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“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, Ugly Love

“God gives us the ugliness so we don’t take the beautiful things in life for granted.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“When life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them in.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

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

“Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.”
― 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

“It's the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“Some people they grow wiser as they grow older. Unfortunately, most people just grow older.”
― Colleen Hoover, 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, 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, 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, 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, Ugly Love

“Hearts get infiltrated.
Promises get broken.
Rules get shattered.
Love gets ugly.”
― 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

“There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“I'm scared I'll never feel this again with anyone else," I whisper.
He squeezes my hands. "I'm scared you will.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“I love you so much.” His voice is breathless and full of fear. “I’ll love you forever. Even when I can’t.” My tears fall harder at his words. “And I’ll love you forever. Even when I shouldn't.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“I'm afraid if I listen to my heart once, I'll never figure out how to ignore it again.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“It’s amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“I’ll love you forever. Even when I can’t.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“I think love is a hard word to define,” I say to her. “You can love a lot of things about a person but still not love the whole person.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“Please don’t allow anyone to make you feel less than what you are.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“No one deserves you like I do.” …
“No one sees you like I do.” …
“No one understand you the way I do.” …
“No one makes your heart beat like I do.” …
He presses his palm against my heart. “And no one else deserves to be inside you if they can’t get there here first.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“Tell me something about yourself that no one else knows. Something I can keep for myself.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“Sometimes we don’t get second chances, Owen. Sometimes things just end.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“That could be fate, you know.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“Hearts don’t have bones. They can’t actually break.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones