“Ugly Love” by Colleen Hoover explores the emotionally charged connection between Tate Collins and Miles Archer.
Tate and Miles begin a no-strings-attached relationship anchored by physical attraction.
They have two strict rules: no inquiries into the past and no expectations for the future.
As their intense bond deepens, the complexities of love and heartache surface, leading to desire, pain, and the struggle for forgiveness.
Ugly Love Quotes With Page Numbers
“She’s like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, Character: Miles Archer, Chapter 2, Page 19
“I send the picture in a message to Ian that says, “She’s gonna have all my babies.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, Character: Miles Archer, Chapter 2, Page 21
“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, Character: Tate Collins as the narrator, Chapter 7, Page 59
“The smaller the house, the more a family is forced to love one another.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, The Narrator, Chapter 8, Page 65
“He laughs with relief. “Yes.” The word yes is so much more beautiful coming from his mouth, laced with that voice. He could probably make any word beautiful. I try to think of a word I hate. I kind of hate the word ox. It’s an ugly word. Too short and clipped. I wonder if his voice could make me love that word. “Say the word ox.” His eyebrow rises, like he’s wondering if he heard me right. He thinks I’m weird. I don’t care. “Just say it,” I tell him. “Ox,” he says, with slight hesitation. I smile. I love the word ox. It’s my new favorite word.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, Character: Miles Archer and Tate Collins, Chapter 9, Page 82
“You make it so hard to breathe.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, Character: Miles Archer, Chapter 9, Page 86
“Don’t ask about my past. And never expect a future.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, Character: Miles Archer, Chapter 9, Page 88
“Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, Character: Tate Collins as the narrator, Chapter: 11, Page 96
“God gives us the ugliness so we don’t take the beautiful things in life for granted.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, Miles Archer, Chapter 16, Page 142
“There’s nothing in the world that compares to the feel and smell of brand-new rain.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, Character: Tate Collins, Chapter 17, Page 154
“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, Miles Archer, Chapter 17, Page 165
“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.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, Character: Miles Archer, Chapter 17, Page 165
“I suppose if a man lived through the ugliest side of love, he might never want to experience it again.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, Character: Cap, Chapter 35, Page 226
“When life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them in.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, Character: Cap, Chapter 27, Page 234
“If you love me more today than you loved me yesterday, then I can’t wait for tomorrow,” she says.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, Character: Rachael, Chapter 28, Page 247
“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, Character: Tate Collins as the Narrator, Chapter 29, Page 252
“If I were capable of loving someone . . . it would be you.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, Character: Miles Archer, Chapter 29, Page 254
“The ugly parts of love can’t lift you up.
They bring you
D
O
W
N.
They hold you under.
Drown you.
You look up and think, I wish I was up there.
But you’re not.
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 this.
You’ll never risk feeling the ugly.
So you 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.
I’ll never let myself love anyone again, Rachel.
Ever.”~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, Character: Miles Archer, Chapter 34, Pages 281-82
“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, Character: Miles Archer: Chapter 34, Page 282
“You deserve so much more than what you’re allowing yourself to have.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, Character: Miles Archer, Chapter 36, Page 287
“Some people…they grow wiser as they grow older. Unfortunately, most people just grow older.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, Chapter 36, Character: Cap, Page 291
“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.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, Character: Cap, Chapter 36, Page 293
“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.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, Character: Tate Collins as the Narrator, Chapter 38, Page 308
“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, Character: Miles Archer, Chapter 39, Page 309
“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, Character: Tate Collins, Chapter 39, Page 309
“I didn’t fall in love with you… I flew.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, Character: Tate Collins, Chapter 38, Page 309
“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, The Narrator, Chapter 39, Page 311
“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, The Narrator, Chapter 39, Page 318
“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, The Narrator, Epilogue, Page 322
“It’s the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love.”
~Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love, The Narrator, Epilogue, Page 322
