“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.”
― Ugly Love
― 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.”
― Ugly Love
― Ugly Love
“There's nothing in the world that compares to the feel and smell of brand-new rain.”
― Ugly Love
― Ugly Love
“He just thought quietly, 'So this is love. I see, I was wrong about it too', thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life. [...] 'Perhaps they were right in putting love into books,' he thought quietly. 'Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
― Light in August
― Light in August
“God gives us the ugliness so we don’t take the beautiful things in life for granted.”
― Ugly Love
― Ugly Love
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