Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “It’s amazing what the sound of a voice you’ve been longing to hear can do to your heart.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

153. “Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn’t waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never.”

— Colleen Hoover

154. “You’re beautiful. Every inch of you is so beautiful.”

— Colleen Hoover

155. “I thought I was stronger than a word, but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”

— Colleen Hoover

156. “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

157. “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

158. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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160. “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

161. “Just keep swimming. But it gets really hard to swim when you fell like you’re anchored in the water.”

— Colleen Hoover

162. “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

163. “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

164. “So many people dream of living in a house with a white picket fence. Little do they know, there’s no such thing as a perfect family, no matter how white the picket fence is.”

— Colleen Hoover

165. “But we’re also going to have bad days and sad days and days that test our resolve. Those are the days I want you to feel the absolute weight of my love for you.”

— Colleen Hoover

166. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

167. “When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.” – Dylan Thomas.”

— Colleen Hoover

168. “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

169. “Your emotions and reactions are valid, Merit. Don’t let anyone tell you any different. You’re the only one who feels them.”

— Colleen Hoover

170. “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

171. “Not everyone is homeless because they choose to be. They’re homeless because there isn’t enough help to go around. And.”

— Colleen Hoover

172. “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

173. “I hope you choose the road that will make you the happiest. Even if it’s not a choice I’ll love, I will still always love you. Whether I’m a part of your life or not. You deserve happiness more than anyone I know.”

— Colleen Hoover

174. “With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.” –Desiderata by Max Ehrmann.”

— Colleen Hoover

175. “Cheers to strong genes.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

177. “That could be fate, you know.”

— Colleen Hoover

178. “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

179. “But even monsters can’t survive without a heart beating inside their chest. There’s a heart in there somewhere. Maybe no one in her life has ever let her know they’re appreciative that it still beats.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

182. “You can’t pursue the willing, Fallon.”

— Colleen Hoover

183. “I didn’t fall in love with you, Tate. I flew.”

— Colleen Hoover

184. “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

185. “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

186. “There was before you and there was during you. For some reason, I never thought there would be an after you.”

— Colleen Hoover

187. “I’ll keep pretending to swim, when really all I’m doing is floating. Barely keeping my head above water.”

— Colleen Hoover

188. “You make normal love hard. You make me psycho-love you.”

— Colleen Hoover

189. “Preventing your heart from forgiving someone you love is actually a hell of a lot harder than simply forgiving them.”

— Colleen Hoover

190. “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

191. “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

192. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

194. “I think that’s one of the biggest signs a person has matured – knowing how to appreciate things that matter to others, even if they don’t matter very much to you.”

— Colleen Hoover

195. “I can’t win for losing.”

— Colleen Hoover

196. “No one is likable from the inside out.”

— Colleen Hoover

197. “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

198. “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

199. “If silence were a river, your tongue would be the boat.”

— Colleen Hoover

200. “Don’t ask about my past. And never expect a future.”

— Colleen Hoover