Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Never in all my life and in all my years of living in a world of silence have I wanted to hear something as much as I want to hear her sing right now. I want to hear her so bad it physically hurts.”

— Colleen Hoover

202. “This can’t be happening. This can’t be possible. How is this possible?”

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

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205. “Sarcasm isn’t at all funny when it’s the truth.”

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206. “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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207. “He catches me staring at him when he turns to reach for his other shirt. I do that thing where I quickly glance away and make it completely obvious that I was staring, since I’m now looking at nothing but a blank wall and I know he’s still looking at me and oh, my word, I just want to leave.”

— Colleen Hoover

208. “She left someone she loved so that her daughters would never think that kind of relationship was okay. She wasn’t rescued by another man – a knight in shining armor. She took the initiative to leave my father on her own, knowing she was about to embark on a completely different kind of struggle with added stress as a single mother.”

— Colleen Hoover

209. “Lust is the best of all the deadly sins.”

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210. “I’m sure there’s more substance in the love between two adults than there is between two teenagers. There’s probably more maturity, more respect, more responsibility. But no matter how different the substance of a love might be at different ages in a person’s life, I know that love still has to weight the same.”

— Colleen Hoover

211. “I have no idea why you flashed fake smiles, but cried real tears. – Dean Holder.”

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212. “That could be fate, you know.”

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213. “I don’t want him to hurt like I’m hurting. I don’t want him to miss me like I’ll miss him. I don’t want him to be falling for me like I’ve been falling for him.”

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214. “The line isn’t so black and white anymore. I’m pretty sure gray just became my new favorite color.”

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215. “She’s not a ride-or-die friend, nor is she a ride-or-die sister. That’s what I love the most about her, because I’m not ride-or-die, either. If you do something stupid, I’m going to be the friend who tells you you’re doing something stupid. I’m not going to join you in your stupidity.”

— Colleen Hoover

216. “Layken Cooper, I love you. I’ve loved you since the second I laid eyes on you and I haven’t stopped loving you for a second since.”

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217. “I’m beginning to fear that maybe I’m not so though after all.”

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218. “Then this girl completely shatters the window to my soul and crawls inside.”

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219. “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.”

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220. “We cry survivor to survivor.”

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221. “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.”

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222. “I want you to hear me love you.”

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223. “A band called Sounds of Cedar.”

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224. “Have you ever heard of people referred to as Chronics?” he asks. I shake my head. “I think Verity might have made up the term. After our daughters died, she said we were Chronics. Prone to chronic tragedy. One terrible thing.”

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225. “I am translucent, aquatic. Drifting, aimless. She is an anchor, sinking in my sea. –.”

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226. “He presses his lips against my forehead. “You’re still my favorite person, Lily. Always will be.”

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227. “I hear the crack of his skull before the spattering of blood reaches me.”

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

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229. “Don’t ask about my past,” he says firmly. “And never expect a future.” I absolutely don’t like either of those rules. They both make me want to change my mind about this arrangement and turn and run away, but instead, I’m nodding. I’m nodding because I’ll take what I can get. I’m not Tate when I’m near Miles. I’m liquid, and liquid doesn’t know how to be firm or stand up for itself. Liquid flows. That’s all I want to do with Miles.”

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230. “We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things. I guess that’s true in a way. No one is exclusively bad, nor is anyone exclusively good. Some are just forced to work harder at suppressing the bad.”

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231. “In her darkness, she is silent. In my darkness, she screams.”

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232. “What did I miss while you were sleeping?”

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233. “I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me.”

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234. “You are my wife. I’m supposed to be the one who protects you from the monsters. I’m not supposed to be one.”

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235. “Do you ever wish people were more transparent?” “How so?” He picks at a piece of chipped stucco with his thumb until it breaks loose. He flicks it over the ledge. “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.”

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236. “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

237. “My whole life, I knew exactly what I’d do if a man ever treated me the way my father treated my mother. It was simple. I would leave and it would never happen again. But.”

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238. “I hope you defy the odds of most dreams and actually accomplish yours.”

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239. “Maybe love isn’t something that comes full circle. It just ebbs and flows, in and out, just like the people in our lives. Just because we didn’t end up on the same wave, doesn’t mean we aren’t apart of the same ocean.”

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240. “Some mornings I would wake up and catch him staring at me. He would smile and whisper, “What did I miss while you were sleeping?”

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241. “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. He.”

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

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243. “I have longed to move away but am afraid; Some life, yet unspent, might explode.’” Wow.”

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

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245. “If that were the case, the phrase would be I love you to life. Because that’s exactly what Tate did. She loved me back to life.”

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246. “Sometimes an unexpected wave comes along, sucks you up and refuses to spit you back out.”

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247. “My mother says there are people you meet and get to know, and then there are people you meet and already know. I feel like Owen is the latter. Our personalities seem to complement each other, like we’ve known one another our whole lives. I had no idea until today just how much I need someone like him in my life.”

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248. “Whoever coined the phrase, I love you to death obviously never experienced the kind of love Tate and I share. If that were the case, the phrase would be I love you to life. Because that’s exactly what Tate did. She loved me back to life.”

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249. “That’s... ” He points to Claire’s nursery and tries to speak, but it takes him several tries to get his sentence out. “That’s his sister,” he finally says, blowing out an unsteady breath. “Rachel. You gave him a sister.”

— Colleen Hoover

250. “I’m as nowhere as I can be, Could you add some somewhere to me?”

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