The Best Ugly Love Quotes

“It’s the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love”

– UGLY LOVE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“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 BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“The difference between the ugly side of love and the beautiful side of love is that the beautiful side is much lighter. It makes you feel like you’re floating. It lifts you up. Carries you.”

– UGLY LOVE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“God gives us the ugliness so we don’t take the beautiful things in life for granted.”

– UGLY LOVE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“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 BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“I didn’t fall in love with you… I flew.”

– UGLY LOVE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

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

– UGLY LOVE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“If I were capable of loving someone . . . it would be you.”

– UGLY LOVE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“If you love me more today than you loved me yesterday, then I can’t wait for tomorrow,” she says.”

– UGLY LOVE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“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 BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“When you kiss, you can close your eyes. You can kiss away the thoughts. You can kiss away the pain, the doubt, the shame. When you close your eyes and kiss, you protect yourself from the vulnerability.”

– UGLY LOVE BY 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 f-ing break your damn heart.”

– UGLY LOVE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

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

– UGLY LOVE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“The smaller the house, the more a family is forced to love one another.”

– UGLY LOVE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“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 BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“You make it so hard to breathe.”

– UGLY LOVE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

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

– UGLY LOVE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“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.”

– UGLY LOVE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“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 BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“I send the picture in a message to Ian that says, “She’s gonna have all my babies.”

– UGLY LOVE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“She’s like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page.”

– UGLY LOVE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“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 BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“There were moments I didn’t care if I ever hurt again, because being with you almost felt worth the potential pain.”

– UGLY LOVE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“It’s love in general I don’t want, Tate. Ever. It’s you specifically that I just…want.”

– UGLY LOVE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

“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 BY COLLEEN HOOVER