Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “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

402. “Confrontation leads to action. Avoidance leads to inaction.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

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

— Colleen Hoover

405. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

407. “Gratitude is born in the struggle. And we have definitely struggled.”

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

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

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410. “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

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

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412. “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.”

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413. “Love should be between two people, and if it isn’t, I’d rather bow out than take part in the race.”

— Colleen Hoover

414. “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.”

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415. “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!”

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416. “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.”

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

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418. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

420. “I don’t understand how my body can be full of everything bodies are full of – bones and muscles and blood and organs – yet my chest sometimes feels vacant, as if someone could scream into my mouth and it would echo inside of me.”

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421. “So whether or not you can find it in your heart to love me again, I needed to thank you for saving me. And if there is any part of you capable of forgiving me, you know where I’ll be. Tonight, next year, the next, for eternity. The choice is yours.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

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423. “A smile tugs at his lips. ‘Look at that,’ he says quietly. ‘Merit has a heart.”

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424. “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.”

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425. “My emotions are all over the place.”

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426. “I’m not very good with on-the-spot motivational speech,” I say to her. “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.”

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427. “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

428. “I didn’t think you needed rescuing. I just sometimes find it difficult to control my indignation in the presence of absurdity.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

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430. “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

431. “For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else.”

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432. “I guess that happens when you become a mother, though. Your focus is no longer on yourself. Your life becomes all about this beautiful tiny little human you created.”

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433. “I needed for the imaginary version of my world to be darker than my real world. Otherwise, I would have wanted to leave them both.”

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434. “And that’s why I stay at home and write. I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me.”

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

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436. “I’m scared I’ll never feel this again with anyone else,” I whisper. He squeezes my hands. “I’m scared you will.”

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

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438. “Your emotions and reactions are valid, Merit. Don’t let anyone tell you any different. You’re the only one who feels them.”

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439. “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

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

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441. “It’s my fault. I’m the one who walked away last year when you tried to love me.”

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442. “I’m scared I’ll never stop comparing my life without him to how my life was when I was with him.”

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

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444. “Attraction isn’t something that only happens once, with one person. It’s part of what drives humans. Our attraction to each other, to art, to food, to entertainment. Attraction is fun. So when you decide to commit to someone, you aren’t saying, ‘I promise I’ll never be attracted to anyone else.’ You’re saying, ‘I promise to commit to you, despite my potential future attraction to other people.”

— Colleen Hoover

445. “I realized tonight that love is full of so much ugliness and betrayal and maybe I don’t want anything to do with it.”

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446. “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.”

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447. “Ten years from now on August eighth, I’m going to roll over in our bed at midnight and whisper, ‘I told you so’ in your ear.”

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448. “He stared down at me, our mouths thisclose, and I could swear he was already imagining what life with me would be like. You can’t look at someone the way he looked at me – with the entirety of his past – without also imagining the future.”

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449. “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.”

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450. “Damaged people recognize other damaged people. It’s like a club you don’t want a membership to.”

— Colleen Hoover