Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “There’s nothing like the guilt you feel when there’s room in your heart to love evil.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

203. “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

204. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

206. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

207. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

208. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

213. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

214. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

216. “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

217. “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

218. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

221. “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

222. “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

223. “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

224. “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

225. “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

226. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

230. “That could be fate, you know.”

— Colleen Hoover

231. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

234. “We cry survivor to survivor.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

236. “A band called Sounds of Cedar.”

— Colleen Hoover

237. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

241. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

242. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

246. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

248. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

249. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover