Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

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. “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

154. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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157. “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

158. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

160. “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

161. “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

162. “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

163. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

165. “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

166. “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

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

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168. “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

169. “Cheers to strong genes.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

171. “That could be fate, you know.”

— Colleen Hoover

172. “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

173. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

178. “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

179. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

184. “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

185. “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

186. “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

187. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

190. “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

191. “I can’t win for losing.”

— Colleen Hoover

192. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

195. “It’s funny how you can be so happy with someone and love them so much, it creates an underlying sense of fear in you that you never knew before them. The fear of losing them. The fear of them getting hurt.”

— Colleen Hoover

196. “I love how you aren’t weird and awkward, despite the fact that you’ve been severely cut off from socialization to the point where you make the Amish look trendy.”

— Colleen Hoover

197. “There isn’t a doubt in my mind that we could be perfect for each others life, Sydney. It’s our lives that aren’t perfect for us.”

— Colleen Hoover

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198. “I kiss her on the forehead and make her a promise. “It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”

— Colleen Hoover

199. “Tell me something about yourself that no one else knows. Something I can keep for myself.”

— Colleen Hoover

200. “Hurts to see you everyday Cupid shuts his eyes and shot me twice Smell your perfume on my bed Thoughts of you invade my head Truths are written, never said And if I can’t be yours now I’ll wait here on this ground Till you come, till you take me away Maybe someday Maybe someday.”

— Colleen Hoover