“Hearts don’t have bones. They can’t actually break.”
-Heart Bones quotes by Colleen Hoover
“Sometimes I believe personalities are shaped more by damage than kindness. Kindness doesn’t sink as deep into your skin as the damage does. The damage stains your soul so bad, you can’t scrub it off. It stays there forever, and I feel like people can see all my damage just by looking at me.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“You can fill your life with nice things, but nice things don’t fill the holes in your soul.”
“What fills the holes in a soul?”
Samson’s eyes scroll over my face for a few seconds. “Pieces of someone else’s soul.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“Love is a lot like water.
It can be calm. Raging. Threatening. Soothing.
Water will be many things, but even in all its forms, it will always be water.
You are my water.
I think I might be yours, too.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“Home still feels like a mythical place I’ve been searching for my whole life.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“It’s weird how your whole life can completely change in the hours between waking up and going to bed.”
-Heart Bones quotes by Colleen Hoover
“Come at me, world. You can’t damage the impermeable.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“Maybe we did grow heart bones. But what if the only way of knowing you grew a heart bone is by feeling the agony caused by the break?”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“I think when you’re the worst of people, finding the worst in others becomes a survival tactic of sorts. You focus heavily on the darkness in people in hopes of masking the true shade of your own darkness.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“I feel like a waterfall around him, just spilling myself and my secrets out all over the floor.”
-Heart Bones quotes by Colleen Hoover
“Damaged people recognize other damaged people.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“Not depressing. We’re deep. There’s a difference.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“It’s weird, though, isn’t it? Why do people judge other people based on how tightly their skin clings to their bones?”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“There are two different kinds of wrong. The wrong that stems from weakness and the wrong that stems from strength. You made that choice because you were strong and needed to survive. You didn’t make that choice because you were weak.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“Wet eyes and a dry heart.”
-Heart Bones quotes by Colleen Hoover
“Sometimes I believe personalities are shaped more by damage than kindness.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“If I have to pretend my way through this entire year, it’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to smile so much that my fake smile eventually becomes real.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“I know what love is, because I spent my whole life knowing what it isn’t.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“Kindness doesn’t sink as deep into your skin as the damage does. The damage stains your soul so bad, you can’t scrub it off.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“Samson makes me wonder if there’s a difference between a liar and a person who tells lies to protect someone from the truth.”
-Heart Bones quotes by Colleen Hoover
“Holding everything in accomplishes nothing. It just causes the truth to hurt even worse in the end.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“Sometimes things are so pretty, it makes everything else a little less impressive.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“I hear people talk about good men, but I’m starting to think that’s a myth.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“The sky is swirled with so many colors, it’s as if the earth has written a poem using clouds, communicating her appreciation to those of us who take care of her.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“Maybe you don’t have to know a person’s history to realize who they are in the present.”
-Heart Bones quotes by Colleen Hoover
“Because most of the time, the fun you have that leads to the pain is worth the pain.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“I don’t come across people who hoard secrets like I do. Most people want a listener. Someone they can spill everything to.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“He’s a vault and I really wish I had a key.
Or some explosives.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“Shallow people don’t stare at the ocean as deeply as you do.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“The nicest thing my mother has ever done for me is die.”
-Heart Bones quotes by Colleen Hoover
“Your own father doesn’t know you received a scholarship?” “Nope.” “Why haven’t you told him?” “Because it would make him feel like he did something right. And I had to work for the scholarship because he did everything wrong.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“I’ve been awake for ten seconds and I’ve already thought of him twice.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“There’s a sadness in him and a little bit of it seeps out. I don’t like it because apparently sadness is what I connect with. I feel like he’s tugging at my soul with that look.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“There’s no way I can be around him all summer and not want to be consumed by him.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“I feel my heart bone heal completely.”
-Heart Bones quotes by Colleen Hoover
“I just wish our fall and winter fit as well as our summer.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“I try not to think about our impending goodbye, but it’s hard to experience something that feels this perfect without being acutely aware it’s about to be taken away.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“Sometimes I wonder if I even want all the answers to my questions.”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
“If there’s nothing inside a heart that can break, why does it feel like mine is going to snap in half when it’s time for me to move next month? Does your heart not feel like that?”
-Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover
