Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “You don’t deserve words, Sky. You deserve actions.”

— Colleen Hoover

352. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

356. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

359. “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

360. “Every November 9th I’ll wait for you, hoping one day you’ll be able to find enough forgiveness to love me again.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

362. “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

363. “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

364. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

367. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

369. “Just keep swimming. But it gets really hard to swim when you fell like you’re anchored in the water.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

373. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

378. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

381. “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

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. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

385. “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

386. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

388. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

391. “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

392. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

394. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

398. “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

399. “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

400. “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