Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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

352. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

355. “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

356. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

361. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

363. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

364. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

366. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

368. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

374. “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

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

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376. “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

377. “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

378. “Desire is easy to fight. Especially when the only weapon desire possesses is attraction. It’s not so easy when you’re trying to win a war against the heart.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

380. “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

381. “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

382. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

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385. “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

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

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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

390. “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

391. “I think that’s the difference in the marriages that survive and the marriages that don’t. Some people think the focus in a marriage should be put on all the perfect days. They love as much and as hard as they can when everything is going right. But if a person gives all of themselves in the good times, hoping the bad times never come, there may not be enough resources or energy left to withstand those Category 5 moments.”

— Colleen Hoover

392. “Fallon, I don’t care about the book. I don’t even want to finish it. All I care about is you. Being with you every day. Seeing you every day. I’m not finished falling in love with you yet. But if you don’t want to finish falling in love with me, then you need to tell me right now.”

— Colleen Hoover

393. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

395. “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

396. “You get really angry when you’re hungry. You get hangry. It’s like you’re not even the same person. Can we keep granola bars in your purse or something? It’s just that I worry about my balls.”

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

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398. “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

399. “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

400. “I can spend my time focusing on the perfect version of the life I’ll never have or I can spend my time enjoying the life I do have.”

— Colleen Hoover