Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “It’s the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love.”

— Colleen Hoover

102. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

103. “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

104. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

109. “All humans make mistakes. What determines our character is whether we turn those mistakes into excuses or lessons.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

112. “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

113. “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

114. “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

115. “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

116. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

118. “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

119. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

121. “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

122. “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

123. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

127. “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

128. “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

129. “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

130. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

135. “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

136. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

139. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

141. “But I’m not falling in love with her piece by piece anymore. I’m in love with the whole girl. Every single piece of her.”

— Colleen Hoover

142. “I’ve been let down by this life one too many times and quite frankly, I’m tired of losing hope.”

— Colleen Hoover

143. “I just wanna make sure that you don’t miss out on the things in life that are happening when you’re not thinking. Because believe me, those are the best things in life.”

— Colleen Hoover

144. “I want to be your soulmate, even if I don’t believe in them.”

— Colleen Hoover

145. “I don’t care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.”

— Colleen Hoover

146. “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

147. “I prefer honesty over loyalty any day, because with honesty comes loyalty.”

— Colleen Hoover

148. “My favorite part about you though is when I catch you staring at me. I love that you don’t look away and you stare unapologetically, like you aren’t ashamed that you can’t stop watching me. It’s all you want to do because you think I’m the most amazing thing you’ve ever laid eyes on. I love how much you love me.”

— Colleen Hoover

149. “How ever, I’ve learned that the heart can’t be told when and who and how it should love. The heart does whatever the hell it wants to do. The only thing we can control is whether we give our lives and our minds the chance to catch up to our hearts.”

— Colleen Hoover

150. “Sometimes I miss them so much, it hurts me right here. It feels like someone is squeezing my heart with the strength of the entire goddamn world.”

— Colleen Hoover