50 Quotes From Ugly Love By Colleen Hoover That Will Help You Embrace The Complexity of Love

Last Updated on January 30, 2023

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I really hope you’re having an awesome day.

Have you heard of the book Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover? It’s a heart-wrenching romance novel that tells the story of a young woman named Tate who falls in love with her brother’s best friend, Miles.

The catch? Miles is determined to keep their relationship purely physical, and Tate can’t seem to shake her feelings for him.

The theme of this book is the complex nature of love and how it can be both beautiful and ugly at the same time.

As the characters navigate through the ups and downs of their relationship, they learn valuable lessons about themselves and the true meaning of love.

Colleen Hoover is an amazing author, she really knows how to tug at your heartstrings and make you feel all the emotions while reading the book. This is one of those books that will have you laughing, crying, and feeling everything in between.

In this post, we’re going to be sharing some of our favorite quotes from Colleen’s Ugly Love. These quotes perfectly capture the themes and emotions of the book, and we think they’ll resonate with you too.

So, if you’re looking for a good book to read or if you just need some inspiration, keep reading!

Best Quotes From Ugly Love By Colleen Hoover

1. “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, Colleen Hoover

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

3. “Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

4. “Every time I’m with him, he fills my heart up more and more, and the more it’s filled with pieces of him, the more painful it’ll be when he rips it out of my chest as though it never belonged there in the first place”

– Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

5. “I think that’s why I find him hard to look away from, though, because I’ve always found guys more attractive when they put less effort into trying to appear attractive.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

6. “Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

7. “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.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

8. “Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

9. “His lips against mine feel like everything. Like living and dying and being reborn, all at the same time.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

10. “It’s the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

11. “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.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

12. “I suppose if a man lived through the ugliest side of love, he might never want to experience it again.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

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

14. “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, Colleen Hoover

15. “You’re incredibly brave. And you’re going to make it through this because you have a very strong heart. A heart that is capable of loving so much about life and people in a way you never dreamt a heart could love. And you’re beautiful in here. Your heart is so beautiful and someday someone is going to love that heart like it deserves to be loved.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

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

17. “I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren’t you. They are just things that happen to you. You need to accept that who you are and the things that happen you, are not one and the same.”

– Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

18. “Imperfections define perfection.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

19. “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.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

20. “I wish I were in high school again so I could call him a butthole. Adults don’t call their brothers buttholes, though.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

21. “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.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

22. “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, Colleen Hoover

23. “What rules?” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

“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.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

24. “Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

25. “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.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

26. “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.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

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27. “I suppose if a man lived through the ugliest side of love, he might never want to experience it again.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

28. “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.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

29. “There’s nothing in the world that compares to the feel and smell of brand-new rain.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

30. “The smaller the house, the more a family is forced to love one another.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

31. “If being with Tate for a few short months can make that pain bearable enough for you to answer with maybe, imagine what a lifetime with her could do for you.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

32. “Please don’t allow anyone to make you feel less than what you are.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

33. “We try so hard to hide everything we’re really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it’s somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

34. “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.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

35. “I’m sorry it took me so long,” he says with a voice full of remorse. “But I’ll never be able to thank you enough for not giving up on me. You saw something in me that gave you hope in us, and you didn’t give up on that. And Tate? That means more to me than anything anyone’s ever done.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

36. “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.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

37. “Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

38. “It’s the beautiful moments like these that make up for the ugly love.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

39. “It’s funny how he refuses to make eye contact during s*x yet can’t seem to keep his eyes off me the rest of the time.”

– Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

40. “If being with Tate for a few short months can make that pain bearable enough for you to answer with maybe, imagine what a lifetime with her could do for you.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

41. “Don’t take life too seriously Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit Laugh at it” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

42. “It’s funny how that works. 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 from your very first one.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

43. “I wish I were in high school again so I could call him a butthole. Adults don’t call their brothers buttholes, though.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

44. “Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

45. “My grandfather used to say the placement of a birthmark was the story of how a person lost the battle in their past life. I guess you got stabbed in the neck. Bet it was a quick death, though.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

46. “He’s smiling, and I didn’t realize how much I missed seeing that smile. He should smile all the time. Forever. At me.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

47. “So 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.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

48. “What’s the difference?” I lower my mouth to hers once more. “You,” I whisper. “I like kissing you.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

49. “It won’t be a quick break, either. It’ll be slow and painful, filled with so many moments like these that tear me up from the inside out” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

50. “Sometimes it’s easy to forget how much you miss people until you see them again.” – Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover

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