Colleen Hoover quotes

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

#Needs #Want #Remember

Love isn't always pretty. 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

#Love #Heart #Squares

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

#Spiritual #Men #Years

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

#People #Feelings #Trying

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

#Judging #Mind #Events

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

#Girl #Mean #Blue

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

#Falling In Love #People #Wonder

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

#Life #Laughing #Needs

Always remember there is nothing worth sharing, like the love that let us share our name.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Names #Remember #Share

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

#Pain #Grief #Two

Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Bad Day #Order #Perspective

You're incredibly brave. And you're going to make it through this because you have a very strong heart. A heart that is capable of loving so much about life and people in a way you never dreamt a heart could love. And you're beautiful in here. Your heart is so beautiful and someday someone is going to love that heart like it deserves to be loved.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Beautiful #Strong #Heart

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

#Beautiful #Love Is #World

If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Live Life #Scared #Given

Imperfections define perfection
-- Colleen Hoover

#Perfection #Imperfection

Choose your battles, but don't choose very many.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Battle

If you aren't on Goodreads, you should be. I've said it before, it's like Facebook for readers on crack.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Cracks #Should #Said

You don't deserve words, Sky. You deserve actions.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Sky #Action #Deserve

Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Real #Ugly #Sometimes

I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Life #Ideas #Needs

It's the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love
-- Colleen Hoover

#Beautiful #Inspiring Love #Ugly

I got schooled this year by a boy. A boy that I'm seriously, deeply, madly, incredibly, and undeniably in love with. And he taught me the most important thing of all... To put the emphasis On life.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Love #Boys #Years

How your heart can possibly find a way to love and trust a man again proves that I've fallen in love with the bravest woman I've ever known. I know how much courage it took for you to allow me in after what your father did to you. And I swear I will spend every last breath thanking you for allowing yourself to love me. Thank you so much for loving me, Linden Sky Hope.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Love #Father #Heart

I want to be your soulmate, even if I don't believe in them.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Soulmate #Believe #Want

Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together
-- Colleen Hoover

#Fall #Two #People

I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Teacher #Care #Firsts

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

#Love #Reflection #Soul

You just have to choose which wrong choice feels the least wrong.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Choices #Feels

Push your boundaries, that's what they're there for.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Boundaries

I'm Tetris, Silas. All my pieces and parts are going to fit into all of your pieces and parts.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Love #Pieces #Tetris

Whatever connection we thought we had before this...it doesn't compare to this moment. No matter what happens between us in life, this moment has just merged pieces of our souls together. Well always have that, and in a way it's comforting to know.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Soul #Comforting #Together

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

#Beautiful #Dark #Sky

If words could break souls, my words just broke his in two.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Two #Soul #Broke

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Lying #Weight #Towns

When you aren't sure what it is you hate or why you even hate it, it's hard to hold onto the details...you just hold on to the feelings.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Hate #Feelings #Details

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 afters.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Real #Book #Land

Find a balance between head and heart.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Heart #Balance #Head And Heart

All marriages have a time limit if you enter them for the wrong reasons. Marriage doesn't get easier...it only gets harder. If you marry someone hoping it will improve things, you might as well set your timer the second you say, 'I do.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Might #Limits #Reason

Understanding a situation doesn't always make it easier
-- Colleen Hoover

#Understanding #Easier #Situation

I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Ocean #Brave #Watches

Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't know how to process.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Hate #Passion #Opposites

Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Heart #Broken #Promise

When life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them in.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Eye #Giving #Needs

Laugh a lot. Never go a day without laughing at least once.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Laughing

I’m the only one that can be held accountable for the way my life turns out.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Way #Turns

Absolutely. 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. I questioned a lot about my relationship with your father. People make spontaneous decisions based off of their hearts all the time. There's so much more to relationships than just love.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Regret #Father #Heart

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

#Common #Inevitable

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Love You #Passion #Answers

It's not just lies they're referring to. It's life. You can't run to another town, another place, another state. Whatever it is you're running from-it goes with you. It stays with you until you find out how to confront it.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Running #Lying #Towns

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

#Choices #Sometimes #Bunch

Keep an open mind; it's the only way new things can get in.
-- Colleen Hoover

#Mind #Way #Open Mind