Colleen Hoover Quotes

We're all blemished. Yet we do love and are loved.

but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.

Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn't waiting for me to become someone else.

I believe in love at first sight, and I feel sometimes you have to just be open to whatever love is and let yourself fall.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

You don't fall in love with someone because they're perfect and meet your requirements - you fall for the things that are different about them or even problematic.

There I go being critical again. Does a man have to stand on one foot and juggle for me to consider him entertaining? What am I looking for? A knight?...No, knights are all polished and shiny. I think my taste runs to something with a bit of tarnish and maybe a few scratches. Someone who can make me laugh and cry and make me angry and make my knees tremble when he touches me.

It takes time for people to fall in love with you....but it’s inevitable

There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with. You never know who’s going to come into your life - and for me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person like true north, whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart.

Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.

We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.

If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.

Opening your heart and being courageous and telling people that you care about them or like them or that you think they're special only makes you a better, bigger, kinder, softer, more loving person, and only attracts more love into your life.

I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.

The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

People fall in love with a person, not a gender or an age.

I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.

Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection. I get moved by the wrinkles on the throat of a man. It makes me love him more. I think it is sad that more women don't take the chance that maybe men will be moved by seeing the chin a little less firm than it used to be, that a man will be more in love with his wife because he remembers who she was and sees who she is and thinks, God, isn't that lovely that this happened to her. And be moved by life telling its story there.

I'm open to love, and I think that I will fall in love with a wonderful man.

What did falling in love do for you? Can you ever really explain it? It filled empty spaces I never knew were empty. It cured a loneliness I never knew I had. It gave me joy. And freedom. I think that was the most amazing part. I suddenly felt both embraced and freed at the same time.

The things I can't change are the reasons you'll love me