Jayden Uderitz > Jayden's Quotes

“I can draw a seedling with two tiny branches. Yours and mine. We’ll be on our own brand-new, tiny family tree—one that starts with us.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“You're going to drive five miles just to give me a hug?"
"I'd run five miles just to give you a hug.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“It is my wish for you to be my fish”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“She's my person, and I am hers, and that's something I've known since the first week we met.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“If it takes a million kisses for her not to think about the scars that surround her heart tattoo, then I'll kiss her there a million and one times.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Thank you. What is it?"
"Our weekend special, " Atlas says. "It's called why are you avoiding me pasta.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I’m exactly where I belong, being loved by Atlas Corrigan.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“When I think about Ryle hitting you… I get absurdly angry. Because I love him. I do. He’s been my best friend since we were kids. But I also hate him for not being better. Nothing you have done and nothing you could do would excuse any man’s hands on you out of anger. Remember that, Lily. You made the right choice by leaving that situation. You should never feel guilty for that. Pride is the only thing you should feel.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Thank you for being the most comforting part of my life right now. Thank you for always being the beacon I need every time I feel lost. Whether you mean to shine on me or not. I am grateful for you. I’ve missed you. I absolutely should have kissed you.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Oh, are you at Lily’s?” Theo says, moving closer to the phone screen.
He’s grinning. “Did you finally kiss her? Can she hear me? What line did
you use to get her to invite you in? Lily! We watched people wed, let’s hop
into—”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“sometimes the hardest decisions a person can make will most likely lead to the best outcomes.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I’m getting a new therapist who doesn’t bully me.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Divorce is difficult. I knew it would be, but it’s so much harder than I anticipated. And navigating divorce with a child in the mix is a million times trickier. You’re stuck interacting with that person for the remainder of your life. You have to either figure out a way to plan birthday parties together or figure out a way to be okay with having separate celebrations. You have to plan on which holidays each of you get to spend with your child, which days of the week, down to which hours of the day sometimes. You can’t snap your fingers and be done with the person you married and divorced. You’re stuck with them. Forever.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Paris. Rome. London. I have no desire to sit on a hot beach somewhere. I want to see all the romantic places in Europe and make love in every city and take pictures kissing in front of the Eiffel Tower. I want to eat croissants and hold hands on trains.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“And every time I kiss you there, I want you to remember why I kissed you there the first time.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Anyone who has ever left a manipulative, abusive spouse and somehow stayed that course deserves a medal. A statue. A freaking superhero movie.

Society has obviously been worshipping the wrong heroes this whole time because I'm convinced it takes less strength to pick up a building than it does to permanently leave an abusive situation.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I'm so happy you're happy. That's all I've ever wanted for you. But I will say, nothing beats knowing I'm the one you get to be happy with now.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“It is my wish for you to be my fish.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“There’s this toxic belief that family should stick together simply because they’re family. But the best thing I ever did for myself was walk away from them. It scares me to think of where I might be had I not done that.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I blame Ryle for that. He took what little trust I had left in men thanks to my father, and he stripped me of it.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“It's me, Lily. It's us. There's nothing to be embarrased about.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I run my hand over her back for a while, and then I stroke my fingers through her hair, wondering how in the world she can make me feel so whole when I had no idea I was only half of myself without her.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I may not be perfect, but I don’t deserve to fear for my life every time I make a mistake.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Atlas is so angry, but this is an anger I'm not afraid of.
I realize the significance of this moment. I'm alone with an angry man in my apartment, but I'm not in fear for my life, because he isn't angry at me. He's angry at the person who hurt me. It's a protective anger, and there's a world of difference between my reactions to Ryle's anger versus my reaction to Atlas's anger.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Our weekend special,” Atlas says. “It’s called why are you avoiding me pasta.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“But no matter how mad I was, when she was standing right in front of me, I never, not for one second, thought about physically hurting her, I just wanted to hug her and cry on her shoulder.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“His dark side feeds off drama, and if no one gives him any, he makes it up.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us