Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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.”

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303. “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?”

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

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

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306. “I thought I was stronger than a word, but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”

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307. “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.”

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

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309. “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.”

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

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311. “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.”

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312. “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.”

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

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314. “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.”

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315. “I need a distraction.”

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

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317. “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.”

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

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319. “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.”

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320. “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.”

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321. “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.”

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322. “Wow,” he says, shaking his head. “You’re kind of my hero. You just roasted a dead guy.”

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323. “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.”

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324. “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.”

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

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326. “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.”

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327. “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.”

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328. “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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329. “Tuqburni is used to describe the all-encompassing feeling of not being able to live without someone. Which is why the literal translation is, ‘You bury me.”

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330. “And if I can’t be yours now I’ll wait here on this ground till you come, till you take me away. Maybe someday.”

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331. “When I published my first novel, Slammed, I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands, The Avett Brothers. The overwhelmingly positive response from readers to those lyrics really surprised me.”

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332. “A body is simply a package for the true gifts inside.”

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333. “I laugh, relieved that she’s... that she simply exists. And that we were lucky enough to exist in the same lifetime, in the same area of the world, in the same state.”

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334. “She smiles when she sees me. That’s it. All she did just now was smile, but all of a sudden, my chest is on fire, and it feels as if a wave of heat just rolled down the entire length of my body. I recognize this feeling, and it’s not good.”

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335. “When you find love, you take it. You grab it with both hands and you do everything in your power not to let it go. You can’t just walk away from it and expect it to linger until you’re ready for it.”

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336. “But for the first time, I don’t feel like the English language has developed enough letters in the alphabet to adequately express the words I want to say to you.”

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337. “There are three questions every woman should be able to answer yes to before they commit to a man. If you answer no to any of this question, run like hell.”

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338. “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.”

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339. “And people like my father are the problem. Instead of helping others, people use the worst-case scenarios to excuse their own selfishness and greed.”

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340. “You don’t deserve words, Sky. You deserve actions.”

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

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

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343. “I wonder if it’s possible for people to fall in love with a person one characteristic at a time, or if you fall for the entire person at once.”

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344. “The journey from first breath to death has nothing to do with miracles, how much you pray, coincidences, or divine intervention. Sometimes.”

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345. “I’m so sorry, princess.”

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

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347. “Mom: A doctor, Lily? AND your own business? I want to be you when I grow up.”

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348. “If it were possible to hear a smile, hers would be a love song.”

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349. “I stretch truths where I see fit. I’m a writer.”

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350. “I need you to to know that it was always you who had my heart.”

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