Colleen Hoover
Colleen Hoover is an author of young adult fiction and romance novels. She published her first novel, Slammed, in January 2012. In December 2012, she published Hopeless, which rose to the top of the New York Times best seller list. (Colleen Hoover Quotes)
“A body is simply a package for the true gifts inside. And you are full of gifts. Selflessness, kindness, compassion. All the things that matter.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“A guy can tell a girl he’s in love with her until he’s blue in the face. Words don’t mean anything to a woman when her head’s full of doubt. You have to show her.”
Colleen Hoover
Point of Retreat
“A man can tell a woman he’s in love with her until he’s blue in the face. Words don’t mean anything to her when her head is full of doubt. You have to show her.”
Colleen Hoover
Point of Retreat
“A person can’t help their attraction to another person, but a person can help their actions toward another person.”
Colleen Hoover
Without Merit
“A terrible sex life is like a virus. Your marriage can be healthy in all other aspects, but once the sex dies out, it starts to infect all the other parts of your relationship.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“A Wi-Fi connection and a credit card make it easy to live life completely indoors in Manhattan. Anything and everything a person could possibly need can be delivered. Funny how one of the most populated cities in the world can double as a paradise for agoraphobics.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“A woman knows if she wants to keep a man forever, she has to act like she could get over him in a day.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“A writer should never have the audacity to write about themselves unless they’re willing to separate every layer of protection between the author’s soul and their book. The words should come directly from the center of the gut, tearing through flesh and bone as they break free. Ugly and honest and bloody and a little bit terrifying, but completely exposed.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“All humans make mistakes. What determines a person’s character aren’t the mistakes we make. It’s how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“All I want is for you to be happy. That’s all I’ve ever wanted. And I’ll do anything to make that happen for you, even if it means helping you to forget me.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“Always remember there is nothing worth sharing, like the love that let us share our name.”
Colleen Hoover
Slammed
“And as hard as this choice is, we break the pattern before the pattern breaks us.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“And once again in my new world full of heartache and lies, this hopeless boy somehow finds a way to make me smile.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“And that’s what love at first sight is. It isn’t really love at first sight until you’ve been with the person long enough for it to become love at first sight.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“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
Verity
“And that’s where love finds you… in the tragedies.”
Colleen Hoover
Too Late
“Apologies are good for admitting regret, but they do very little in removing the truth from the actions that caused the regret.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“Apologies shouldn’t happen because of the response of the person who was wronged. Apologies should happen because of the wrong”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Now
“As humans, we can’t expect to shoulder all of our pain. Sometimes we have to share it with the people who love us so we don’t come crashing down from the weight of it all.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“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
Verity
“As soon as the words leave her mouth, I’m completely consumed by a sense of peace. For the first time since the second she was taken away from me, I finally know what forgiveness feels like.”
Colleen Hoover
Losing Hope
“At this point I don’t really care how we met. I only care that we met.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“Avoidance sounds like such a harmless word, but that one word can cause some severe damage to a relationship.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“Because it feels like her air just became my air and I suddenly want to take in fewer breaths in order to ensure she never runs out.”
Colleen Hoover
Finding Cinderella
“Because most of the time, the fun you have that leads to the pain is worth the pain.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“Because when you love someone, you owe it to them to help them be the best version of themselves that they can be. And as much as it crushes me to admit this, the best version of you doesn’t include me.” (Colleen Hoover Quotes)
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“Becoming a mother isn’t about securing your own happiness. It’s about taking the chance of being terrified and even devastated for the sake of a child.”
Colleen Hoover
Finding Perfect
“Before I slowly lower myself on top of you and our hands become curious and brave. Before my fingers slip under the hem of your shirt. Before my hand begins to explore its way up your stomach, and I discover I’ve never touched skin as soft as yours.”
Colleen Hoover
Finding Cinderella
“Boston isn’t any different from any other big city, I guess. There’s not a lot that makes it stand out. It’s just . . . I don’t know. There’s a vibe. A really good energy. When people say they live in Boston, they’re proud of it. I miss that sometimes.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“But anyone who sees your scars before they see you doesn’t deserve you.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“But for the first time, I don’t feel like the English language has developed enough letters in the alphabet to adequately express the words I want to say to you.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“But I’ve learned over the past year what it really means to be able to miss someone. In order to miss someone, that means you were privileged enough to have them in your life to begin with.”
Colleen Hoover
Losing Hope
“But I’m not falling in love with her piece by piece anymore. I’m in love with the whole girl. Every single piece of her.”
Colleen Hoover
Losing Hope
“But knowing the difference between right and wrong doesn’t change the way you feel. It just makes you feel guiltier that you feel that way.”
Colleen Hoover
Too Late
“But people need to put themselves first sometimes. If you aren’t living your best life for yourself, you can’t be your best self for those in your life.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Now
“But sometimes you can’t control where your mind goes. You just have to train it not to go there anymore.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“Caring for your body is no different from caring for a child. Sometimes it’s hard, sometimes it sucks, sometimes you just want to give in, but if you do, you’ll pay for the consequences eighteen years down the road.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“Charlie is the devastation left in the wake of a tornado.”
Colleen Hoover
Never Never
“Choose your battles, but don’t choose very many.”
Colleen Hoover
Slammed
“Confrontation leads to action. Avoidance leads to inaction.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“Cycles exist because they are excruciating to break. It takes an astronomical amount of pain and courage to disrupt a familiar pattern. Sometimes it seems easier to just keep running in the same familiar circles, rather than facing the fear of jumping and possibly not landing on your feet.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“Damaged people recognize other damaged people. It’s like a club you don’t want a membership to.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“Don’t focus on why you’re playing the game. Just focus on the finish line.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“Don’t make your presence known. Make your absence felt.”
Colleen Hoover
Without Merit
“Don’t tempt the scorpion if you don’t want to get stung.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“Don’t ask about my past. And never expect a future.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“Don’t take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
Colleen Hoover
Slammed
“Every single second with her felt like an awakening. Like I’d never really opened my eyes until she came along. I was blind but now I see.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“Every time I’m with him, he fills my heart up more and more, and the more it’s filled with pieces of him, the more painful it’ll be when he rips it out of my chest as though it never belonged there in the first place”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“Everyone deserves another chance. Especially the people who mean the most to you.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“Everything about her is captivating, like the aftermath of a storm. People aren’t supposed to get pleasure out of the destruction Mother Nature is capable of, but we want to stare anyway. Charlie is the devastation left in the wake of a tornado.”
Colleen Hoover
Never Never
“Falling in love with her was weightless, like air was breezing through my bones. Falling out of love is fucking heavy, like my lungs are carved from iron.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“For her I bend, for you I break.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“For some reason, sadness in music eases the sadness in my soul. It’s like the worse the heartache in a song is, the better I feel. Dramatic songs are like a drug, I imagine. Really bad for you, but they make you feel good.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“Fuck all the firsts, Sky. The only thing that matters to me with you is the forever.”
Colleen Hoover
Losing Hope
“Fuck my father and his bullshit philosophies on love.”
Colleen Hoover
Too Late
“Goals are achieved through discomfort and hard work. They aren’t achieved when you hide out in a place where you’re nice and cozy.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“God gives us the ugliness so we don’t take the beautiful things in life for granted.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“Grief is a beast, but it’s also a great excuse.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“He hugs me. That’s all he does. He hugs me tightly without a word, yet I can feel everything he’s saying.”
Colleen Hoover
Too Late
“He is enough for me. The problem is… he could be so much more without me.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“He pulls back to look down at me and when he sees my tears, he brings his hands up to my cheeks. “In the future… if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again… fall in love with me.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“He takes a step closer to me and it suddenly feels like I’ve swallowed his heart because I have all these extra beats in my chest”
Colleen Hoover
Without Merit
“He unclenched his fists and dropped her worries, unable to catch them for her. But she picked them back up and dusted them off. She wants to be able to hold them herself now.”
Colleen Hoover
Too Late
“He’s looking at me like he was in that picture. Full of heartache. Or maybe this is what Jonah looks like when he loves something so much it hurts.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“Heartbreak builds character.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“Hearts don’t have bones. They can’t actually break.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“Her eyes are like two open books and I suddenly want to devour every page”
Colleen Hoover
Never Never
“Her lips are in close proximity to mine, so of course I have to kiss them.”
Colleen Hoover
Point of Retreat
“Here in Manhattan, a pedestrian struck by a vehicle happens so often, it’s not much more than an inconvenience. A delay in traffic for some, a ruined wardrobe for others. This probably happens so often, it won’t even end up in print.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“Hey, heart. Are you listening? You and I are officially at war.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“His lips against mine feel like everything. Like living and dying and being reborn, all at the same time.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“Home still feels like a mythical place I’ve been searching for my whole life.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“How odd to be made of flesh, balanced on bone, and filled with a soul you’ve never met.”
Colleen Hoover
Never Never
“However, I’ve learned that the heart can’t be told when and who and how it should love. The heart does whatever the hell it wants to do. The only thing we can control is whether we give our lives and our minds the chance to catch up to our hearts.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“I actually really like how ambitious you are. It’s kind of sexy. It might even be my favorite thing about you.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“I bury my head in my hands to take a moment. I quietly grieve what could have been. What is. What wasn’t.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“I can already tell he isn’t the kind of guy a girl gets a simple crush on. He’s the kind of guy you fall hard for, and the thought of that terrifies me.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“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
All Your Perfects
“I can’t believe I’m falling in love with such a stupid, stupid asshole.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Not
“I can’t explain the mind of a writer to you. Especially the mind of a writer who has been through more devastation than most writers combined. We’re able to separate our reality from fiction in such a way that it feels as if we live in both worlds, but never both worlds at once.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“I can’t for the life of me figure out how people function from day to day when they like someone this much. If it were up to me, we would kiss all day and all night and do nothing in between except maybe talk a little.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“I can’t wait to pretend I hate you today.” “I can’t wait to pretend I hate you more.”
Colleen Hoover
Finding Cinderella
“I can’t explain to you how perfect this girl is. And when I say perfect, I mean imperfect, because there’s just too much wrong with her. But everything wrong with her is everything that draws me in and makes her perfect.”
Colleen Hoover
Losing Hope
“I continue to exist, and he continues to exist, but we don’t exist together.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“I cried because I realized that no matter who he’s become, a part of me is still in love with him…because I don’t know how not to be.”
Colleen Hoover
Too Late
“I don’t come across people who hoard secrets like I do. Most people want a listener. Someone they can spill everything to.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“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
November 9
“I don’t feel lost in him at all, because it’s the first time I’ve ever felt like someone truly found me.”
Colleen Hoover
Confess
“I don’t want to call him an asshole. He’s a little kid, and he’s been through a lot. But I think he might be an asshole.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“I don’t even know if people should use the working fucking and angel in the same thought structure, but shit. She really looks like a fucking angel.”
Colleen Hoover
Finding Cinderella
“I don’t even try to offer him reassuring words. Sometimes situations don’t have a positive side. They just have a whole lot of sad sides.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“I don’t know what will be more painful. Staying away from her so she doesn’t find out, or telling her the truth and ruining her life all over again.”
Colleen Hoover
Losing Hope
“I don’t know why I always feel like crying when I’m around him. When I think about him. When I read about him. It’s like my emotions are still tethered to him somehow and I can’t figure out how to cut the strings.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“I don’t like that I was never fully able to let go of him, no matter how hard I tried.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“I don’t want to be someone’s second choice.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“I don’t want you to change, Bridgette. I’m not in love with who you could be, or who you used to be, or who the world says you should be. I’m in love with you. Right now. Just like this.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Not
“I feel his voice in my stomach. That’s not good. Voices should stop at the ears, but sometimes—not very often at all, actually—a voice will penetrate past my ears and reverberate straight down through my body. He has one of those voices. Deep, confident, and a little bit like butter.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“I feel like a waterfall around him, just spilling myself and my secrets out all over the floor.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“I feel like everyone fakes who they really are, when deep down we’re all equal amounts of screwed up. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“I feel like my maybe someday just became my right now.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“I feel like this is the first time I’ve ever been touched by a man. The few who came before him were all boys—nervous hands and timid mouths. But Ryle is all confidence. He knows exactly where to touch me and exactly how to kiss me.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“I found out that depression doesn’t necessarily mean a person is miserable or suicidal all the time. Indifference is also a sign of depression.”
Colleen Hoover
Without Merit
“I get no reaction from her. Nothing. Which means I get everything.”
Colleen Hoover
Never Never
“I guess that’s the difference in being loved the right way and the wrong way. You either feel tethered to an anchor…or you feel like you’re flying.”
Colleen Hoover
Too Late
“I hate everybody too, Cinderella. She laughs softly, probably confused as to why I just referred to her as Cinderella.”
Colleen Hoover
Finding Cinderella
“I hear people talk about good men, but I’m starting to think that’s a myth.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“I hear the crack of his skull before the spattering of blood reaches me.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“I hope you defy the odds of most dreams and actually accomplish yours.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“I just crave you more than I’ve ever craved anything in my life.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“I just wanna make sure that you don’t miss out on the things in life that are happening when you’re not thinking. Because believe me, those are the best things in life.”
Colleen Hoover
This Girl
“I keep running back to the starting line because I don’t want to be finished with you.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“I kind of like that Samson is a closed book. You can’t really dislike a book you haven’t read yet.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“I kiss her every way I can possibly kiss her, because I plan on loving her every way I can possibly love her. Every single time we refused to cave in to our feelings in the past makes this kiss completely worth the sacrifices.” (Colleen Hoover Quotes)
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“I know is if you’re going to cheat on Silas Nash it had better be with Ryan Gosling.”
Colleen Hoover
Never Never
“I know my life as a whole hasn’t been perfect, but I’m finally starting to appreciate all the perfect things within it.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“I know the thought of confronting your past terrifies you. It terrifies every man. But sometimes we don’t do it ourselves. We do it for the people we love more than ourselves.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“I lean forward and grab the bowl of ice cream she didn’t finish and pull it to my, then take a bite. She watches me as I close my lips around the spoon and pull it out of my mouth. She scrunches up her nose staring at the spoon. “I could have herpes, you know,” she says. I grin at her and wink. “You somehow just made herpes sound appealing.”
Colleen Hoover
Finding Cinderella
“I lean my head back and close my eyes, attempting to figure out where I went right in my life to deserve her.”
Colleen Hoover
Finding Cinderella
“I learned very early on that a human is not merely comprised of only one thing. We are two parts that make up the whole. We have our conscious, which includes our mind, our soul, and all the intangible parts. And we have our physical being, which is the machine that our conscious relies on for survival. If you fuck with the machine, you will die. If you neglect the machine, you will die. If you assume your conscious can outlive the machine, you will die shortly after learning you were wrong.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“I lie back on my pillow and think back to that day. The day that I fell for my wife.”
Colleen Hoover
This Girl
“I like you enough to kiss you. Believe me. But I just wish you could like yourself as much as I like you.”
Colleen Hoover
Without Merit
“I like you. Everything about you. Being inside of you. Being outside of you. Being near you. I like it all.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“I love it when the night sky makes me feel insignificant.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“I may not remember anything about her, but I would bet her smile was my favorite part of her.”
Colleen Hoover
Never Never
“I need her to admit that there’s an actual heart inside her chest. And that sometimes it beats for me.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Not
“I need you to know that it was always you who had my heart. And I would have never let anyone else borrow it if I knew there was a chance in hell you’d ever want it back.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“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
Verity
“I probably didn’t notice because sadness is like a spiderweb. You don’t see it until you’re caught up in it, and then you have to claw at yourself to try to break free.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“I promise to love you more when you hate me than when you love me.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“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
All Your Perfects
“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
Regretting You
“I stretch truths where I see fit. I’m a writer.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“I suppose if a man lived through the ugliest side of love, he might never want to experience it again.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“I swear I will spend every last breath thanking you for allowing yourself to love me.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“I think about how sometimes, no matter how convinced you are that your life will turn out a certain way, all that certainty can be washed away with a simple change in tide.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“I think if a person is really, truly in love then it has to be unconditional.”
Colleen Hoover
Finding Cinderella
“I think it takes being loved in order to know how to love.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Not
“I think that should be this year’s goal. You need to figure out what you’re passionate about. Because it can’t be being a housewife.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“I think that’s one of the biggest signs a person has matured—knowing how to appreciate things that matter to others, even if they don’t matter very much to you.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“I think we all just got to a point where we were waiting for someone else to initiate it, but no one ever did. 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
Without Merit
“I think when you’re the worst of people, finding the worst in others becomes a survival tactic of sorts. You focus heavily on the darkness in people in hopes of masking the true shade of your own darkness.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“I thought I knew who I was, but I had no idea people can become different versions of themselves in different settings.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“I thought I was stronger than a word, but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“I used to be fine when I was alone. But now that I have you, I’m lonely when I’m alone.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“I used to feel like i was on the top of the world. Then one day, i noticed that it felt like i was no longer on the top of the world. I was just floating around inside of it. And then eventually, it felt like the world was on top of me.”
Colleen Hoover
Without Merit
“I used to tell her to think about the sky when she got sad and she always promised me she would. Now here she is. And her name is Sky.”
Colleen Hoover
Losing Hope
“I used to think the best part of me died with Les, but the best part of me is standing right here in front of me.”
Colleen Hoover
Losing Hope
“I want her so much I’ll be the Romeo to her Juliet and take whatever the hell kind of poison she wants to put on my tongue right now.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“I want her to wait for me. I want her to wait for me so bad. I don’t want to think about her ever allowing anyone bedsides me to love her.”
Colleen Hoover
This Girl
“I want to be your end, but you gotta let it begin.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“I want to be your soulmate, even if I don’t believe in them.”
Colleen Hoover
This Girl
“I want you to keep them open…because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“I want you to remember how it feels when I look at you.”
Colleen Hoover
Confess
“I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren’t you. They are just things that happen to you. You need to accept that who you are and the things that happen you, are not one and the same.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“I was good at spewing bullshit. It’s why I became a writer.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“I wasn’t heroic. I wasn’t simple. I was difficult. An emotionally challenging puzzle he wasn’t up for solving.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“I went running and I ran into her again thanks to fate or coincidence or divine intervention or maybe you had something to do with it.”
Colleen Hoover
Losing Hope
“I wish I could bottle up the expression on his face and release it any time I need a good laugh.”
Colleen Hoover
Never Never
“I wish I were in high school again so I could call him a butthole. Adults don’t call their brothers buttholes, though.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“I wonder how many marriages would have survived if it weren’t for the children they created together. How many couples would have continued to live together happily without the children being the glue that holds their family together.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“I wonder if humans are the only living creatures that ever feel hollow inside.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“I wonder if it’s possible for people to fall in love with a person one characteristic at a time, or if you fall for the entire person at once.”
Colleen Hoover
Losing Hope
“I would never let anyone else borrow my heart if I know there’s a chance in hell you might want it back.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“I’d feel nothing if you punched me in the heart I’d feel even less if you stabbed me with a knife But I didn’t fall out of love with you I fell out of love with life”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“I’ll keep pretending to swim, when really all I’m doing is floating. Barely keeping my head above water.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“I’ll never be able to give you everything you deserve, but I’ll definitely spend the rest of my life trying.”
Colleen Hoover
Point of Retreat
“I’m beginning to think Verity writes from a villainous point of view because she’s a villain. Being evil is all she knows.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“I’m blooming for the first time since I broke through the earth’s soil.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“I’m confident that I’ll never spend a single second of my life regretting you.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“I’m content with the direction in which my life is headed, and I know if I obsess over the past, that obsession will only serve to anchor me in a place I am more than ready to move on from.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“I’m full of all this untapped potential. Sometimes my chest feels hollow, as if I’ve lived a life with nothing significant enough to fill it. My heart is full, but that’s the only part of me that feels any weight.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“I’m in love with her. Like, really in love with her. Crippling, debilitating, paralyzing love.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“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.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“I’m pretty sure it’s too soon to love her, but shit. She’s got to stop doing and saying these unexpected things that make me want to fast-forward whatever’s going on between us. Because I want to kiss her and make love to her and marry her and make her have my babies and I want it all to happen tonight”
Colleen Hoover
Losing Hope
“I’m terrified to lose him for good, so I sell myself short and take what I can from him, even though I know I deserve better.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“I’m the only one that can be held accountable for the way my life turns out.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“I’ve never loved someone I hate so much, and I’ve never hated someone I love so much.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“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
Confess
“If a scientist could figure out how to align the heart with the brain, there would be very little agony left in the world.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“If an attraction is present between two people, those two people can only be one of two things. Involved or not involved. There is no in-between.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“If being with Tate for a few short months can make that pain bearable enough for you to answer with maybe, imagine what a lifetime with her could do for you.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“If God’s the type of guy that would damn you to Hell just for loving someone, then I wouldn’t want to spend eternity with Him, anyway.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“If he ever hurts me again, I’ll be far from just fine. I’ll be broken.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“If I have to pretend my way through this entire year, it’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to smile so much that my fake smile eventually becomes real.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“If I live the life I’m given, I won’t be scared to die.”
Colleen Hoover
Slammed
“If I took every romantic poem, every book, every song, and every movie I’ve ever read, heard or seen and extracted the breathtaking moments, somehow bottling them up, they would pale in comparison to this moment. This moment is incomparable.”
Colleen Hoover
This Girl
“If I were a carpenter, I would build you a window to my soul. But I would leave that window shut and locked, so that every time you tried to look through it all you would see is your own reflection. You would see that my soul is a reflection of you.”
Colleen Hoover
Point of Retreat
“If I were dead like Snow White and he kissed me like that, surely my heart would kick back to life. That I’d be the one to slay dragons for that kiss.”
Colleen Hoover
Never Never
“If my life were a scary movie, I’d be the first to die.”
Colleen Hoover
Without Merit
“If silence were a river, your tongue would be the boat.”
Colleen Hoover
Without Merit
“If that boy can’t see what a good thing he could have with you, then he ain’t worth your time.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“If there are two people in this world capable of finding a way to love each other, it’s us.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“If there’s one thing I learned from Samson this summer, it’s that holding everything in accomplishes nothing. It just causes the truth to hurt even worse in the end.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“If this bitch turned off that goddamn television, I’m walking out that front door without shoes on and I’m never coming back.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“If this is his idea of flirting, it’s a strange way to flirt. But sadly, I’m attracted to unconventional and strange.”
Colleen Hoover
Without Merit
“If we’re going to kiss, it has to be book-worthy.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“If you aren’t living your best life for yourself, you can’t be your best self for those in your life.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Now
“If you have sex with me, Bridgette, you’re the one in danger of becoming clingy. You’ll want so much more of me, I won’t be able to tell the difference between you and Saran Wrap.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Not
“If you only shine light on your flaws, all your perfects will dim.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“If you were a game, Silas, you’d be Monopoly. You just go on and on and everyone ends up cheating just to be over with it.”
Colleen Hoover
Never Never
“If you would have walked out of this room today without crying, it would have devastated me.”
Colleen Hoover
Confess
“If you’re destined to be poor, it’s better to be the happy kind of poor.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“I’m afraid if I listen to my heart once, I’ll never figure out how to ignore it again.”
Colleen Hoover
Confess
“I’m crying too hard to admit it. I’m crying too hard to deny it.”
Colleen Hoover
Too Late
“I’m definitely an introvert, because people drain me. And now I need silence to refuel.”
Colleen Hoover
Too Late
“I’m not a sucker for happily ever after, but if these two characters don’t get theirs I might climb inside this e-reader and lock them both inside that damn garage forever.” (Colleen Hoover Quotes)
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“I’m not in love with who you could be, or who you used to be, or who the world says you should be. I’m in love with you. Right now. Just like this.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Not
“I’m pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“I’m worried that feelings are the one thing in our lives that we have absolutely no control over.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and make more of an impact than others. Sometimes the waves bring with them things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they leave those things tossed onto the shore. Imprints against the grains of sand that prove the waves had once been there, long after the tide recedes.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“Imagine how great we’ll be when I’m finally emotionally stable.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“Imperfections define perfection”
Colleen Hoover
Slammed
“In order to be embarrassed, a person has to care about the opinions of others first.”
Colleen Hoover
Confess
“In order to miss someone, that means you were privileged enough to have them in your life to begin with.”
Colleen Hoover
Losing Hope
“In reality, people are who they are and they’ll never really change.”
Colleen Hoover
Finding Cinderella
“Isn’t that what it’s all about? Sacrificing for the person you like so that you can see them happy?”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“It annoys me when people try to convince other people that their anger or stress isn’t warranted if someone else in the world is worse off than them. It’s bullshit. 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
Without Merit
“It blows my mind that I get to love you.”
Colleen Hoover
Finding Cinderella
“It feels sort of euphoric, like we’re in some sort of fairytale. Like she’s Tinkerbell and I’m Peter Pan. No, wait. I don’t want to be Peter Pan. Maybe she can be like Cinderella and I’ll be her Prince Charming. Yeah, I like that fantasy better. Cinderella’s hot when she’s all poor and sweaty and slaving over the stove.”
Colleen Hoover
Finding Cinderella
“It isn’t really love at first sight until you’ve been with the person long enough for it to become love at first sight.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“It may be a small piece at a time, but my past is yours now. All of it. Anything you want to know, I want to tell you. But only if you promise me I can also have your future.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“It means people who make mistakes usually learn from them. That doesn’t make them hypocrites. It makes them experienced.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“It took four years for me to fall in love with him. It only took four pages to stop.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“It was life. Life happens. Shit happens. And it happens a lot. To a lot of people.”
Colleen Hoover
Slammed
“It was like someone let all the air back into my life when I had no idea I was even suffocating.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“It’s amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.”
Colleen Hoover
Confess
“It’s become our nightly routine. She stresses out. I soothe her. We make love.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“It’s been proven that people who read live longer. Are you trying to die young?”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“It’s better to be a selfless somebody than to be a selfish nobody.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“It’s easy to fall in love, Ben. The hard part comes when you want out.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“It’s funny how he refuses to make eye contact during sex yet can’t seem to keep his eyes off me the rest of the time.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“It’s hard to fall in love with assholes, Warren. Maybe you just haven’t met the right asshole yet.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Not
“It’s interesting how much a person’s belief system can be changed by things in this world that can’t be explained. Hell, not just my belief system, but my morals.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“It’s like all her resilience is buried beneath layers of scar tissue now.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“It’s not a confession if no one reads it. It’s just an unshared secret.”
Colleen Hoover
Confess
“It’s not a good feeling, knowing someone has convinced themselves they’re more in love with you than they are simply because you’re dependent on them. I’d rather feel melancholic than pathetic.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Now
“It’s not a person’s actions that hurt the most. It’s the love. If there was no love attached to the action, the pain would be a little easier to bear.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“It’s one thing for a person to find their passion, but it’s another thing entirely to be able to share that passion with the person you’re passionate about.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Now
“It’s strange how I can miss a person who is still here. It’s strange that I can miss making love to a person I still have sex with.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“It’s the beautiful moments like these that make up for the ugly love.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“It’s the first time I don’t look at him and feel guilty for everything I can’t give him because I know how grateful he is for everything I can give him.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“It’s the small things people do for others that define the largest parts of them.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Now
“It’s weird and normal and hot and sad and strange and I don’t really want to let go.”
Colleen Hoover
Finding Cinderella
“It’s weird how your whole life can completely change in the hours between waking up and going to bed.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“It’s weird, having thoughts of divorcing someone I’m in love with.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“It’s what happens when two people become one: they no longer only share love. They also share all of the pain, heartache, sorrow, and grief.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“It’s what you do when you’ve experienced the worst of the worst. You seek out people like you…people worse off than you…and you use them to make yourself feel better about the terrible things that have happened to you.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“It’s all worth it. It’s the beautiful moments like these that make up for the ugly love.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“It’s amazing how you don’t realize just how alone and scared you were until you have someone by your side to support you.”
Colleen Hoover
Confess
“It’s crap that you’re letting on bad year determine your fate for the rest of your life.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“It’s funny how that works. 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 from your very first one.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“It’s funny how you can be so happy with someone and love them so much, it creates an underlying sense of fear in you that you never knew before them. The fear of losing them. The fear of them getting hurt.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“It’s like you came along and woke up my soul”
Colleen Hoover
Point of Retreat
“It’s the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“It’s the clear headedness behind her voice and the calm reasonable expression in her eyes that rips my heart right out of my chest. She turns to leave and all I can do is let her go. I just let her go.”
Colleen Hoover
Point of Retreat
“I’ve dealt with life the only way I know how. It works for me, and I don’t need you or anyone else to try and figure me out or fix me. I am who I am and I’ve accepted that.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Not
“I’ve loved Hope since we were kids. But tonight? Tonight I fell in love with Sky.”
Colleen Hoover
Losing Hope
“Just because someone hurts you doesn’t mean you can simply stop loving them. It’s not a person’s actions that hurt the most. It’s the love. If there was no love attached to the action, the pain would be a little easier to bear.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“Just because we didn’t end up on the same wave, doesn’t mean we aren’t still a part of the same ocean.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“Just because you blocked the memory of me out of your mind doesn’t mean you blocked the memory of me out of your heart”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“Keep an open mind; it’s the only way new things can get in.”
Colleen Hoover
Slammed
“Kindness doesn’t sink as deep into your skin as the damage does. The damage stains your soul so bad, you can’t scrub it off.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“Kisses like his should come with a warning label. They can’t be good for the heart.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“Layken Cooper, I love you. I’ve loved you since the second I laid eyes on you and I haven’t stopped loving you for a second since.”
Colleen Hoover
This Girl
“Layla is my soul mate in every realm of life.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn’t waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never.” (Colleen Hoover Quotes)
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“Losing your virginity doesn’t make you more of a woman than a virgin. It just means your hymen is broken. Big whoop.”
Colleen Hoover
Without Merit
“Love finds you in the forgiveness at the tail end of a fight. Love finds you in the empathy you feel for someone else. Love finds you in the embrace that follows a tragedy. Love finds you in the celebration after the conquering of an illness. Love finds you in the devastation after the surrender to an illness.”
Colleen Hoover
Too Late
“Love is a lot like water. It can be calm. Raging. Threatening. Soothing. Water will be many things, but even in all its forms, it will always be water. You are my water. I think I might be yours, too.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“Love is not found. Love finds”
Colleen Hoover
Too Late
“Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the hardest things in the world to hold on to, and one of the easiest things to throw away.”
Colleen Hoover
Point of Retreat
“Love isn’t always pretty, Tate. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it’ll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you’re back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“Love shouldn’t feel like added weight. It should make you feel as light as air.”
Colleen Hoover
Too Late
“Loving someone means accepting all the things and people that person loves, too.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“Lust is the best of all the deadly sins.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“Marriage is about compromise. It’s about doing what’s best for the couple as a whole, not individually.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“Maybe I’m not the hero to her I’ve always tried so hard to be, because right now, I feel as if she doesn’t even need a hero. Why would she? She has someone so much stronger than I’ll ever be for her. She has herself.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“Maybe love isn’t something that comes full circle. It just ebbs and flows, in and out, just like the people in our lives”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“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
Without Merit
“Maybe the grand gestures don’t matter nearly as much as all the inconsequential things between the two main characters.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“Maybe we did grow heart bones. But what if the only way of knowing you grew a heart bone is by feeling the agony caused by the break?”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“Minutes feel like they matter more when they’re spent with her.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“Most kids get the kind of parents that’ll be missed after they die. The rest of us get the kind of parents who make better parents after they’re dead.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“Most people are predictable. Every word and action from Layla is like being handed a gift-wrapped surprise.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“Most people want a listener. Someone they can spill everything to.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“My attention is constantly homed in on her like I’m a compass and she’s my North.”
Colleen Hoover
Losing Hope
“My drawers are neat. I must have OCD. I toss around the socks and underwear to see if I can piss myself off.”
Colleen Hoover
Never Never
“My favorite conversations are the ones with no real answers.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“My God, this man can kiss. It’s as if he takes kissing as seriously as he takes his profession.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“My heart made it’s choice, and it chose you.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“My heart pounds against my chest. Not because I’m nervous. Not even because I want her worse that I’ve ever wanted her before. It’s pounding against my chest because I realize I’ve never been so sure about the rest of my life than I am in this moment. This girl is the rest of my life.”
Colleen Hoover
Point of Retreat
“My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in a land of happily ever after.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“My mother says there are people you meet and get to know, and then there are people you meet and already know.”
Colleen Hoover
Confess
“My mother used to say that houses have a soul, and if that is true, the soul of Verity Crawford’s house is as dark as they come.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“Naked truths aren’t always pretty.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“Neither of us says I love you before we fall asleep. Sometimes two people share a silent moment that feels so deep and so powerful, a simple phrase such as I love you risks losing all prior meaning if spoken aloud.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Now
“Never in all my life and in all my years of living in a world of silence have I wanted to hear something as much as I want to hear her sing right now. I want to hear her so bad it physically hurts.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life.”
Colleen Hoover
Slammed
“Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.”
Colleen Hoover
Point of Retreat
“No matter how convinced you are that your life will turn out a certain way, all that certainty can be washed away with a simple change in tide.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“No matter how much you love someone – the capacity of that love is meaningless if it outweighs your capacity to forgive.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“No one is exclusively bad, nor is anyone exclusively good. Some are just forced to work harder at suppressing the bad.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“No one is likable from the inside out.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness.”
Colleen Hoover
Without Merit
“Not everything is going to go my way and not everyone gets a happily ever after. Life is real and sometimes it’s ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“Nothing in my life has ever felt so good yet hurt so achingly bad.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.”
Colleen Hoover
Slammed
“Now that I have you back, I’m never letting you go. That’s a promise. I’m not letting you go again.”
Colleen Hoover
Point of Retreat
“One should only walk away from an autobiography with, at best, an uncomfortable distaste for its author.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“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
All Your Perfects
“People aren’t supposed to get pleasure out of the destruction Mother Nature is capable of, but we want to stare anyway”
Colleen Hoover
Never Never
“People can’t always control who their circumstances turn them into.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“People can’t control matters of the heart. They can only control their actions”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“People can’t miss what they’ve never been introduced to.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“People don’t get to choose who they fall in love with. They only get to choose who they stay in love with.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“People get married assuming they’ll live long, happy lives together. What happens when one of those is cut short, but the other is expected to live out those vows for the rest of their life? It doesn’t seem fair.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“People like me belong in overpopulated cities. The state of my life is irrelevant in a place this size. There are far more people here with stories much more pitiful than mine. Here, I’m invisible. Unimportant. Manhattan is too crowded to give a shit about me, and I love her for it.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“People sometimes still drown in the shallow end,” he whispers.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“Perhaps what we desire can sometimes be so strong it overpowers our fate.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“Personalities are shaped more by damage than kindness.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“Please don’t allow anyone to make you feel less than what you are.”
Colleen Hoover
Confess
“Poor people don’t show up to charity events unless they’re serving the rich.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“Preventing your heart from forgiving someone you love is actually a hell of a lot harder than simply forgiving them.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“Push your boundaries, that’s what they’re there for.”
Colleen Hoover
Slammed
“Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don’t have questions, you’ll never find answers.”
Colleen Hoover
Slammed
“Relationships are hard for that very reason. Your body and your heart don’t stop finding the beauty and the attraction in other people simply because you’ve made a commitment to one person. If you ever find yourself in a situation where you’re drawn to someone else, it’s up to you to remove yourself from that situation before it becomes too hard to fight.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“Resentment is a heavy load to carry through life.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“Right after something tragic happens, you feel like you’ve fallen off a cliff. But after the tragedy starts to sink in, you realize you didn’t fall off a cliff. You’re on an eternal roller coaster that just reached the bottom. Now it’s gonna be up and down and upside down for a long, long time. Maybe even forever.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“Seeing the ocean in person feels almost as important as having food and shelter. It doesn’t seem farfetched to believe a charity should exist for the sole purpose of allowing people to afford a trip to the beach. It should be a basic human right. A necessity. It’s like years of therapy, rolled up into a view.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“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
Confess
“She deserves to be kissed by someone who loves her. Someone who spends every waking moment trying to do everything right by her. Someone who would rather die than see her hurt. She doesn’t deserve to be kissed by anyone other than me.”
Colleen Hoover
This Girl
“She dips her spoon into her ice cream, then puts the spoon back in her mouth. I can’t stop staring at that spoon. I think I love that spoon.”
Colleen Hoover
Finding Cinderella
“She just wanted to know where we got the materials for your costume so she can be a hemorrhoid next year.”
Colleen Hoover
Slammed
“She loves me. She just doesn’t like me right now.”
Colleen Hoover
Point of Retreat
“She slams the door shut without saying please or thank you or goodbye. And even though she’s the most inconsiderate person I’ve ever met in real life, I can’t stop smiling. I think we may have just bonded.” (Colleen Hoover Quotes)
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Not
“She’s beautiful, but in a shameful way.”
Colleen Hoover
Never Never
“She’s not the kind of girl you choose your battles for. She’s the kind of girl you fight to the death for.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“She’s so confusing. She’s so frustrating. She’s so damn unpredictable. She’s nothing I’ve ever wanted in a girl. And absolutely everything I need.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Not
“She’s lost in thought. I’m lost in her.”
Colleen Hoover
Never Never
“She’s nothing I’ve ever wanted in a girl. And absolutely everything I need.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Not
“Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“Shouldn’t there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“So just because I like reading about those kinds of guys, doesn’t mean I need my real-life guys to act like that.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“So many people dream of living in a house with a white picket fence. Little do they know, there’s no such thing as a perfect family, no matter how white the picket fence is.”
Colleen Hoover
Without Merit
“So much has happened since then. I’ve changed as a person in more ways than one. That happens when you’re forced to take another person’s life.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“So you keep your ocean, I’ll take the Lake.”
Colleen Hoover
Slammed
“Some families are lucky enough to never e
xperience a single tragedy. But then there are those families that seem to have tragedies waiting on the back burner. What can go wrong, goes wrong. And then gets worse.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“Some people they grow wiser as they grow older. Unfortunately, most people just grow older.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.”
Colleen Hoover
Confess
“Somehow the only thing that eases the hurt just caused by this man is this man. My tears are soothed by his sorrow, my emotions soothed with his mouth against mine, his hand gripping me like he never wants to let go.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“Sometimes a look between two people can last so long, it shakes you. Forces you to look away.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“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. So I just want you to know that tonight when I write this conversation down on paper, I’ll say something really heroic and it’ll make you feel really good about your life.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“Sometimes even grown women need their mother’s comfort so we can just take a break from having to be strong all the time.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“Sometimes I believe personalities are shaped more by damage than kindness. Kindness doesn’t sink as deep into your skin as the damage does. The damage stains your soul so bad, you can’t scrub it off. It stays there forever, and I feel like people can see all my damage just by looking at me.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“Sometimes I wonder if I even want all the answers to my questions.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“Sometimes in order to save a relationship, you have to sacrifice it first.”
Colleen Hoover
Confess
“Sometimes it’s easy to forget how much you miss people until you see them again.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“Sometimes parents have to work through their differences and bring a level of maturity into a situation in order to do what’s best for their child.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“Sometimes people want what they can’t have and confuse that with feelings for another person.”
Colleen Hoover
Confess
“Sometimes situations don’t have a positive side. They just have a whole lot of sad sides.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“Sometimes the light is on in his apartment upstairs and I get the urge to set the place on fire.”
Colleen Hoover
Confess
“Sometimes things happen in life that you didn’t plan for. All you can do is suck it up and start mapping out a new plan.”
Colleen Hoover
Point of Retreat
“Sometimes two people share a silent moment that feels so deep and so powerful, a simple phrase such as I love you risks losing all prior meaning if spoken aloud.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Now
“Sometimes when people change, it’s not always noticeable in a marriage, because the couple changes together, in the same direction. But sometimes people change in opposite directions.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“Sometimes when we’re alone, he looks at me in a way that makes me feel empty when he looks away.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“Sometimes when you hate someone enough, you can’t help but lie awake in bed at night, wondering what life would be like if that person were dead.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“Sometimes you can’t control where your mind goes. You just have to train it not to go there anymore.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“Sometimes you have to walk away from the fight in order to win it.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“Stares shouldn’t have weight, but knowing his eyes are on me makes my steps feel heavier.”
Colleen Hoover
Without Merit
“Stop telling yourself you that you aren’t lovable because it’s pissing me off. I don’t care if you aren’t ready to admit how you really feel about me yet, but don’t you dare dismiss how I feel about you. Because I love you.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Not
“Tacos can excuse a lot of bad decisions, but I’m not sure they’re worthy enough to excuse a possession.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“That one minute of pure happiness I felt and the heartache that came moments later is something I never want to experience again. I’m tired of grieving.”
Colleen Hoover
Slammed
“That’s how it is when a person develops an attraction toward someone. He’s nowhere, then suddenly he’s everywhere, whether you want him to be or not.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“That’s one of my favorite things about him working later than me. I get to watch him take his tie off every day.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“That’s what fifteen minutes can do to a person. It can destroy them. It can save them.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“That’s the beauty of love, isn’t it? It comes in so many different forms, shapes, sizes, textures. And it’s ever changing.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Now
“The good thing about sins is they don’t have to be atoned for immediately.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“The journey from first breath to death has nothing to do with miracles, how much you pray, coincidences, or divine intervention.”
Colleen Hoover
Too Late
“The kiss was full of both desire and respect—two things a lot of men didn’t seem to know could go hand in hand.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“The line isn’t so black and white anymore. I’m pretty sure gray just became my new favorite color.”
Colleen Hoover
This Girl
“The moment my lips touch yours, it will be your first kiss. Because if you’ve never felt anything when someone’s kissed you, then no one’s ever really kissed you. Not the way I plan on kissing you.” (Colleen Hoover Quotes)
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“The more I open up to him, the more I need him. The more I admit to myself that I need him, the most it hurts to know that I still don’t exactly have him.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“The nicest thing my mother has ever done for me is die.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“The only difference between falling in love and being in love is that your heart already knows how you feel, but your mind is too stubborn to admit it.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Not
“The only thing Layla did wrong is fall in love with me.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“The only thing that could possibly separate me from him right now would be a bolt of lightening. Or the fact that it’s raining so hard I can’t breathe.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“The problem is, love and happiness are not concordant. One can exist without the other.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“The problem with hating yourself when you’re all alone is that you have no one to remind you of any of your good qualities. Then you just hate yourself even more, until you sabotage anything good in your life and in yourself.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Now
“The sky is always beautiful. Even when it’s dark or rainy or cloudy, it’s still beautiful to look at….it’ll be there no matter what…and I know it’ll always be beautiful.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“The smaller the house, the more a family is forced to love one another.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. —Elbert Hubbard”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“The things I abhor most about autobiographies are the counterfeit thoughts draped over every sentence. A writer should never have the audacity to write about themselves unless they’re willing to separate every layer of protection between the author’s soul and their book. The words should come directly from the center of the gut, tearing through flesh and bone as they break free. Ugly and honest and bloody and a little bit terrifying, but completely exposed. 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.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“The things lurking around inside the mind can be just as dangerous as tangible threats.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before you were knocked down.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“The thought of marriage repulses me. I’m almost thirty years old and I have no desire for a wife. I especially don’t want children. The only thing I want out of life is success. Lots of it.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“The way he’s looking at me makes me want to rethink one-night stands. I’m not necessarily against them, I suppose. I’ve just never been propositioned for one by someone I would consider it with.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“The world was her manuscript. No surface was safe.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“Then this girl completely shatters the window to my soul and crawls inside.”
Colleen Hoover
This Girl
“There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.”
Colleen Hoover
Confess
“There are three questions every woman should be able to answer yes to before they commit to a man. If you answer no to any of this question, run like hell.”
Colleen Hoover
Slammed
“There are two different kinds of wrong. The wrong that stems from weakness and the wrong that stems from strength. You made that choice because you were strong and needed to survive. You didn’t make that choice because you were weak.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“There could be realms of existence we’ve never even entertained the idea of. They could be endless. I don’t think we ever really die.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“There is no such thing as bad people we’re all just people who sometimes do bad things”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“There were moments I didn’t care if I ever hurt again, because being with you almost felt worth the potential pain.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“There’s definitely some deceit going on here—I’m fully aware of that. But it’s hard to know where to draw the line when the lines aren’t even in the same world.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“There’s no better feeling than being loved for who you are rather than for what you’re worth.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“There’s nothing like the guilt you feel when there’s room in your heart to love evil.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“There’s something annoying about every single human on this planet.”
Colleen Hoover
Layla
“This felt like an end. I’m not sure I was ready for this to be end. I’m not sure I was ready for there ever to be an end, and I hate myself for allowing my feelings to get to that point.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“This is a new feeling—the idea that maybe I’m worth having around.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“This is just human nature, healing an old wound to prepare for a fresh new layer.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“This isn’t a fairy tale. This is reality. If you two end up following your hearts and not your heads, it’ll end in disaster.”
Colleen Hoover
This Girl
“This thing about you that you think is your flaw – it’s the reason I’m falling in love with you.”
Colleen Hoover
Slammed
“This week proved to me that sometimes the storm doesn’t settle. Sometimes the damage is too catastrophic to be repaired.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“Time can definitely heal all wounds. Or at least most of them.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“Time has completely stopped, and all I’m thinking about while we kiss is how this is what saves people. Moments like these with people like her are what make all the sufferings worth it.”
Colleen Hoover
Losing Hope
“True love exists and the people in this house are proof of that.”
Colleen Hoover
Finding Perfect
“Truths are written, never said… Lines are drawn, but then they fade.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“Trying to have a baby. Trying to adopt a baby. Trying to pretend we’re okay. Trying to hide from each other when we cry. It’s all our marriage has become. A whole lot of trying and not much succeeding.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“Ugly love becomes you. Consumes you. Makes you hate it all. Makes you realize that all the beautiful parts aren’t even worth it. Without the beautiful, you’ll never risk feeling the ugly. So you give it all up. You give it all up. You never want love again, no matter what kind it is, because no type of love will ever be worth living through the ugly love again.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“Understanding a situation doesn’t always make it easier”
Colleen Hoover
Slammed
“Until then, I will continue to love you more and more with every struggle we face than I loved you when all was perfect.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“Was this what it felt like to be a mother? To love something so much, the thought of it being ripped away from you causes physical pain?”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“We all have deal-breakers, Daniel. Some of us just hope we can keep them hidden forever.”
Colleen Hoover
Finding Cinderella
“We came so close to losing everything we had built together because of something that was out of our control. Something that should have brought us closer together but instead pulled us further apart.” (Colleen Hoover Quotes)
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“We don’t get to choose our parents, and parents don’t get to choose their children. But we do get to choose how hard we’re willing to work in order to make the best of what we’re given.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“We kiss until the alarm sounds off on my phone.”
Colleen Hoover
Finding Cinderella
“We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn’t waste time on things that might happen someday or maybe even never.”
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
“We shouldn’t revolve our lives around their possible endings. We should revolve our lives around the experiences that lead to the endings.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Now
“We try so hard to hide everything we’re really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it’s somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“We’re only given one mind and body at birth. And they’re the only ones we get, so it’s up to us to take care of ourselves.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“We’re born into the world as just one small piece to the puzzle that makesup an entire life.”
Colleen Hoover
This Girl
“We’ve got an entire lifetime ahead of us to do things like get married. But sometimes things in people’s lives don’t happen in chronological order like they should. Especially in our lives. Our chronological order got mixed up a long time ago.”
Colleen Hoover
Point of Retreat
“What you read will taste so bad at times, you’ll want to spit it out, but you’ll swallow these words and they will become part of you, part of your gut, and you will hurt because of them.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“Whatever burden it was that she was carrying around, I wanted to carry it for her.”
Colleen Hoover
Slammed
“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
All Your Perfects
“When I started writing, it wasn’t my goal to become famous. I dreamt of a life where enough people would buy my books and I could pay my bills and never be propelled into a life of riches and fame. Very few authors reach that level of success, so it was never a concern that it would happen to me.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“When I touch you, I’m touching you because I want to make you happy. When I kiss you, I’m kissing you because you have the most incredible mouth I’ve ever seen and you know I can’t not kiss it. And when I make love to you—I’m doing exactly that. I’m making love to you because I’m in love with you.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“When life gives you lemons, make sure you know who’s eyes you need to squeeze them in.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“When you associate yourself with another person for so long, it’s difficult becoming your own person again.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“When you find love, you take it. You grab it with both hands and you do everything in your power not to let it go. You can’t just walk away from it and expect it to linger until you’re ready for it.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“When you have a mother who can’t love you, how are you supposed to believe anyone else could?”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Now
“When you kiss, you can close your eyes. You can kiss away the thoughts. You can kiss away the pain, the doubt, the shame. When you close your eyes and kiss, you protect yourself from the vulnerability.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“When you meet someone who is good for you, they won’t fill you with insecurities by focusing on your flaws. They’ll fill you with inspiration, because they’ll focus on all the best parts of you.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“When you’re willing to give up the things that mean the most to you just to see someone else happy, that’s real love.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“When your presence somehow brought me to the brink of smiling during the worst moment of my life – that I knew everything would be fine.”
Colleen Hoover
All Your Perfects
“Whenever I’m around him, all I can think about is how much more I want to be around him.”
Colleen Hoover
Too Late
“Whether or not the couple ends up together at the end of a book doesn’t determine whether that book has a happy ending or not. As long as the two people end up happy, it doesn’t really matter if they end up happy together.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“While he spends all of his time trying to remember… I spend all of my time trying to forget”
Colleen Hoover
Never Never
“Whoever coined the phrase, I love you to death obviously never experienced the kind of love Tate and I share. If that were the case, the phrase would be I love you to life. Because that’s exactly what Tate did. She loved me back to life.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“Whoever said the truth hurts was being an optimist. The truth is an excruciatingly painful son of a bitch.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“Why didn’t you tell me that the foundation you taught me to stand on is made from quicksand?”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“Wife,” I say, staring straight into her eyes. “Think what you want, but there isn’t a single woman in this whole damn universe that I could ever love like I love you.”
Colleen Hoover
This Girl
“With every day that passed, that first night with him was further validated. And that’s what love at first sight is. It isn’t really love at first sight until you’ve been with the person long enough for it to become love at first sight.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“Words can sometimes have a far greater effect on a heart than a kiss.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday
“Worries flow from her lips like the random words that flow from her fingertips. I reach out and try to catch them, clenching them in my fists, wanting nothing more than to catch them all.”
Colleen Hoover
Too Late
“You can fill your life with nice things, but nice things don’t fill the holes in your soul.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“You can’t leave yet. I’m not finished falling in love with you.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“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
Verity
“You deserve so much more than what you’re allowing yourself to have.”
Colleen Hoover
Ugly Love
“You did everything you could, but sometimes all the love in the world from mothers and brothers isn’t enough to help pull someone out of their nightmare. We just need to accept that things are what they are, and all the guilt and regret in the world can’t change that.”
Colleen Hoover
Losing Hope
“You did smile, Bridgette, and you need to own it, because it was f*cking beautiful.”
Colleen Hoover
Maybe Not
“You don’t get to decide what your life means to anyone else.”
Colleen Hoover
Without Merit
“You don’t deserve words, Sky. You deserve actions.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“You don’t know what it’s like to give up your entire life for someone.”
Colleen Hoover
Confess
“You either let it consume you and you become who others think you are, or you fight it with everything in you.”
Colleen Hoover
Heart Bones
“You have no idea how many times a day I think about invading your body.”
Colleen Hoover
Never Never
“You just have to choose which wrong choice feels the least wrong.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“You know your life is shit when you’re handwashing baby bottles, praying for Armageddon.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“You reminded me of myself, and what that felt like. The agony that comes along with not being able to take the pain away from the person you love more than yourself.”
Colleen Hoover
Finding Perfect
“You see nothing outside the realm of yourself when you’re a sadistic narcissist.”
Colleen Hoover
Too Late
“You shouldn’t offer cookies without milk, you know. You’re a pretty pathetic hostess.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
“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
Regretting You
“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
Without Merit
“Your focus is no longer on yourself. Your life becomes all about this beautiful tiny little human you created.”
Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
“Your heart is so beautiful and someday someone is going to love that heart like it deserves to be loved.”
Colleen Hoover
Hopeless
“Your writing is going to make you famous. Your mind is incredible. If I could fuck it, I would.”
Colleen Hoover
Verity
“You’re my best friend and I love you. I’m not ashamed to admit that I love a guy. I love you, Holder. Daniel Weasley loves Dean Holder. Always and forever.” “Daniel, go make out with your girlfriend,” he says, waving me off. I shake my head. “Not until you tell me you love me, too.” His head falls back against Sky’s headboard. “I fucking love you, now GO AWAY!” I grin. “I love you more.”
Colleen Hoover
Finding Cinderella
“Youth and beauty fade. Human decency doesn’t.”
Colleen Hoover
November 9
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