Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “When you associate yourself with another person for so long, it’s difficult becoming your own person again.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

403. “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

404. “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

405. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

407. “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

408. “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

409. “It’s odd when your best friend has an even better best friend.”

— Colleen Hoover

410. “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

411. “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

412. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

417. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

420. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

423. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

427. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

430. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

433. “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

434. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

436. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

437. “I do what I can to avoid people most of the time, and not because I’m afraid they’ll stare at my scars. I avoid them because they don’t stare. The second people notice me, they look away just as fast, because they’re afraid to appear rude or judgmental. Just once it would be nice if someone looked me in the eyes and held my stare. It’s been so long since that’s happened.”

— Colleen Hoover

438. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

439. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

442. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

446. “She’s like a light, unwittingly brightening up the darkest corners of a man’s soul.”

— Colleen Hoover

447. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

448. “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

449. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover