Heart Bones Quotes

“Hearts don’t have bones. They can’t actually break.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“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.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“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?”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“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.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Damaged people recognize other damaged people.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“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.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Beyah,
My father once told me 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.
If you’re reading this, it means I’ve evaporated.
But it doesn’t mean you should evaporate, too.
Go flood the whole goddamn world, Beyah.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“People sometimes still drown in the shallow end,”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Damaged people recognize other damaged people. It’s like a club you don’t want a membership to.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“I wonder what kind of upbringing is worse for a human. The kind where you’re sheltered and loved to the point that you aren’t aware of how cruel the world can be until it’s too late to acquire the necessary coping skills, or the kind of household I grew up in. The ugliest version of a family, where coping is the only thing you learn.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Home still feels like a mythical place I’ve been searching for my whole life.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“It’s weird how your whole life can completely change in the hours between waking up and going to bed.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Come at me, world. You can’t damage the impermeable.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“I kind of like that Samson is a closed book. You can’t really dislike a book you haven’t read yet.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“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”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Look at us. Two lonely kids who slipped through all the cracks, but then climbed right back up to the top of the world.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Don't worry. Hearts don't have bones. They can't actually break.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Seeing the ocean in person feels almost as important as having food and shelter. It doesn’t seem farfetched to believe a charity should exist for the sole purpose of allowing people to afford a trip to the beach. It should be a basic human right. A necessity. It’s like years of therapy, rolled up into a view.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“I feel like a waterfall around him, just spilling myself and my secrets out all over the floor.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“What fills the holes in a soul?” Samson’s eyes scroll over my face for a few seconds. “Pieces of someone else’s soul.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“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?"

Samson's eyes scroll over my face for a moment. "Yeah," he whispers. "It does. Maybe we both grew heart bones.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“It’s weird, though, isn’t it? Why do people judge other people based on how tightly their skin clings to their bones?”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Not depressing. We’re deep. There’s a difference.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“So the saying is true? Money doesn’t buy happiness?” “When you’re poor, you have things to reach for. Goals that excite you. Maybe it’s a dream house or a vacation or even a meal at a restaurant on a Friday night. But the more money you have, the harder it is to find things to be excited about. You already have your dream house. You can go anywhere in the world anytime you want to. You could hire a private chef to make you every food you ever crave. People who aren’t rich think all those things are fulfilling, but they aren’t. You can fill your life with nice things, but nice things don’t fill the holes in your soul.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“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.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Wet eyes and a dry heart.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“Sometimes I believe personalities are shaped more by damage than kindness.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“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.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“It’s the luck of the draw, I guess. Most kids get the kind of parents that’ll be missed after they die. The rest of us get the kind of parents who make better parents after they’re dead. The nicest thing my mother has ever done for me is die.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones