Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2023 Update)
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351. “Confrontation leads to action. Avoidance leads to inaction.”

— Colleen Hoover

352. “I don’t care if you drink my juice, Tate.”

— Colleen Hoover

353. “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

354. “I wonder if humans are the only living creatures that ever feel hollow inside.”

— Colleen Hoover

355. “Grief is a beast, but it’s also a great excuse.”

— Colleen Hoover

356. “I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.”

— Colleen Hoover

357. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

358. “I have loved you every single second of every day since the moment I laid eyes on you. I love you more now than I did the day I married you.”

— Colleen Hoover

359. “Maybe that’s the root of a lot of family issues. It isn’t actually the issues people are hung up about for so long. It’s that no one has the courage to take the first step in talking about the issues.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

361. “An autobiography encouraging the reader to like the author is not a true autobiography. No one is likable from the inside out. One should only walk away from an autobiography with, at best, an uncomfortable distaste for its author. I will deliver.”

— Colleen Hoover

362. “Sometimes I miss them so much, it hurts me right here. It feels like someone is squeezing my heart with the strength of the entire goddamn world.”

— Colleen Hoover

363. “Goals are achieved through discomfort and hard work.”

— Colleen Hoover

364. “Sometimes in order to save a relationship, you have to sacrifice it first.”

— Colleen Hoover

365. “I’m not going to pretend that I know what you’ve gone through. But after reading those pages, I can assure you that you aren’t the only one who was scarred in that fire. Just because he chose not to show you his scars doesn’t mean they don’t exist.”

— Colleen Hoover

366. “This isn’t one of your fairy tales, Fallon. This is real life, and in the real world you have to bust your ass for the happy ever after! 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.”

— Colleen Hoover

367. “Sky, I’m not kissing you tonight but believe me when I tell you, I’ve never wanted to kiss a girl more. So stop thinking I’m not attracted to you because you have no idea just how much I am. You can hold my hand, you can run your fingers through my hair, you can straddle me while I feed you spaghetti, but you are not getting kissed tonight. And probably not tomorrow, either. I need this. I need to know for sure that you’re feeling every single thing that I’m feeling the moment my lips touch yours. Because I want your first kiss to be the best first kiss in the history of first kisses.”

— Colleen Hoover

368. “If there are two people in this world capable of finding a way to love each other, it’s us.”

— Colleen Hoover

369. “I feel his voice in my stomach. That’s not good. Voices should stop at the ears, but sometimes- not very often at all, actually- a voice will penetrate past my ears and reverberate straight down through my body. He has one of those voices. Deep, confident, and a little bit like butter.”

— Colleen Hoover

370. “I realize now that sometimes two people can lose their hope or their desire or their happiness, but losing all those things doesn’t mean you’ve lost.”

— Colleen Hoover

371. “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

372. “I find myself stuck at a red light on an empty street. Literally and figuratively.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

374. “Shouldn’t there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?”

— Colleen Hoover

375. “When you associate yourself with another person for so long, it’s difficult becoming your own person again.”

— Colleen Hoover

376. “I didn’t want you to fall in love with me because of fate... I wanted you to fall in love with me simply because you couldn’t help yourself.”

— Colleen Hoover

377. “Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It’s the indifference I don’t know how to process.”

— Colleen Hoover

378. “Using you as a standard is completely unfair to the rest of the female population.”

— Colleen Hoover

379. “My heart forgets to wait and get to know a girl before it starts to claw its way out of my chest to get to her.”

— Colleen Hoover

380. “This isn’t one of your fairy tales, Fallon. This is real life, and in the real world you have to bust your ass for the happy ever after!”

— Colleen Hoover

381. “This week proved to me that sometimes the storm doesn’t settle. Sometimes the damage is too catastrophic to be repaired.”

— Colleen Hoover

382. “Love shouldn’t feel like added weight. It should make you feel as light as air. Asa.”

— Colleen Hoover

383. “I laugh, and the tenderness that enters his eyes at the sound of my laughter makes me realize that this is what I want. Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they’ll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.”

— Colleen Hoover

384. “Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.”

— Colleen Hoover

385. “But anyone who sees your scars before they see you doesn’t deserve you.”

— Colleen Hoover

386. “Falling in love may not be a conscious decision, but removing yourself from the situation before it happens is.”

— Colleen Hoover

387. “I try not to imagine what it would feel like if I leaned forward and kissed her, but with her this close, I’m really wishing I’d have already somehow read every romance novel ever written, because what the hell makes a kiss book-worthy? I need to know so I can make it happen.”

— Colleen Hoover

388. “I don’t like that I was never fully able to let go of him, no matter how hard I tried.”

— Colleen Hoover

389. “Your writing matters to me, Lowen.”

— Colleen Hoover

390. “So many people dream of living in a house with a white picket fence. Little do they know, there’s no such thing as a perfect family, no matter how white the picket fence is.”

— Colleen Hoover

391. “No me voy a casar contigo con la esperanza de que nuestro matrimonio funcione. Cuando seas mia, va a ser una cosa para siempre.”

— Colleen Hoover

392. “That’s what love is, Ben. Love is sacrifice.”

— Colleen Hoover

393. “Loving someone doesn’t just include that person, Ben. Loving someone means accepting all the things and people that person loves, too.”

— Colleen Hoover

394. “Please don’t tell me you’re one of those pretentious readers who judge people by the books they like.”

— Colleen Hoover

395. “Maybe I don’t know the first thing about falling in love, because I’ve been telling myself I’m not falling for him yet. That it’s too soon. But it’s not. What’s happening inside my heart right now is way too consequential to deny.”

— Colleen Hoover

396. “He inhales a shaky breath while looking down at my mouth. ‘You make it so hard to breathe.”

— Colleen Hoover

397. “What’s the secret to a perfect marriage?′ The old man leaned forward and looked at me very seriously. ‘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

398. “Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying, I don’t know how to speak to you. I don’t know what you’re thinking. Talk to me. Tell me everything you’ve ever said. All the words. Starting form the very first one.”

— Colleen Hoover

399. “It’s the small things people do for others that define the largest parts of them.”

— Colleen Hoover

400. “I’m not giving up You’re not giving in This battle will turn into a war Before I let it come to an end.”

— Colleen Hoover