Top 140 Helen Hoang Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “People called it a disorder, but it didn’t feel like one. To her, it was simply the way she was.”

— Helen Hoang

52. “She didn’t need to sleep with him. Her anger would keep her company.”

— Helen Hoang

53. “A poem can be as short as two lines, sometimes even one, but there’s an entire idea contained there, an entire story.”

— Helen Hoang

54. “I’m thinking I need to switch apps or narrow my search criteria when I come across Anna. Her picture is so sweet that I almost skip her on principle, but I keep looking because I can’t help myself.”

— Helen Hoang

55. “Her lips curved like she was telling him a secret. About math things.”

— Helen Hoang

56. “All I can do is go forward, and to do that, I must stop chasing perfection. It doesn’t exist. I can never please everyone. It’s hard enough just pleasing myself. Instead, I must focus on giving what I have, not what people want, because that is all I can give.”

— Helen Hoang

57. “They’d tell me to quit indulging myself and snap out of it. Tough love is our way. Being tough on myself isn’t working now, though. I can’t try harder than I already am.”

— Helen Hoang

58. “When she died, demons were going to torment her for eternity instead of letting her reincarnate. Or worse, they’d let her reincarnate, but she’d be a catfish who lived under a river outhouse. It was only fair. That was what she got for wishing food poisoning on people.”

— Helen Hoang

59. “Anna’s pain is real. I can’t brush it aside just because I don’t understand it. I can’t place judgment on it. Pain is pain.”

— Helen Hoang

60. “For that’s the only place where true perfection exists – the blank page. Nothing I actually do can compete with the boundless potential of what I could do.”

— Helen Hoang

61. “I don’t like lying. I do it all the time, though. The harmless little lies that make people feel nice. They’re essential for getting along in society.”

— Helen Hoang

62. “Everything about him pleased her. Not just his looks, but his patience and his kindness. He was good. He was an obsession waiting to happen.”

— Helen Hoang

63. “Show me how to make it good for you, too,” he said as he looked at her directly, no trace of shame on his face. “Because I need you to feel the way I do right now.”

— Helen Hoang

64. “It’s like pricking yourself with a needle. Do it once, and you’re okay. You can ignore that it even happened. Prick yourself repeatedly without giving yourself time to heal, and soon you’re injured and bleeding.”

— Helen Hoang

65. “She ached so badly to be held it felt like a sickness had invaded her muscles and bones.”

— Helen Hoang

66. “The harmless little lies that make people feel nice. They’re essential for getting along in society.”

— Helen Hoang

67. “So she could speak English. She just chose not to. With him.”

— Helen Hoang

68. “My heart works in a different way, but it’s yours. You’re my one.”

— Helen Hoang

69. “Smiles are real when they reach your eyes.”

— Helen Hoang

70. “He was ignoring everyone, including her, at this expensive wedding, so he could read a novel about alien demon things.”

— Helen Hoang

71. “I don’t like it when people have to act differently for me.”

— Helen Hoang

72. “Where did you go when you had nowhere?”

— Helen Hoang

73. “This goes two ways, Stella. You like the feel of me. I like the feel of you.”

— Helen Hoang

74. “A slow me is much better than a sick me.”

— Helen Hoang

75. “He got out of bed and pulled on his jeans, fully aware of her audience’s appreciative gaze. He felt a little ridiculous about it, but maybe he did it slowly. Maybe he flexed his abs and biceps as he zipped his fly and buttoned his pants. Because really, putting on pants required a lot of muscle.”

— Helen Hoang

76. “Perhaps this is what I’ve always needed without really knowing it, to love myself without shame and without reservation.”

— Helen Hoang

77. “When he finally found the strength to pull away, he settled her on her feet and went to toss the condom in the toilet.”

— Helen Hoang

78. “This was what happened when you kept secrets. People drew their own conclusions.”

— Helen Hoang

79. “No one should need a diagnosis in order to be compassionate to themself.”

— Helen Hoang

80. “Don’t forget to apologize. First with words. Then with your tongue.”

— Helen Hoang

81. “Why couldn’t all men be just like her father? He thought she was beautiful and brilliant, and his smell didn’t make her sick.”

— Helen Hoang

82. “I don’t life that Priscilla blaming herself when she did all that she could, all that anyone could, really. But I guess that’s how it must be when someone’s standards are so impossibly high and their capacity for empathy so limited. They are cruel to others, and cruelest to themselves.”

— Helen Hoang

83. “There’s no need for sorry. If you love her, we’ll learn to love her, too.”

— Helen Hoang

84. “All the bars of his cage were gone, but he was still sitting in his old place, afraid to move.”

— Helen Hoang

85. “Khai frowns, but he nods, accepting what I’ve said. He’s never pushy or nosy. He’s the best listener.”

— Helen Hoang

86. “Her heart jumped with giddiness, and she ran to him. He closed his arms around her immediately.”

— Helen Hoang

87. “For whatever reason, none of the women in this house cooked. He’d had to learn in order to survive.”

— Helen Hoang

88. “He’d been made to love her.”

— Helen Hoang

89. “Her breath caught before she murmured, “Miss you, too.” The line had already disconnected, however, and she said the words to herself.”

— Helen Hoang

90. “My gift to you. For all the birthdays when I didn’t know you.”

— Helen Hoang

91. “Last night had been a fiasco filled with panic attacks and fear sweat...”

— Helen Hoang

92. “That’s when I realize that I trust him. Over the past weeks, he’s proven time and again that he respects me, that he won’t hurt me. I can tell him things. Not because he doesn’t matter. But because he is kind.”

— Helen Hoang

93. “In a split second, she redefined perfection for him. His standards aligned to her exact proportions and measurements. No one else would ever live up to her.”

— Helen Hoang

94. “What would he think if she told him how difficult it was for her to do things like dancing and drinking? Going out was supposed to be fun. For her, it was work – hard work.”

— Helen Hoang

95. “That’s what I learned from them – it’s not safe to be different.”

— Helen Hoang

96. “Sometimes, he worried she’d fall off. Other times, he hoped she’d fall off. So he’d have an excuse to tell her to come closer.”

— Helen Hoang

97. “I can’t brush it aside just because I don’t understand it. I can’t place judgement on it. Pain is pain. I know what it’s like to hurt and for others not to understand.”

— Helen Hoang

98. “He wondered what made a person a person. Was it something mystical like a soul? Something scientific like neural connections in the brain? Or something simpler like the ability to make someone miss you ten years after you’d died?”

— Helen Hoang

99. “He was an obsession waiting to happen.”

— Helen Hoang

100. “I’m terrified that if I slip, if I fail, everyone will stop loving me, and where will I be then?”

— Helen Hoang