It Ends With Us Famous Quotes
"All humans make mistakes. What determines a person's character aren't the mistakes we make. It's how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us)
"It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us)
"Naked truths aren’t always pretty."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us)
"Our eyes, locked together, speak more naked truths than our mouths ever have."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us)
"There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us)
"Sometimes even grown women need their mother’s comfort so we can just take a break from having to be strong all the time."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us)
"Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us )
"Cycles exist because they are excruciating to break. It takes an astronomical amount of pain and courage to disrupt a familiar pattern. Sometimes it seems easier to just keep running in the same familiar circles, rather than facing the fear of jumping and possibly not landing on your feet. "
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us )
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Love Quotes From It Ends With Us
"Just because someone hurts you doesn't mean you can simply stop loving them.."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us)
"Maybe love isn’t something that comes full circle. It just ebbs and flows, in and out, just like the people in our lives"
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us)
"I’m sorry about that. I’m sure you didn’t miss me like I missed you, but sometimes the things that matter to you most are also the things that hurt you the most. And in order to get over that hurt, you have to sever all the extensions that keep you tethered to that pain. You were an extension of my pain, so I guess that’s what I was doing. I was just trying to save myself a little bit of agony."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us )
"Preventing your heart from forgiving someone you love is actually a hell of a lot harder than simply forgiving them."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us)
"In the future... if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again... fall in love with me.” He presses his lips against my forehead. “You’re still my favorite person, Lily. Always will be."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us)
It Ends With Us Best Quotes
"Just because we didn’t end up on the same wave, doesn’t mean we aren’t still a part of the same ocean."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us)
"No one is exclusively bad, nor is anyone exclusively good. Some are just forced to work harder at suppressing the bad."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us)
"I hope you defy the odds of most dreams and actually accomplish yours."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us)
"You are my wife. I’m supposed to be the one who protects you from the monsters. I’m not supposed to be one."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us)
"I think that’s one of the biggest signs a person has matured—knowing how to appreciate things that matter to others, even if they don’t matter very much to you."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us )
"Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and make more of an impact than others. Sometimes the waves bring with them things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they leave those things tossed onto the shore. Imprints against the grains of sand that prove the waves had once been there, long after the tide recedes. That was what Atlas was telling me when he said “I love you.” He was letting me know that I was the biggest wave he’d ever come across. And I brought so much with me that my impressions would always be there, even when the tide rolled out."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us)
Atlas Corrigan quotes
"A happy Atlas was near mind-blowing. It made me want to uncover every single thing about this world that he likes and give it all to him."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us )
"I’m exactly where I belong, being loved by Atlas Corrigan."
— Colleen Hoover (It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2))
"Lily, Atlas says just keep swimming. —Ellen DeGeneres"
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us )
"Atlas kept swimming, and look at him now. He swam all the way to the fucking Caribbean."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us)
"Yes. I kept the magnet Atlas gave me when we were kids. Yes. I kept the journals. No, I didn’t tell you about my tattoo. Yes, I probably should have. And yes, I still love him. And I’ll love him until I die, because he was a huge part of my life. And yes, I’m sure that hurts you. But none of that gave you the right to do what you did to me. Even if you would have walked into my bedroom and caught us in bed together, you still would not have the right to lay a hand on me, you goddamn son of a bitch!"
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us )
Colleen Hoover Quotes It Ends With Us
"You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us)
"Fifteen seconds. That’s all it takes to completely change everything about a person. Fifteen."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us )
"I’ll keep pretending to swim, when really all I’m doing is floating. Barely keeping my head above water."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us )
"I feel like everyone fakes who they really are, when deep down we're all equal amounts of screwed up. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us )
"And as hard as this choice is, we break the pattern before the pattern breaks us."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us )
"We all have a limit. What we’re willing to put up with before we break. When I married your father, I knew exactly what my limit was. But slowly . . . with every incident . . . my limit was pushed a little more. And a little more. The first time your father hit me, he was immediately sorry. He swore it would never happen again. The second time he hit me, he was even more sorry. The third time it happened, it was more than a hit. It was a beating. And every single time, I took him back. But the fourth time, it was only a slap. And when that happened, I felt relieved. I remember thinking, ‘At least he didn’t beat me this time. This wasn’t so bad."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us)
"You’re only human. And as humans, we can’t expect to shoulder all of our pain. Sometimes we have to share it with the people who love us so we don’t come crashing down from the weight of it all"
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us )
It Ends With Us Ryle Quotes
"It’s easy when we’re on the outside to believe that we would walk away without a second thought if a person mistreated us. It’s easy to say we couldn’t continue to love someone who mistreats us when we aren’t the ones feeling the love of that person. When you experience it firsthand, it isn’t so easy to hate the person who mistreats you when most of the time they’re your godsend. Ryle"
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends With Us)
It Ends With Us Quotes About Flowers
"What are some words that come to mind when you think of flowers?"
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us )
"I absolutely love gardening. I love flowers. Plants. Growing things. It’s my passion."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends With Us)
"Plants reward you based on the amount of love you show them. If you're cruel to them or neglect them, they give you nothing. But if you care for them and love them the right way, they reward you with gifts in the form of vegetables or fruits or flowers."
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us)
It Ends With Us Quote About Abuse
"Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?"
— Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us )