Colleen Hoover Quotes

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

I've been in many relationships in my life and learned a lot from them, good and bad.

Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again.

London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

There are people you are madly in love with and thought you could never live without, and suddenly you break up and think, 'What was I thinking?'.

Elektra met Matt, and she fell in love with him. And I think he brought some good out of her at some point in her life, and maybe she wants to figure out, by coming back to him, who she really is. She comes back because she misses him, and she's alone, and the only person she's ever loved is Matt.

When we were writing songs for the Eagles, Don Henley would be involved in some new love relationship, and he was always excited about them. But we were all waiting for the day that they would break up.

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology. But if you have just ended a relationship and would like to believe you are better off without love, read philosophy.

Love inevitably forces one to look at their own life, and that's either a good thing or a bad thing depending on what the person has going on or what they've experienced. The search for love and heartbreak is a fairly university condition and everybody will take away from it something different.

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.

One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time apart', 'serious talk' or 'maybe you...' and you're never going to see them again and will have to spend the next six months having imaginary conversations in which they beg to come back, and bursting into tears at the sight of their toothbrush.

When I want to end a relationship I just say, 'You know, I love you. I want to marry you. I want to have your children.' Sometimes they leave skid marks.

I love you' really is the gateway drug of breaking up.