Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2023 Update)
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301. “She deserves better. So much better. She deserves me. If only she knew that.”

— Colleen Hoover

302. “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

303. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

304. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

305. “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

306. “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

307. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

309. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

310. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

312. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

315. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

317. “That’s what love is, Ben. Love is sacrifice. I got this tattoo the day I felt that kind of love for your father. And I chose it because if I had to describe love that day, I would say it felt like my two favourite things, amplified and thrown together. Like my favourite poetic line mixed into the lyrics of my favourite song. You’ll know, Ben. 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

318. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

319. “When my mom died, I stopped believing in God.”

— Colleen Hoover

320. “I’m so sorry, princess.”

— Colleen Hoover

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.”

— Colleen Hoover

322. “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

323. “When you left last year, you left with my soul in your hands and my heart in your teeth.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

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326. “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

327. “Tonight, everyone’s focus is on my art, but my focus is on her. She’s the most interesting piece in this entire room.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

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329. “As much as I try to forget where it all started to go wrong, I was cursed with this mind that never forgets a single thing.”

— Colleen Hoover

330. “My sweet is that me and Kel are finally brothers. My suck is that I now know what Will and Layken did during their honeymoon.”

— Colleen Hoover

331. “In all the time we’ve spent together, I think we both sort of knew this wasn’t a forever thing. I’m not sure why, because I could easily love him that way.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

333. “We’re just two completely confused souls, scared of a much unwanted yet crucial goodbye.”

— Colleen Hoover

334. “Our maybe someday just became our absolutely forever.”

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335. “That’s because none of them are the right choice,” he says. “Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choice feels the least wrong.”

— Colleen Hoover

336. “I’ve missed you every single day we weren’t together since the moment I met you.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

338. “Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it’s ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

340. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

341. “Tell me something about yourself that no one else knows. Something I can keep for myself.”

— Colleen Hoover

342. “Loving someone means accepting all the things and people that person loves, too.”

— Colleen Hoover

343. “You don’t exist, God. If you do, you should be ashamed.”

— Colleen Hoover

344. “Your mother left me because I slept with her best friend. My personality had nothing to do with it.”

— Colleen Hoover

345. “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. So I just want you to know that tonight when I write this conversation down on paper, I’ll say something really heroic and it’ll make you feel really good about your life.”

— Colleen Hoover

346. “I love you, Holder!” I yell after him. “Best friends forever!” He keeps walking forward, but lifts his hand in the air and flips me off. It’s almost as cool as a fist bump.”

— Colleen Hoover

347. “If she’s not careful, I might just fall in love with her. Tonight.”

— Colleen Hoover

348. “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

349. “I like you enough to kiss you. Believe me. But I just wish you could like yourself as much as I like you.”

— Colleen Hoover

350. “A happy Atlas was near mind-blowing. It made me want to uncover every single thing about this world that he likes and give it all to him.”

— Colleen Hoover