Colleen Hoover Quotes

You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else.

~ Colleen Hoover

Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.

~ Colleen Hoover

I...will never...regret you.

~ Colleen Hoover

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

This thing about you that you think is your flaw - it's the reason I'm falling in love with you.

~ Colleen Hoover

You can’t leave yet. I’m not finished falling in love with you.

~ Colleen Hoover

If we’re going to kiss, it has to be book-worthy.

~ Colleen Hoover

Does he treat you with respect at all times? That's the first question. The second question is, if he is the exact same person twenty years from now that he is today, would you still want to marry him? And finally, does he inspire to be a better person? You find someone you can answer yes to all three, then you've found a good man.

~ Colleen Hoover

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

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

I think about you every second of every day and I don’t know how to get over you,” she says.“Don’t,” I beg her. “Please don’t get over me.

~ Colleen Hoover

You left with my soul in your fists and my heart in your teeth, and I don’t want either of them back.” ~Ben

~ Colleen Hoover

The fact that Ridge has been honest in his conversations with me is not something he did wrong. The fact that he has feelings for me also isn’t wrong, when you know exactly how much he’s fought those feelings. People can’t control matters of the heart, Warren. They can only control their actions, which is exactly what Ridge did. He lost control once for ten seconds, but after that, every single time temptation reared its ugly head, he walked in the other direction. The only thing Ridge has done wrong is fail to delete his messages, because by doing so, he failed to protect Maggie. He failed to protect her from the harsh truth that people don’t get to choose who they fall in love with. They only get to choose who they stay in love with.” I look up at the ceiling and blink back tears. “He was choosing to stay in love with her, Warren. Why can’t she see that? This will kill him so much more than it’s killing her.

~ Colleen Hoover

Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.

~ Colleen Hoover

Life happens. Shit happens. And it happens a lot. To a lot of people.

~ Colleen Hoover

One of the things I love about books is being able to define and condense certain portions of a character's life into chapters. It's intriguing, because you can't do this with real life. You can't just end a chapter, then skip the things you don't want to live through, only to open it up to a chapter that better suits your mood. Life can't be divided into chapters... only minutes. The events of your life are all crammed together one minute right after the other without any time lapses or blank pages or chapter breaks because no matter what happens life just keeps going and moving forward and words keep flowing and truths keep spewing whether you like it or not and life never lets you pause and just catch your fucking breath.I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.

~ Colleen Hoover

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

I wanted to cry because I needed you there with me so bad. I knew in that moment that I was in love with you. I was in love with the way you loved me. When you wrapped your arms around me and held me, I knew that no matter what happened with my life, you were my home. You stole the biggest piece of my heart that night.

~ Colleen Hoover

Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future.

~ Colleen Hoover

Sometimes life doesn't happen in chronological order.

~ Colleen Hoover

There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love.A first glanceA first smileA first kissA first fall…(I remove the Darth Vader house shoes from my satchel and look down at them.)You were wearing these during one of those moments.One of the moments I first started to fall in love with you.The way you gave me butterflies that morningHad absolutely nothing to do with anyone else,and everything to do with you.I was falling in love with you that morningbecause of you.(I take the next item out of the satchel. When I pull it out and look up, she brings her hands to her mouth in shock.)This ugly little gnomeWith his smug little grin…He's the reason I had an excuse to invite you into my house.Into my life.You took a lot of aggression out on him over those next few months.I would watch from my window as you would kick him over every time you walked by him.Poor little guy.You were so tenacious.That feisty, aggressive, strong-willed side of you….The side of you that refused to take crap from this concrete gnome?The side of you that refused to take crap from me?I fell in love with that side of youbecause of you.(I set the gnome down on the stage and grab the CD)This is your favorite CD‘Layken’s shit.’Although now I know you intended for shit to be possessive, rather than descriptive.The banjo started playing through the speakers of your carand I immediately recognized my favorite band.Then when I realized it was your favorite band, too?The fact that these same lyrics inspired both of us?I fell in love with that about you.That had absolutely nothing to do with anyone else.I fell in love with that about youbecause of you.(I take a slip of paper out of the satchel and hold it up. When I look at her, I see Eddie slide her a napkin. I can’t tell from up here, but that can only mean she’s crying.)This is a receipt I kept.Only because the item I purchased that night was on the verge of ridiculous.Chocolate milk on the rocks? Who orders that?You were different, and you didn’t care.You were being you.A piece of me fell in love with you at that moment,because of you.This? (I hold up another sheet of paper.)This I didn’t really like so much.It’s the poem you wrote about me.The one you titled 'mean?'I don’t think I ever told you…but you made a zero.And then I kept itto remind myself of all the things I never want to be to you.(I pull her shirt from my bag. When I hold it into the light, I sigh into the microphone.)This is that ugly shirt you wear.It doesn’t really have anything to do with why I fell in love with you.I just saw it at your house and thought I’d steal it.

~ Colleen Hoover

You wanted to lick my face the first time you saw me? Is that usually what you do when you’re attracted to guys?” I shake my head. “Not your face, your dimple. And no. You’re the only guy I’ve ever had the urge to lick.” He smiles at me confidently. “Good. Because you’re the only girl I’ve ever had the urge to love.

~ Colleen Hoover

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

~ Colleen Hoover

Sigh?Eye roll

~ Colleen Hoover

Sometimes we don’t get second chances, Owen. Sometimes things just end.”He winces. “We didn’t even get a first chance.

~ Colleen Hoover

and that's where love finds you... in the tragedies.

~ Colleen Hoover

Bitch you.

~ Colleen Hoover

I'm really hoping he’s being genuine because 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. I don’t really want to fall hard for anyone at all, especially someone who’s only making an effort because he thinks I'm easy. I also don’t want to fall for someone who has already branded himself hopeless. But I'm curious. So curious.

~ Colleen Hoover

No, Sky. You didn't tell her everything…you told you everything. Those things happened to you, not to someone else. They happened to Hope. They happened to Sky. They happened to the best friend that I loved all those years ago, and they happened to the best friend I love who’s looking back at me right now.

~ Colleen Hoover

Until then, never lose hope. Never stop loving me. Never forget.
 Never Never

~ Colleen Hoover

I hope you defy the odds of most dreams and actually accomplish yours

~ Colleen Hoover

Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.

~ Colleen Hoover

I’d rather love you at the bottom than despise you at the top.

~ Colleen Hoover

Truths are written, never said... Lines are drawn, but then they fade.

~ Colleen Hoover

Sometimes moving on is the only way to move on.

~ Colleen Hoover

I feel like my maybe someday just became my right now.

~ Colleen Hoover

I don't understand my sudden obsession with staring at her, but i can't seem to stop.

~ Colleen Hoover

His memory is the last place i want to be. I would give anything to always be in his present.

~ Colleen Hoover

People don't get to choose who they fall in love with. The only get to choose who they stay in love with.

~ Colleen Hoover

There can't be a maybe someday between us. There will never be a maybe someday.

~ Colleen Hoover