Ugly Love

by Colleen Hoover

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

“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.”

So as much as I try to protect my heart from him, it’s pointless. He’s going to break it eventually, yet I continue to allow him to fill it. 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.

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.

The pain will always be there. So will the fear. But the pain and fear are no longer my life. They’re only moments.

It’s the beautiful moments like these that make up for the ugly love.