never happen.” I.”

— Colleen Hoover

137. “If you don’t show up today, I’ll be there next year. And the next. Every November 9th I’ll wait for you, hoping one day you’ll be able to find enough forgiveness to love me again. But if that doesn’t happen and you never show, I’ll still be grateful to you until the day that I die. You saved me the day we met.”

— Colleen Hoover

138. “Cycles exist because they are excruciating to break. It takes an astronomical amount of pain and courage to disrupt a familiar pattern. Sometimes it seems easier to just keep running in the same familiar circles, rather than facing the fear of jumping and possibly not landing on your feet. My mother went through it. I went through it. I’ll be damned if I allow my daughter to go through it. I kiss her on the forehead and make her a promise. “It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”

— Colleen Hoover

139. “I wish I could explain how I feel, but nothing can explain this moment. Not a vase of stars. Not a book. Not a song. Not even a poem. Nothing can explain the moment when the woman you would give your life for sees her daughter for the very first time.”

— Colleen Hoover

140. “And when you love someone, seeing them sad also makes you sad.”

— Colleen Hoover

141. “I promise to love you more when you hate me than when you love me.”

— Colleen Hoover

142. “The world was her manuscript. No surface was safe.”

— Colleen Hoover

143. “My favorite conversations are the ones with no real answers.”

— Colleen Hoover

144. “In the past and for forever, you are my favorite person. Always have been. Always will be. I love you. Everything that you are.”

— Colleen Hoover

145. “Sometimes we don’t get second chances, Owen. Sometimes things just end.” He winces. “We didn’t even get a first chance.”

— Colleen Hoover

146. “I can’t explain to you how perfect this girl is. And when I say perfect, I mean imperfect, because there’s just too much wrong with her. But everything wrong with her is everything that draws me in and makes her perfect.”

— Colleen Hoover

147. “That’s what fifteen minutes can do to a person. It can destroy them. It can save them.”

— Colleen Hoover

148. “Our eyes, locked together, speak more naked truths than our mouths ever have.”

— Colleen Hoover

149. “Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness.”

— Colleen Hoover

150. “It’s amazing what the sound of a voice you’ve been longing to hear can do to your heart.”

— Colleen Hoover