Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2023 Update)
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101. “In reality, people are who they are and they’ll never really change.”

— Colleen Hoover

102. “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

103. “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

104. “Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.”

— Colleen Hoover

105. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

107. “Just because we didn’t end up on the same wave, doesn’t mean we aren’t still a part of the same ocean.”

— Colleen Hoover

108. “Naked truths aren’t always pretty.”

— Colleen Hoover

109. “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

110. “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

111. “Sometimes you have to walk away from the fight in order to win it.”

— Colleen Hoover

112. “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

113. “Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.”

— Colleen Hoover

114. “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

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. “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

117. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

119. “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

120. “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

121. “Breckin, this is Holder. Holder is not my boyfriend, but if I catch him trying to break the record for best first kiss with another girl, then he’ll soon be my not breathing non-boyfriend.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

123. “To me, lyrics are harder to write when you have to invent the feelings behind them. That’s when lyrics take a lot of thought, when they aren’t genuine.”

— Colleen Hoover

124. “The more I open up to him, the more I need him. The more I admit to myself that I need him, the most it hurts to know that I still don’t exactly have him.”

— 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. “If words could break souls, my words just broke his in two.”

— Colleen Hoover

127. “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

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. “Tears begin to well in my eyes. I have no idea how or if I even deserve him, but there’s one thing I know for sure. As long as he’s part of it, I’ll never live a life of mediocrity.”

— Colleen Hoover

130. “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

131. “You probably faked passing out the other day, just so you could be carried in my hot, sweaty, manly arms.”

— Colleen Hoover

132. “As his daughter, I loved him. But as a human, I hated him.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

136. “Just because someone hurts you doesn’t mean you can simply stop loving them. It’s not a person’s actions that hurt the most. It’s the love. If there was no love attached to the action, the pain would be a little easier to bear.”

— Colleen Hoover

137. “Now that I have you back, I’m never letting you go. That’s a promise. I’m not letting you go again.”

— Colleen Hoover

138. “You warned me. You said one time with you wouldn’t be enough. You said you were like a drug. But you failed to tell me you were the most addictive kind.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

140. “We’re all full of flaws. Hundreds of them. They’re like tiny holes all over our skin. And like your fortune said, sometimes we shine too much light on our own flaws. But there are some people who try to ignore their own flaws by shining light on other people’s to the point that the other person’s flaws become their only focus. They pick at them, little by little, until they rip wide open and that’s all we become to them. One giant, gaping flaw.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

143. “I used to be fine when I was alone. But now that I have you, I’m lonely when I’m alone.”

— Colleen Hoover

144. “And I realized... just now... that God gives us the ugliness so we don’t take the beautiful things in life for granted.” – Miles.”

— Colleen Hoover

145. “Sometimes even grown women need their mother’s comfort so we can just take a break from having to be strong all the time.”

— Colleen Hoover

146. “But then I met you, and every single day since then, I’ve wondered how someone could be so beautiful if there wasn’t a God. I’ve wondered how someone could make me so incredibly happy if God didn’t exist. And I realized just now... that God gives us the ugliness so we don’t take the beautiful things in life for granted.”

— Colleen Hoover

147. “My mother used to say that houses have a soul, and if that is true, the soul of Verity Crawford’s house is as dark as they come.”

— Colleen Hoover

148. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

150. “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