Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

303. “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

304. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

306. “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

307. “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

308. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

310. “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

311. “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

312. “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

313. “I hope they laugh at you, Fallon. If people are laughing at you, it means you’re putting yourself out there to be laughed at. Not enough people have the courage to even take that step.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

315. “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

316. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

319. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

321. “When you meet someone who is good for you, they won’t fill you with insecurities by focusing on your flaws. They’ll fill you with inspiration, because they’ll focus on all the best parts of you.”

— Colleen Hoover

322. “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

323. “Live. If you mix the letters up in the words like and love, you get live. You can use that word.” He laughs again, but this time it’s a laugh of relief. He wraps his arms around me and he kisses me with nothing but a hell of a lot of relief. “I live you, Sky,” he says agains my lips. “I live you so much.”

— Colleen Hoover

324. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

327. “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

328. “As an author, I want to write what I’m inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel like the books will ultimately be better if my heart is fully into what I’m writing.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

330. “People spend so much time wondering why the women don’t leave. Where are all the people who wonder why the men are even abusive? Isn’t that where the only blame should be placed?”

— Colleen Hoover

331. “One of the things I always try to remind myself is that everyone has scars,” she says. “A lot of them even worse than mine. The only difference is that mine are visible and most people’s aren’t.”

— Colleen Hoover

332. “She deserves better. So much better. She deserves me. If only she knew that.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

334. “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

335. “The heart of a man is no heart at all If his heart isn’t loved by a woman. The heart of a woman is no heart at all If her heart isn’t loving a man. But the heart of a man and a woman in love Can be worse than not having a heart Because at least if you have no heart at all It can’t die when it breaks apart.”

— Colleen Hoover

336. “I haven’t been able to get you out of my head. I don’t know why. At work, at home. All I can think about is how crazy it feels when I’m near you, and I need you to make it stop, Lily.” He stops pacing and faces me. “Please make it stop. Just once – that’s all it’ll take. I swear.”

— Colleen Hoover

337. “I recently concluded that there’s no other explanation for how you and I could end up on the same planet, in the same species, in the same century, in the same country, in the same state, in the same town, in the same hallway, in front of the same door for the same reason at the exact same time. If God didn’t believe in me, then I’d have to believe you were just a coincidence. And you being a coincidence in my life is a lot harder for me to fathom than the mere existence of a higher power.”

— Colleen Hoover

338. “It means people who make mistakes usually learn from them. That doesn’t make them hypocrites. It makes them experienced.”

— Colleen Hoover

339. “You’ll cry tonight. In bed. That’s when it’ll hurt the most. When you’re alone.”

— Colleen Hoover

340. “If we’re going to kiss, it has to be book-worthy.”

— Colleen Hoover

341. “Ryle is my unexpected tidal wave, and right now I’m skimming the beautiful surface.”

— Colleen Hoover

342. “Every November 9th I’ll wait for you, hoping one day you’ll be able to find enough forgiveness to love me again.”

— Colleen Hoover

343. “I need a distraction.”

— Colleen Hoover

344. “When you’re willing to give up the things that mean the most to you just to see someone else happy, that’s real love.”

— Colleen Hoover

345. “If I had superpower, it would be infiltration. I would infiltrate his mind so I could see every single one of his thoughts.”

— Colleen Hoover

346. “Live. If you mix the letters up in the words like and love, you get live.”

— Colleen Hoover

347. “I’m staring, emotionless, into a pair of unfamiliar, dark eyes. I feel as though I’m staring at two eyes I’ve never seen before, despite the fact that I’ve more than likely looked at these eyes on a daily basis since I was old enough to reach a mirror.”

— Colleen Hoover

348. “I knew what he was saying. That he was leaving for the military and he didn’t want me to hold on to him while he was gone. He wasn’t really breaking up with me because we weren’t ever really together. We’d just been two people who helped each other when we needed it and got our hearts fused together along the way. It.”

— Colleen Hoover

349. “That’s how it is with us. You’re solid, I’m liquid. You part the waters, I’m your wake.”

— Colleen Hoover

350. “We shouldn’t waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never.”

— Colleen Hoover