Colleen Hoover > Quotes

“and that's where love finds you... in the tragedies.”
― Colleen Hoover, Too Late

“Yes. I kept the magnet Atlas gave me when we were kids. Yes. I kept the journals. No, I didn’t tell you about my tattoo. Yes, I probably should have. And yes, I still love him. And I’ll love him until I die, because he was a huge part of my life. And yes, I’m sure that hurts you. But none of that gave you the right to do what you did to me. Even if you would have walked into my bedroom and caught us in bed together, you still would not have the right to lay a hand on me, you goddamn son of a bitch!”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“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, Hopeless

“If there are two people in this world capable of finding a way to love each other, it’s us.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“That’s what fifteen minutes can do to a person. It can destroy them. It can save them.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“She's my person, and I am hers, and that's something I've known since the first week we met.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I need you . . . to hear this,” he says, cradling my head in his hands. “I . . . will never . . . regret you.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“What you want to do tonight?

I read Daniel's text and respond.

Sorry. Plans.

WTF, puss flap!? No! Me. You. Plans.

Can't. Pretty sure I have a date.

Sky?

Yep.

Can I come?

Nope.

Can I be your date next Saturday, then?

Sure, babe.

Can't wait, sugar.”
― Colleen Hoover, Losing Hope

“I love how you aren't weird and awkward, despite the fact that you've been severely cut off from socialization to the point where you make the Amish look trendy.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“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

“Fucking beautiful,” I whisper.
She smiles and then ducks her head. “I feel stupid.”
“I barely know you, so I’m not about to argue with you over your level of intelligence, because you could very well be as dumb as a rock. But at least you’re pretty.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“Me: Why don't you ever practice on your balcony like you used to? This question gets me immediate eye contact from him, but it doesn't last. His eyes flicker across my face, down my body, and finally back to his phone.
Ridge: Why would I? You're not out there anymore.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“You can fill your life with nice things, but nice things don’t fill the holes in your soul.”
“What fills the holes in a soul?”
Samson’s eyes scroll over my face for a few seconds. “Pieces of someone else’s soul.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“I held this girl in my arms
She wrapped her tiny fingers around mine.
It was then that I realized.
She was the fusion.
The glue.
The cement that bound all my pieces together.
The piece that seals my puzzle.
The piece that completes my life.
The element that makes me who I am.
Who I was.
Who I'll one day be.
You, baby girl.
You're my final piece.”
― Colleen Hoover, This Girl

“I promise to love you more when you hate me than when you love me.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

“I'm gonna go live my life now, Les. A life I'm actually able to look forward to, and I'd honestly thought I'd never be able to say that. Then again, I'd honestly thought I'd always be hopeless, but I find hope every single day.”
― Colleen Hoover, Losing Hope

“I got so schooled this year.
By a nine year old.
He taught me that it's okay to live life
a little backwards.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“Beyah,
My father once told me 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.
If you’re reading this, it means I’ve evaporated.
But it doesn’t mean you should evaporate, too.
Go flood the whole goddamn world, Beyah.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Confrontation leads to action. Avoidance leads to inaction.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

“I'm shaking my head, unable to get it through my mind that this girl is willingly mine and she's perfect and beautiful and good and, holy shit, I love her so much.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“You don’t get to decide what your life means to anyone else.”
― Colleen Hoover, Without Merit

“I continue to exist, and he continues to exist,but we don’t exist together.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“I want to tell you exactly how I feel but there isn't a single goddamned word in the entire dictionary that can describe this point between liking you and loving you, but I need that word. I need it because I need you to hear me say it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“You have a nice mouth," he says. "I can't stop looking at it."

"You should taste it. It's quite lovely.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“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

“But anyone who sees your scars before they see you doesn’t deserve you.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“I'm telling you to marry me Lake....because I can't live without you.”
― Colleen Hoover, Point of Retreat

“Youth and beauty fade. Human decency doesn’t.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“A good person who had one bad night. It happens to the best of us. The worst of us. All of us. Some of us are just luckier than others, and our bad moments have fewer casualties.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“Until then, never lose hope. Never stop loving me. Never forget. Never Never,”
― Colleen Hoover, Never Never: Part Two