Joyce Li

“If it’s my destiny to end up a statistic, there’s no one else I’d rather become a statistic with than you.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“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

“If we trusted everyone to keep their word, vows wouldn’t be necessary. People would fall in love, and they’d stay in love, faithfully, forever, the end. But that’s the issue, I guess. We’re people. We’re human. And humans can sometimes be disappointing.”
― 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