“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, quote from Ugly Love
“God gives us the ugliness so we don’t take the beautiful things in life for granted.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“When life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them in.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“I didn’t fall in love with you… I flew.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“Ugly love becomes you. Consumes you. Makes you hate it all. Makes you realize that all the beautiful parts aren't even worth it. Without the beautiful, you'll never risk feeling the ugly. So you give it all up. You give it all up. You never want love again, no matter what kind it is, because no type of love will ever be worth living through the ugly love again.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“It's the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“Some people they grow wiser as they grow older. Unfortunately, most people just grow older.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“That’s how it is when a person develops an attraction toward someone. He’s nowhere, then suddenly he’s everywhere, whether you want him to be or not.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“What rules?”
“Well, for one, I’m not allowed to break your heart,” he says. “Second, I’m also not allowed to break your damn heart. And last, I’m not allowed to fucking break your damn heart.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“The pain will always be there.
So will the fear.
But the pain and fear are no longer my life. They're only moments.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“But the second she opened her eyes and looked at me, I knew. She was either going to be the death of me . . . or she was going to be the one who finally brought me back to life.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“Hearts get infiltrated.
Promises get broken.
Rules get shattered.
Love gets ugly.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“You're looking at me like you fell in love with me."
"I didn't fall in love with you. I flew.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“The smaller the house, the more a family is forced to love one another.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“I know the thought of confronting your past terrifies you.It terrifies every man. But sometimes we don't do it ourselves. We do it for the people we love more than ourselves.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“You make it so hard to breathe.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“Whoever coined the phrase, I love you to death obviously never experienced the kind of love Tate and I share. If that were the case, the phrase would be I love you to life. Because that’s exactly what Tate did. She loved me back to life.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“Love isn’t always pretty, Tate. 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, quote from Ugly Love
“If I were capable of loving someone . . . it would be you.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“I suppose if a man lived through the ugliest side of love, he might never want to experience it again.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“The ugly parts of love can’t lift you up.
They bring you
D
O
W
N.
They hold you under.
Drown you.
You look up and think, I wish I was up there.
But you’re not.
Ugly love becomes you.
Consumes you.
Makes you hate it all.
Makes you realize that all the beautiful parts aren’t even worth it. Without the beautiful, you’ll never risk feeling this.
You’ll never risk feeling the ugly.
So you give it up. You give it all up. You never want love again, no matter what kind it is, because no type of love will ever be worth living through the ugly love again.
I’ll never let myself love anyone again, Rachel.
Ever.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“I’m terrified to lose him for good, so I sell myself short and take what I can from him, even though I know I deserve better.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“Listen, Tate. I want your mess. I want your clothes on my bedroom floor. I want your toothbrush in my bathroom. I want your shoes in my closet. I want your mediocre leftovers in my fridge.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“It may be a small piece at a time, but my past is yours now. All of it. Anything you want to know, I want to tell you. But only if you promise me I can also have your future.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“There's nothing in the world that compares to the feel and smell of brand-new rain.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“He’s everywhere.
Everything is Miles.
That’s how it is when a person develops an attraction toward someone. He’s nowhere, then suddenly he’s everywhere, whether you want him to be or not.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying, I don't know how to speak to you. I don't know what you're thinking. Talk to me. Tell me everything you've ever said. All the words. Starting form the very first one.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“He laughs with relief. “Yes.” The word yes is so much more beautiful coming from his mouth, laced with that voice. He could probably make any word beautiful. I try to think of a word I hate. I kind of hate the word ox. It’s an ugly word. Too short and clipped. I wonder if his voice could make me love that word. “Say the word ox.” His eyebrow rises, like he’s wondering if he heard me right. He thinks I’m weird. I don’t care. “Just say it,” I tell him. “Ox,” he says, with slight hesitation. I smile. I love the word ox. It’s my new favorite word.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“I send the picture in a message to Ian that says, "She's gonna have all my babies.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
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“Everyone says apologizing works, but it never really does. Not quickly enough anyway.”
― Sara Barnard, quote from Beautiful Broken Things
“When the feelings would come, the emotions, the grief, I would push them down deeper, furious at myself for allowing them to peek through. My inner dialogue could be ruthless: You're fine. You're not starving, no one beats you. Your parents are still alive. There is real sadness in the world and yours is pathetic, you whiny, insignificant cow.”
― Caitlin Doughty, quote from Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
“Riddle me this: I belong to no one, yet am used by everyone. To some, I am money, to others I can fly. I make up space, yet don’t take it up. To those who never change, I hold no sway. But to those who do, I carry the weight of desert sands. What am I?”
― A.G. Howard, quote from Untamed
“One always got the same shock of recognition and delight when someone's words swam up to meet a thought or name a picture.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from Nine Coaches Waiting
“I measure my success in life by the added value my presence brought to those whom I loved, and who loved me.”
― R.A. Salvatore, quote from Road of the Patriarch
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