M > M's 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

“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.”
― 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

“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

“Lily, Atlas says just keep swimming. —Ellen DeGeneres”
― 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

“love him. I still do and I always will. He was a huge wave that left a lot of imprints on my life, and I’ll feel the weight of that love until I die. I’ve accepted that.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Until he comes back for me, I’m just going to keep pretending to be okay. 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

“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

“We’re just alike,... Plants and humans. 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”
― colleen hoover, It Ends with Us