Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2023 Update)
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201. “I hear the crack of his skull before the spattering of blood reaches me.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

204. “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

205. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

209. “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

210. “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

211. “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

212. “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

213. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

215. “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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216. “Cycles exist because they are excruciating to break. It takes an astronomical amount of pain and courage to disrupt a familiar pattern. Sometimes it seems easier to just keep running in the same familiar circles, rather than facing the fear of jumping and possibly not landing on your feet. My mother went through it. I went through it. I’ll be damned if I allow my daughter to go through it. I kiss her on the forehead and make her a promise. “It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

218. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

221. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

222. “I’m confident that I’ll never spend a single second of my life regretting you.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

224. “She’s not the kind of girl you choose your battles for. She’s the kind of girl you fight to the death for.”

— Colleen Hoover

225. “My favorite conversations are the ones with no real answers.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

227. “He pulls back to look down at me and when he sees my tears, he brings his hands up to my cheeks. “In the future... if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again... fall in love with me.”

— Colleen Hoover

228. “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

229. “Maybe love isn’t something that comes full circle. It just ebbs and flows, in and out, just like the people in our lives.”

— Colleen Hoover

230. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

231. “You can’t leave yet. I’m not finished falling in love with you.”

— Colleen Hoover

232. “Because it’s easy to fall in love, Ben. The hard part comes when you want out.” Makes sense. If you’re the Tin Man. “You think you can actually control whether or not you fall in love with someone?”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

234. “No matter how much you love someone – the capacity of that love is meaningless if it outweighs your capacity to forgive.”

— Colleen Hoover

235. “Now I know exactly what Ben meant when he said he finds it difficult to control his indignation in the presence of absurdity. He thinks my insecurities are absurd, and he took it upon himself to prove that to me.”

— Colleen Hoover

236. “Whoever coined the phrase, I love you to death obviously never experienced the kind of love Tate and I share.”

— Colleen Hoover

237. “But sometimes you can’t control where your mind goes. You just have to train it not to go there anymore.”

— Colleen Hoover

238. “You only miss the idea of him. You weren’t happy with him even before you found out he was cheating. You were only with him because it was comfortable. You miss the relationship, but you don’t miss Hunter.”

— Colleen Hoover

239. “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

240. “Goals are achieved through discomfort and hard work. They aren’t achieved when you hide out in a place where you’re nice and cozy.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

242. “Lily no existe tal cosa como las malas personas. Todos somos personas que a veces hacen cosas malas.”

— Colleen Hoover

243. “It’s easy to confuse feelings and emotions for something they aren’t, especially when eye contact is involved. I.”

— Colleen Hoover

244. “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

245. “Dead fathers and exasperating roommates and questionable eulogies don’t feel so awful when the night sky is clear enough to literally feel the grandeur of the universe. I love it when the night sky makes me feel insignificant.”

— Colleen Hoover

246. “Youth and beauty fade. Human decency doesn’t.”

— Colleen Hoover

247. “It’s easy when we’re on the outside to believe that we would walk away without a second thought if a person mistreated us. It’s easy to say we couldn’t continue to love someone who mistreats us when we aren’t the ones feeling the love of that person. When you experience it firsthand, it isn’t so easy to hate the person who mistreats you when most of the time they’re your godsend. Ryle.”

— Colleen Hoover

248. “I would never let anyone else borrow my heart if I know there’s a chance in hell you might want it back.”

— Colleen Hoover

249. “Our marriage hasn’t been perfect. No marriage is perfect. There were times when she gave up on us. There were even more times when I gave up on us. The secret to our longevity is that we never gave up at the same time.”

— Colleen Hoover

250. “Do you have any idea how many doors I’ve knocked on to find you?”

— Colleen Hoover