Ugly Love (Hoover)/Chapter 35

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Colleen Hoover

Ugly Love. Chapter 35

A final goodbye at Miles’s door

2014

Summary of a Chapter
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Microsummary

As Corbin helped her move, Tate knocked on Miles’s door to say goodbye after a week without contact. Ian fetched him, but Miles’s stoic expression and brief farewell left her regretting the visit.

Chapter Summary

Corbin took the last boxes and the key to Tate’s new place. She stayed behind to check his apartment before leaving and looked at Miles’s door across the hall.

Tate had not seen or spoken to Miles for a week. She had hoped for an apology but admitted he had never lied or broken a spoken promise. She wondered whether she had imagined his feelings for her.

After locking Corbin’s apartment, Tate knocked on Miles’s door. Ian answered sympathetically and went to get him. She searched Ian’s voice and Miles’s approaching footsteps for clues to his reaction but found none.

Tate told Miles she was leaving and wanted to say goodbye. He showed no immediate reaction. When she looked up, his expression was stoic. His brief reply, “Good-bye, Tate,” left her regretting that she had knocked.

Characters

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Tate — narrator, young woman moving from Corbin’s apartment into her own place, emotionally attached to Miles and uncertain whether he returned her feelings, vulnerable and attentive to possible signs of affection.

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Miles — young man living across the hall from Corbin, the object of Tate’s romantic feelings, outwardly stoic and restrained when she comes to say goodbye.

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Ian — adult man familiar with Miles, present in his apartment, sympathetic toward Tate when he answers the door and fetches Miles for her.

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Corbin — adult man whose apartment Tate was staying in, practically supportive as he carries her remaining boxes and takes the key to her new place.

Quotes

I’ve been selfishly hoping he would show up and apologize, but then again, what would he even be apologizing for? He never lied to me. He never verbalized promises that he broke.

The only times he wasn’t brutally honest with me were the times he didn’t speak. The times he looked at me and I assumed the feelings I saw in his eyes were more than what he was able to verbalize.

My eyes finally make the brave journey up to his. When I see the stoic look on his face, I want to step back, but I’m afraid I’ll trip over my heart.
I don’t want him to watch me fall.

This summary is based on the UK edition of the novel (London: Simon & Schuster UK, 2014).