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“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“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

“People sometimes still drown in the shallow end,”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“I wonder what kind of upbringing is worse for a human. The kind where you’re sheltered and loved to the point that you aren’t aware of how cruel the world can be until it’s too late to acquire the necessary coping skills, or the kind of household I grew up in. The ugliest version of a family, where coping is the only thing you learn.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“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

“If there's nothing inside a heart that can break, why does it feel like mine is going to snap in half when it's time for me to move next month? Does your heart not feel like that?"

Samson's eyes scroll over my face for a moment. "Yeah," he whispers. "It does. Maybe we both grew heart bones.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“There are two different kinds of wrong. The wrong that stems from weakness and the wrong that stems from strength. You made that choice because you were strong and needed to survive. You didn’t make that choice because you were weak.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Samson makes me wonder if there’s a difference between a liar and a person who tells lies to protect someone from the truth.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“There’s nothing left of me but a fucking pile of debris.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Did you go to college, Beyah?' He yells it across the parking lot, like it's the most important question in the world. More important than any other thought that might be going through his head.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“I didn’t fall in love with you… I flew.”
― Colleen Hoover, 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, Ugly Love

“If I were capable of loving someone . . . it would be you.”
― Colleen Hoover, 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, 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, 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, Ugly Love

“No amount of armor in the world and no wall no matter how thick could hide the devastation in his eyes right now.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love