Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “When you swing upon a memory So dark and far away You get caught upon a mystery That guides you through the day. Although you’re standing weak And don’t know your way around I will always be there For you when you’re down.”

— Colleen Hoover

202. “You’re only human. And as humans, we can’t expect to shoulder all of our pain. Sometimes we have to share it with the people who love us so we don’t come crashing down from the weight of it all.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

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204. “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

205. “When my mom died, I stopped believing in God.”

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206. “Not everything is going to go my way and not everyone gets a happily ever after. Life is real and sometimes it’s ugly and you just have to learn how to cope. I’m going to accept it with a dose of your indifference, and move on.”

— Colleen Hoover

207. “If an attraction is present between two people, those two people can only be one of two things. Involved or not involved. There is no in-between.”

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208. “What you read will taste so bad at times, you’ll want to spit it out, but you’ll swallow these words and they will become part of you, part of your gut, and you will hurt because of them.”

— Colleen Hoover

209. “She’s crying, not because she’s sad, but because she doesn’t know how to express what she’s feeling. She knows there aren’t words good enough for this moment.”

— Colleen Hoover

210. “Because when you love someone, you owe it to them to help them be the best version of themselves that they can be. And as much as it crushes me to admit this, the best version of you doesn’t include me.”

— Colleen Hoover

211. “The points are not the point; the point is poetry.” – Allan Wolf.”

— Colleen Hoover

212. “I’m so sorry, princess.”

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213. “Every time I’m with him, he fills my heart up more and more, and the more it’s filled with pieces of him, the more painful it’ll be when he rips it out of my chest as though it never belonged there in the first place.”

— Colleen Hoover

214. “You don’t put pressure on me to be something I’m incapable of being. You accept me exactly how I am.”

— Colleen Hoover

215. “That’s because none of them are the right choice,” he says. “Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choice feels the least wrong.”

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216. “There’s nothing like the guilt you feel when there’s room in your heart to love evil.”

— Colleen Hoover

217. “I’m definitely an introvert, because people drain me. And now I need silence to refuel.”

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218. “I promise to be your pillar of strength for as long as you need one, I’m sure I will sometimes fail you. My whole purpose in life is to make you happy, and sometimes I feel like I’m unable to do that anymore. Sometimes I give up on myself.”

— Colleen Hoover

219. “I don’t like talking about things that hurt. And lately everything hurts. Which is why I barely talk anymore.”

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220. “There have been times I’ve wondered if I could ever allow myself to trust a guy. For the most part, I hate men because the only example I have is my father. But spending all this time with Atlas is changing me. Not in a huge way, I don’t think. I still distrust most people. But Atlas is changing me enough to believe that maybe he’s an exception to the norm.”

— Colleen Hoover

221. “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

222. “I barely know you, so I’m not about to argue with you over your level of intelligence, because you could very well be as dumb as a rock. But at least you’re pretty.”

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223. “It’s you. My heart... wants you.”

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224. “Well I’ve been locking myself up in my house for some time now Reading and writing and reading and thinking and searching for reasons and missing the seasons The Autumn, the Spring, the Summer, the snow.”

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225. “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

226. “I didn’t want you to fall in love with me because of fate... I wanted you to fall in love with me simply because you couldn’t help yourself.”

— Colleen Hoover

227. “His lips against mine feel like everything. Like living and dying and being reborn, all at the same time.”

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228. “I don’t want to be your first, Fallon. I want to be your last.”

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229. “It’s odd when your best friend has an even better best friend.”

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230. “He’s smiling, and I didn’t realize how much I missed seeing that smile. He should smile all the time. Forever. At me.”

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231. “I think love is a hard word to define,” I say to her. “You can love a lot of things about a person but still not love the whole person.”

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

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233. “Damaged people recognize other damaged people. It’s like a club you don’t want a membership to.”

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234. “If a person truly cares about you, they’ll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

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236. “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.”

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237. “I’m not very good with on-the-spot motivational speech,” I say to her. “Sometimes at night, I’ll rewrite conversations I had during the day, but I’ll change them up to reflect everything I wish I could have said in the moment.”

— Colleen Hoover

238. “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

239. “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

240. “Love. Love is not found. Love finds.”

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241. “And every time you look in the mirror, you don’t have the right to hate what you see. because you survived when a lot of people don’t get that lucky.”

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242. “Trust your gut. Not your heart, because it’s a people pleaser, and not your brain, because it relies too heavily on logic.”

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243. “I press my lips to hers with such delicacy; I want her to feel everything she’s ever deserved to feel at the hands of someone else. She deserves to feel beautiful. She deserves to feel important. She deserves to feel cared for. She deserves to feel respected. She deserves to feel like there’s at least one other person in this world who accepts her for exactly who she is.”

— Colleen Hoover

244. “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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245. “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

246. “I didn’t marry you just for the good years. I didn’t marry you just for the amazing chemistry we have. And I’d be foolish to think our marriage could last an eternity without a few tough moments. So, while this year has been our toughest yet, I know one thing with complete certainty. I love you more this year than any year that came before it.”

— Colleen Hoover

247. “I hold still against her, taking one final look at this amazing, beautiful girl beneath me. “You’re the greatest thing that’s ever happened to my life,” I whisper.”

— Colleen Hoover

248. “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

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

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

— Colleen Hoover