Book Hyperfixations > Book's Quotes

“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.

My mother went through it.

I went through it.

I'll be damned if I allow my daughter to go through it.

I kiss her on the forehead and make her a promise. "It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“It's all worth it. It's the beautiful moments like these that make up for the ugly love.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“Theodore," Ben says, interrupting him. " You seem like a... nice guy."
"Thanks," Theodore says, smiling.
"Let me finish," Ben says, holding up a finder in warning. "Because you're about to hate me. I lied. I'm not writing a paper." He points at Glenn. "This guy told me earlier today where to show up tonight so that I could find the girl I'm supposed to spend the rest of my life with. And I'm sorry, but that girl just so happens to be your date. And I'm in love with her. Like, really in love with her. Crippling, debilitating, paralyzing love. So please accept my sincerest apologies, because she's coming home with me tonight. I hope. I pray." Ben shoots me an endearing look. "Please ? Otherwise this speech will make me look like a complete fool and that won't be good when we tell our grandkids about this.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“I had that picture made the day after I took it," he says. "It's been in my apartment for months now, because you were the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen and I wanted to look at it every single day."
”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I can't explain the mind of a writer to you, Jeremy. Especially the mind of a writer who has been through more devastation than most writers combined.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“You ever heard that expression, ‘When life gives you lemons . . .’?” “Make lemonade,” I say, finishing his quote. Cap looks at me and shakes his head. “That’s not how it goes,” he says. “When life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them in.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“I thought you were the one that got away." I smile. "I still could be." "Don't be.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

“Sometimes moving on is the only way to move on.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“I'm not very good with on-the-spot motivational speech," I say to her. "Sometimes at night, I'll rewrite conversations I had during the day, but I'll change them up to reflect everything I wish I could have said in the moment. So I just want you to know that tonight when I write this conversation down on paper, I'll say something really heroic and it'll make you feel really good about your life.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“-Don’t
worry. Hearts don’t have bones. They can’t actually break'

-“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?”

-"Yeah"he whispers.
“It does. Maybe we both grew heart bones.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“He presses a gentle kiss there and it feels just like the first time he kissed me there all those years ago. He brings his mouth to my ear, and in a whisper, he says, "You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“- Then I realized maybe Atlas wasn't supposed to be my whole life. Maybe he was only supposed to be a part of it.
- I'm going to make a promise to you. When my life is good enough for you to be a part of it, I'll come find you. But I don't want you to wait around for me, because that might never happen.
- You pushed me. "You fell", he says.
- You are my wife. I'm supposed to be the one who protects you from the monsters. I'm not supposed to be the one.
- Where did you get that magnet, Lily?
- Lily saved your life, now you're saving hers.
- I had nothing to offer you but live, and to me, you deserved more than that- Atlas
- If you severer need me, I want you to call me. But only if it's an emergency. I'm not capable of being casual with you, Lily.- Atlas
- In the future..if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again..fall in love with me. You're still my favourite person, Lily. Always will be.- Atlas
- 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.
-It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us- Lily to her baby Emerson.
- I feel like my life is good enough for you now. So whenever you're ready...- Atlas
- You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore."- Atlas”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“He shrugs. "Not to most people."
This makes me smile. I like that he doesn't even know me, but for whatever reason, I'm not considered most people to him.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“It's gonna hurt," I warn.
He laughs as though he knows pain and to him, this isn't pain.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“I love you to life," because that's exactly what Tate did. She loved me back to life.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“I have a daughter I have never held.
She has a scent I have never smelled
She has a name I have never yelled.
She has a mother who has already failed.
Love,
Kenna”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“He sat down in the grass. I pointed at the row of trees that lined the fence to the left of the yard. "You see that tree over there?" In the middle of the row of trees was a oak tree that stood taller than all the rest of the trees. Atlas glanced over at it and dragged his eyes all the way up the top of the tree. "It grew on its own," I said. "Most plants do need a lot of care to survive. But some things, like trees, are strong enough to do it by just relying on themselves and nobody else.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Can you please go?" I say it as nicely as possible,but asking someone to leave you alone can never not sting.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“When they placed out newborn son on my chest, I looked down at him through teary eyes, and i said,
"Hi, Scotty."
Love,
Kenna”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“Sometimes people think if they love a broken person enough, they can be what finally repairs them, but the problem with that is the other person just ends up broken, too.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“She “loved me” in quotations She kissed me in bold I TRIED TO KEEP HER in all caps She left with an ellipsis . . .”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“Goals are achieved through discomfort and hard work. They aren’t achieved when you hide out in a place where you’re nice and cozy.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“I think about you every second of every day and I don’t know how to get over you,” she says.

“Don’t,” I beg her. “Please don’t get over me.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“You left with my soul in your fists and my heart in your teeth, and I don’t want either of them back.” ~Ben”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“Don't stop" I tease in a seductive voice. " Give me more, Ben. Did you read eBooks or..." I run my finger slowly down his chest."Hardbacks?"
He pulls his hands behind his head and a smug look washes over his face. "Oh, they were hardbacks, all right. And I'm not sure if you're ready for this, but...I have my own TBR pile. You should read it, Fallon. It's huge"”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“If you don’t show up today, I’ll be there next year. And the next. Every November 9th I’ll wait for you, hoping one day you’ll be able to find enough forgiveness to love me again. But if that doesn’t happen and you never show, I’ll still be grateful to you until the day that I die. You saved me the day we met.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“We don't get to choose our parents, and parents don't get to choose their children. But we do get to choose how hard we're willing to work in order to make the best of what we're given.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“If she’s not careful, I might just fall in love with her. Tonight.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“What rules?”

“Well, for one, I’m not allowed to break your heart,” he says. “Second, I’m also not allowed to break your damn heart. And last, I’m not allowed to fucking break your damn heart.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“If I were capable of loving someone . . . it would be you.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love