Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “I’m confident that I’ll never spend a single second of my life regretting you.”

— Colleen Hoover

252. “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

253. “You looked really sexy with all that chicken grease on your face. Ripping the meat away with your teeth like a savage. God. I just want to marry you.”

— Colleen Hoover

254. “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

255. “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

256. “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

257. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

259. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

261. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

267. “Nostalgia is a funny thing. I.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

269. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

271. “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

272. “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

273. “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

274. “Never forget those who paved the way before you. Never stop trying to better the world for those who will inhabit it after you.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

276. “You’re the most important part of my life, Lily. I want to be what brings you happiness. Not what causes you to hurt.”

— Colleen Hoover

277. “It’s natural, to assume the worst in people, even if that assumption is only for a split second.”

— Colleen Hoover

278. “If only my issues were as trivial as matters of the heart.”

— Colleen Hoover

279. “Right after something tragic happens, you feel like you’ve fallen off a cliff. But after the tragedy starts to sink in, you realize you didn’t fall off a cliff. You’re on an eternal roller coaster that just reached the bottom. Now it’s gonna be up and down and upside down for a long, long time. Maybe even forever.”

— Colleen Hoover

280. “I suppose if a man lived through the ugliest side of love, he might never want to experience it again.”

— Colleen Hoover

281. “It seems to be getting worse at night, nocturnal and intense. I’m sure it’s mostly in my head, but that doesn’t put me at ease, because the things lurking around inside the mind can be just as dangerous as tangible threats.”

— Colleen Hoover

282. “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

283. “I’m sorry for what I did to you in your nightmare. Please forgive me tonight when you dream.” I still have the card. I smile every time I think about it. Some men can’t even apologize for the mistakes they make in reality. But my husband apologizes for the mistakes he makes in my dreams.”

— Colleen Hoover

284. “I think about how sometimes, no matter how convinced you are that your life will turn out a certain way, all that certainty can be washed away with a simple change in tide. I.”

— Colleen Hoover

285. “As much as I want to stay here and allow this to begin between us, there’s something I want from you even more than that. I want you to be with me in the end, and I know that can’t happen if I keep trying to rush our beginning. I know exactly why you were hesitant to let me in last night: you aren’t ready yet. Maybe I’m not, either. You’ve always said you wanted time to yourself, and the last thing I want is to start a relationship with you.”

— Colleen Hoover

286. “Some risks are never worth taking. Especially when those risks failed you in the past.”

— Colleen Hoover

287. “Until then, I will continue to love you more and more with every struggle we face than I loved you when all was perfect.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

289. “I don’t know how he calmed me down without even talking, but he did. Some people just have a calming presence about them and he’s one of those people.”

— Colleen Hoover

290. “I wasn’t heroic. I wasn’t simple. I was difficult. An emotionally challenging puzzle he wasn’t up for solving.”

— Colleen Hoover

291. “You should get some Rodan and Fields. The amp roller works wonders for scarring.”

— Colleen Hoover

292. “No one is exclusively bad, nor is anyone exclusively good. Some are just forced to work harder at suppressing the bad.”

— Colleen Hoover

293. “Our eyes, locked together, speak more naked truths than our mouths ever have.”

— Colleen Hoover

294. “Some families are lucky enough to never experience a single tragedy. But then there are those families that seem to have tragedies waiting on the back burner. What can go wrong, goes wrong. And then gets worse.”

— Colleen Hoover

295. “A writer should never have the audacity to write about themselves unless they’re willing to separate every layer of protection between the author’s soul and their book. The words should come directly from the center of the gut, tearing through flesh and bone as they break free. Ugly and honest and bloody and a little bit terrifying, but completely exposed.”

— Colleen Hoover

296. “Why didn’t you tell me that the foundation you taught me to stand on is made from quicksand?”

— Colleen Hoover

297. “What are some words that come to mind when you think of flowers?”

— Colleen Hoover

298. “Every incident chips away at your limit. Every time you choose to stay, it makes the next time that much harder to leave. Eventually, you lose sight of your limit altogether, because you start to think, ‘I’ve lasted five years now. What’s five more?”

— Colleen Hoover

299. “The problem is, love and happiness are not concordant. One can exist without the other.”

— Colleen Hoover

300. “But sometimes the reason women go back is simply because they’re in love. I love my husband, Ellen. I love so many things about him. I wish cutting my feelings off for the person who hurt me was as easy as I used to think it would be. Preventing your heart from forgiving someone you love is actually a hell of a lot harder than simply forgiving them.”

— Colleen Hoover