Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “We shouldn’t waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never.”

— Colleen Hoover

352. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

353. “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

354. “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

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

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

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358. “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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359. “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

360. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

361. “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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362. “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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363. “If it were possible to hear a smile, hers would be a love song.”

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364. “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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365. “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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366. “I realize there can’t be a maybe someday between us. There will never be a maybe someday. He loves her, and she obviously loves him, and I can’t blame them, because whatever they have is beautiful.”

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

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

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

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

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

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372. “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

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

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

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375. “I want you to be my first and last.”

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376. “If that boy can’t see what a good thing he could have with you, then he ain’t worth your time.”

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377. “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

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

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379. “He smiles at me. It’s a shy smile and it’s so cute, it makes me smile.”

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

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

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

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383. “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

384. “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

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

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

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

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388. “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.”

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

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

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

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392. “I know that’s weird, but that’s what you love about me. You love how much I love you. Because yes. I love you way too much. More than anyone deserves to be loved. But I can’t help it. You make normal love hard. You make me psycho-love you.”

— Colleen Hoover

393. “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

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

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

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

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397. “Her eyes are like two open books and I suddenly want to devour every page.”

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398. “Genuine. If I had to describe him in one word, that would be it.”

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399. “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

400. “I thought Mormon’s weren’t allowed to have caffeine.” Breckin shrugs. “I decided to break that rule the morning I woke up gay.”

— Colleen Hoover