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It Ends with Us

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In "It Ends with Us," Lily Bloom, a determined young woman, has overcome challenges to build the life she desires. When she meets the charming and successful neurosurgeon, Ryle Kincaid, her world feels perfect. However, Ryle's reluctance to commit raises concerns, especially when Lily's first love, Atlas Corrigan, resurfaces. As Lily navigates her new relationship, she must confront the abusive patterns she witnessed in her parents' history. This emotionally charged novel delves into the complexities of love, resilience, and the difficult choices one must make to protect oneself. The book's film adaptation remains open to potential changes.

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    Famous quotes from It Ends with Us

    1. "There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things."
    2. -Colleen Hoover
    3. "It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us."
    4. -Colleen Hoover
    5. "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."
    6. -Colleen Hoover
    7. "He pulls back to look down at me and when he sees my tears, he brings his hands up to my cheeks. 'In the future... if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again... fall in love with me.'"
    8. -Colleen Hoover
    9. "Just because someone hurts you doesn't mean you can simply stop loving them. It's not a person's actions that hurt the most. It's the love. If there was no love attached to the action, the pain would be a little easier to bear."
    10. -Colleen Hoover
    11. "You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore."
    12. -Colleen Hoover
    13. "Just because we didn’t end up on the same wave, doesn’t mean we aren’t still a part of the same ocean."
    14. -Colleen Hoover
    15. "Fifteen seconds. That’s all it takes to completely change everything about a person. Fifteen."
    16. -Colleen Hoover
    17. "Naked truths aren’t always pretty."
    18. -Colleen Hoover
    19. "And as hard as this choice is, we break the pattern before the pattern breaks us."
    20. -Colleen Hoover
    21. "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."
    22. -Colleen Hoover
    23. "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."
    24. -Colleen Hoover
    25. "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."
    26. -Colleen Hoover
    27. "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."
    28. -Colleen Hoover
    29. "I’ll keep pretending to swim, when really all I’m doing is floating. Barely keeping my head above water."
    30. -Colleen Hoover
    31. "No one is exclusively bad, nor is anyone exclusively good. Some are just forced to work harder at suppressing the bad."
    32. -Colleen Hoover
    33. "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."
    34. -Colleen Hoover
    35. "Preventing your heart from forgiving someone you love is actually a hell of a lot harder than simply forgiving them."
    36. -Colleen Hoover
    37. "I love it when the night sky makes me feel insignificant."
    38. -Colleen Hoover
    39. "I hope you defy the odds of most dreams and actually accomplish yours."
    40. -Colleen Hoover
    41. "You are my wife. I’m supposed to be the one who protects you from the monsters. I’m not supposed to be one."
    42. -Colleen Hoover
    43. "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."
    44. -Colleen Hoover
    45. "Sometimes even grown women need their mother’s comfort so we can just take a break from having to be strong all the time."
    46. -Colleen Hoover
    47. "Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?"
    48. -Colleen Hoover
    49. "Our eyes, locked together, speak more naked truths than our mouths ever have."
    50. -Colleen Hoover
    51. "Every incident chips away at your limit. Every time you choose to stay, it makes the next time that much harder to leave. Eventually, you lose sight of your limit altogether, because you start to think, 'I’ve lasted five years now. What’s five more?'"
    52. -Colleen Hoover
    53. "I'm sure there's more substance in the love between two adults than there is between two teenagers. There's probably more maturity, more respect, more responsibility. But no matter how different the substance of a love might be at different ages in a person's life, I know that love still has to weight the same."
    54. -Colleen Hoover
    55. "Do you have any idea how many doors I’ve knocked on to find you?"
    56. -Colleen Hoover
    57. "But sometimes you can’t control where your mind goes. You just have to train it not to go there anymore."
    58. -Colleen Hoover
    59. "As his daughter, I loved him. But as a human, I hated him."
    60. -Colleen Hoover
    61. "People spend so much time wondering why the women don't leave. Where are all the people who wonder why the men are even abusive? Isn't that where the only blame should be placed?"
    62. -Colleen Hoover
    63. "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."
    64. -Colleen Hoover
    65. "You don’t put pressure on me to be something I’m incapable of being. You accept me exactly how I am."
    66. -Colleen Hoover
    67. "And people like my father are the problem. Instead of helping others, people use the worst-case scenarios to excuse their own selfishness and greed."
    68. -Colleen Hoover
    69. "The last thing you want to do is lose sight of your limit. Please don’t allow that to happen... We all have a limit. What we’re willing to put up with before we break."
    70. -Colleen Hoover
    71. "When life gets you down do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do? . . . Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming."
    72. -Colleen Hoover
    73. "Plants need to be loved the right way in order to survive. So do humans. We rely on our parents from birth to love us enough to keep us alive. And if our parents show us the right kind of love, we turn out as better humans overall. But if we’re neglected . . . we’re neglected, we end up homeless and incapable of anything meaningful."
    74. -Colleen Hoover
    75. "Do we all repeat the same words in our heads in the days after experiencing abuse at the hands of those who love us? 'From this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, until death do us part.'"
    76. -Colleen Hoover
    77. "Maybe those vows weren't meant to be taken as literally as some spouses take them. For better, for worse? Fuck. That. Shit."
    78. -Colleen Hoover
    79. "Of course I want to succeed, but at this point I’m not even sure if that matters. I had a dream and I busted my ass to make it come true. Whatever happens after today is just icing on the cake."
    80. -Colleen Hoover
    81. "In all the time we've spent together, I think we both sort of knew this wasn't a forever thing. I'm not sure why, because I could easily love him that way."
    82. -Colleen Hoover
    83. "But sometimes the reason women go back is simply because they’re in love. I love my husband, Ellen. I love so many things about him. I wish cutting my feelings off for the person who hurt me was as easy as I used to think it would be."
    84. -Colleen Hoover
    85. "But I didn't die. Because he let go and here I am. Still living. Still breathing. Just barely."
    86. -Colleen Hoover
    87. "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."
    88. -Colleen Hoover
    89. "Sometimes—not very often at all, actually—a voice will penetrate past my ears and reverberate straight down through my body."
    90. -Colleen Hoover
    91. "You’re the most important part of my life, Lily. I want to be what brings you happiness. Not what causes you to hurt."
    92. -Colleen Hoover
    93. "Everyone deserves another chance. Especially the people who mean the most to you."
    94. -Colleen Hoover
    95. "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."
    96. -Colleen Hoover
    97. "I think about how easy it is for humans to make judgments when we're standing on the outside of a situation."
    98. -Colleen Hoover
    99. "I think about how easy it is for humans to make judgments when we're standing on the outside of a situation."
    100. -Colleen Hoover
    101. "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."
    102. -Colleen Hoover
    103. "I don't know why I always feel like crying when I'm around him. When I think about him. When I read about him. It's like my emotions are still tethered to him somehow and I can't figure out how to cut the strings."
    104. -Colleen Hoover
    105. "I'm sure there's more substance in the love between two adults than there is between two teenagers. There's probably more maturity, more respect, more responsibility. But no matter how different the substance of a love might be at different ages in a person's life, I know that love still has to weigh the same."
    106. -Colleen Hoover
    107. "But I didn’t die. Because he let go and here I am. Still living. Still breathing. Just barely."
    108. -Colleen Hoover

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    Colleen Hoover, born in Sulphur Springs, Texas, developed a passion for storytelling and human connections. After studying social work, she ventured into creative writing, channeling deep emotions into her works. Her debut novel, “Slammed,” gain...

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