Top 500 Colleen Hoover Quotes (2023 Update)
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401. “Love should be between two people, and if it isn’t, I’d rather bow out than take part in the race.”

— Colleen Hoover

402. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

404. “I nod and hope he backs the hell away from me, because I’m about to have an asthma attack and I don’t even have asthma.”

— Colleen Hoover

405. “Why the hell does luck exist if I’m not supposed to push it?” I.”

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406. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

408. “He looks at me, completely defeated. ‘I love you’, he says quietly, shaking his head. ‘I always have. No matter how much you wish I didn’t’.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

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

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

— Colleen Hoover

412. “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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413. “It’s beautiful. He’s beautiful. And somehow, with the way he’s looking down at me, I even believe I’m beautiful.”

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414. “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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415. “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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416. “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

417. “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

418. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

420. “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

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

— Colleen Hoover

422. “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

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

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424. “Remember a few months ago when I told you sometimes we have to have really bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective?” I think I nod. I can’t really feel my body anymore. “Well, this is one of the good days. This is one of the really good days.”

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425. “This can’t be happening. This can’t be possible. How is this possible?”

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426. “I thought Mormon’s weren’t allowed to have caffeine.” Breckin shrugs. “I decided to break that rule the morning I woke up gay.”

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427. “I press my lips to hers with such delicacy; I want her to feel everything she’s ever deserved to feel at the hands of someone else. She deserves to feel beautiful. She deserves to feel important. She deserves to feel cared for. She deserves to feel respected. She deserves to feel like there’s at least one other person in this world who accepts her for exactly who she is.”

— Colleen Hoover

428. “You make normal love hard. You make me psycho-love you.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

— Colleen Hoover

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

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431. “Write it all down. Everything you want to remember about him. You’ll be surprised how soon you start to forget everything.”

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432. “I’d rather trust the versions of ourselves we don’t remember than trust people who don’t know us at all.”

— Colleen Hoover

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

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

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435. “Her lips are in close proximity to mine, so of course I have to kiss them.”

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436. “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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437. “For six years we lived in this perfect world where adults are always right and bad things don’t happen don’t happen to good people. Then, in the span of a minute, you were taken and everything we knew turned out to be this false image of life that our parents had built for us. We realized that day that even adults do horrible things.”

— Colleen Hoover

438. “Finalmente alcanzamos la orilla.”

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439. “Love is real and sometimes it’s ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.”

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440. “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

441. “I’m the awkward writer who posts a picture of my book and says, “It’s an okay book. There are words in it. Read it if you want.”

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442. “I don’t even want to be with anyone if there’s even a remote possibility that there’s a third party at play. Love should be between two people, and if it isn’t, I’d rather bow out than take part in the race.”

— Colleen Hoover

443. “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

444. “She laughs and rushes to me, throwing her arms around my neck. “You’re the best, most understanding boyfriend in the whole wide world.” I hug her back and sigh. “No, I’m not. I’m the most whipped boyfriend in the whole wide world.”

— Colleen Hoover

445. “I smile, loving how his words feel against my skin. Inside my heart.”

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446. “People can’t always control who their circumstances turn them into.”

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447. “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.”

— Colleen Hoover

448. “I hold still against her, taking one final look at this amazing, beautiful girl beneath me. “You’re the greatest thing that’s ever happened to my life,” I whisper.”

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449. “How can a fifteen-year old girl defend her love when that love is dismissed by everyone? It’s impossible to defend yourself against inexperience and age. And maybe they’re right. Maybe we don’t know love like an adult knows love, but we sure as hell feel it.”

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450. “My mother was put through the most maddening, painful, tragic event of her life. Yet, as always, she put me first. Before her anger, her grief, the betrayal. She did everything she could to shield me from the truth, even if that meant unfairly taking the blame.”

— Colleen Hoover