Top 140 Helen Hoang Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Math is the single most elegant thing in the universe, and economics is what drives the human world. If you want to understand people in a sophisticated manner, I believe economics is the way.”

— Helen Hoang

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

— Helen Hoang

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

— Helen Hoang

54. “His sisters had posters of Henney plastered all over their bedroom walls, had even established a man-beauty scale of one to Henney.”

— Helen Hoang

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

— Helen Hoang

56. “I don’t care what these hands do as long as they’re yours.”

— Helen Hoang

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

— Helen Hoang

58. “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

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

— Helen Hoang

60. “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

61. “She wasn’t a photoshopped image on a magazine. She was a real person, flawed. Oddly, that made her more beautiful.”

— Helen Hoang

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

— Helen Hoang

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

— Helen Hoang

64. “Women buy underwear for the men they love. It’s economics. Data supports this claim.”

— Helen Hoang

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

— Helen Hoang

66. “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

67. “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

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

— Helen Hoang

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

— Helen Hoang

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

— Helen Hoang

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

— Helen Hoang

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

— Helen Hoang

73. “No one seemed to understand it wasn’t good-bye unless Andy said it back.”

— Helen Hoang

74. “He’d been made to love her.”

— Helen Hoang

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

— Helen Hoang

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

— Helen Hoang

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

— Helen Hoang

78. “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

79. “The music raced, but time crawled.”

— Helen Hoang

80. “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

81. “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

82. “Palm to palm, two lonely halves found comfort together.”

— Helen Hoang

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

— Helen Hoang

84. “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

85. “This crusade to fix herself was ending right now. She wasn’t broken. She saw and interacted with the world in a different way, but that was her. She could change her actions, change her words, change her appearance, but she couldn’t change the root of herself. At her core, she would always be autistic. People called it a disorder, but it didn’t feel like one. To her, it was simply the way she was.”

— Helen Hoang

86. “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

87. “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

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

— Helen Hoang

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

— Helen Hoang

90. “People called it a disorder, but it didn’t feel like one. To her, it was simply the way she was.”

— Helen Hoang

91. “He kissed her like she was his whole world, and if she weren’t already kneeling, she would have collapsed to the floor.”

— Helen Hoang

92. “She ached so badly to be held it felt like a sickness had invaded her muscles and bones. As usual, her own arms provided little comfort.”

— Helen Hoang

93. “People like me better when I make them feel good about themselves.”

— Helen Hoang

94. “I wasn’t loneliness if it could be eradicated with work or a Netflix marathon or a good book. Real loneliness would stick with you all the time. Real loneliness would hurt you nonstop.”

— Helen Hoang

95. “This yearning for her, this craving, it’s sunk so deep into me that it’s part of me now. This is how Quan is now. He’s crazy about this one girl.”

— Helen Hoang

96. “He matters more to me than the voices in my head.”

— Helen Hoang

97. “I have a feeling she loves symmetry like cats love catnip.”

— Helen Hoang

98. “It’s economics.”

— Helen Hoang

99. “What happened when you gave someone an opportunity?”

— Helen Hoang

100. “How did you change your life when you were trapped like this? Her history didn’t define her. Her origins didn’t define her. At least, they shouldn’t. She could be more, if she had a chance.”

— Helen Hoang