Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

403. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

405. “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

406. “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

407. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

409. “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

410. “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

411. “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

412. “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

413. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

418. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

421. “You know, you can tell a lot about a person by their taste in music.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

423. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

425. “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

426. “I’ll love you forever. Even when I can’t.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

428. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

430. “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

431. “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

432. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

434. “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

435. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

439. “I miss you all the time, even when we’re together.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

441. “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

442. “You’re a sacrificer. I don’t even know if that’s a real word, but that’s what you are. You do things you don’t want to do to make life better for the people around you. Like being the designated driver. That doesn’t make you boring. It makes you a hero.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

445. “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

446. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

450. “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