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“Everything is almost better in Boston. Except the girls. Boston doesn’t have you.��
“Boston doesn’t have me yet. Someday I’ll move there and I’ll find you.��
He made me promise.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“It's one thing to dislike someone for how they treat me, but it's an entirely different kind of anger when the person I admire the most in this world is mistreated.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Yes, it'll be a FaceTime. Why would I waste time with a phone call when I can look at you?”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“But she's worth it.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“At sixteen, she was born again,
baptized with the fire pale as ice”
― Casey Waldam, Worldcatcher: A Young Adult Sci-Fi

“You have to stop being so perfect��, I told him. “You’re already my favorite person but now you’re making it really unfair to all the other humans because no one will ever be able to catch up to you.��
“Then my plan is working,�� he said, right before kissing me again.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Why are you buying me gifts, Atlas?��
“I bought it three years ago. I’ve been holding on to it in case I ever ran into you.��
Considerate Atlas. He hasn’t changed. Dammit.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Don't ask what the passing year has given you
Ask yourself, " This year, what you gave to the world”
― Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"

“If you don't come back for me, I'll come for you”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“He seemed very happy to see me, and then when he hugged me, it felt like a part of me that had been dormant suddenly sprang to life.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Is it worth it? Of course Atlas is worth it.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Guess who's back?
Me.
And Atlas.
Both of us.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“You shouldn't allow your concern for his feelings to persuade you to give up what could be the second-best thing to ever happen to you.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

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

“I can't think of a single subject you could discuss that would bore me.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I disagree with his belief that the things I say to her are stupid, but he's right about one thing. She's so beautiful, I do sometimes feel tongue-tied around her.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“«I'm just feeling inferior after reading about our first kiss.»
«Inferior to who? Yourself?»
He nods. «Teenage Atlas though your eyes was quite the charmer.»
«So is adult Atlas.»”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Then there's Lily and her impeccable timing being back in my life. She always seems to show up when I need a lifeline.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“«Would a hug make you feel better?»
«Obviously. I'll be fine after I get some sleep, though.»
«Hugs take two seconds, and you'll sleep so much better. What's your address?»
«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

“I can remember what it was like to be twelve. All I wanted was for someone to be interested in who I was, even if they were faking interest.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“You're a big part of the reason I got through it, even though you weren't there.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“One breath, one kiss, one day, one year, one lifetime. I'll take whatever you'll give me, and I vow that I will cherish every second I'm lucky enough to spend with you from this moment on, just as I've cherished every second I've ever spent with you before this moment.
We could live our entire lives together, happily, until we're old and frail and it takes an entire day for me just to reach your lips to kiss you goodnight. If that happens, I vow that I will be immensely grateful for the love that carried us through our life together.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“«I've loved you for years and years and years, Lily. You know that.»
«I've loved you for just as long.»
«I know you have. No one on this earth loves me like you do.»”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“This kiss is made up of a whole new set of ingredients. Our first kiss was made of fear and youthful inexperience.
This kiss is hope. It's comfort and safety and stability. It's everything I've been missing in my adult life, and I am so happy Atlas and I have each other again.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I fold myself around her, fitting her head under my chin. It's incredible how much we've both changed physically since we were teens, but we somehow still fit together just as perfectly as we did back then.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I press my lips to her tattoo, determined to make sure she remembers the good parts of us in all the future kisses I'm going to give her in this spot. 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

“But no matter how we got here, we're here.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“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.
Of course I've missed her all these years, and if I could have snapped my fingers and brought her back into my life, I would have in a heartbeat. But we have built lives without each other. I had grown used to not living life with her. But now that she's back, I don't know that I could ever feel whole again without her.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I've made a lot of small moves over the years that were all excused with "just in case Lily"...
After she left my place a couple of years ago, I went out and bought a lot of things just in case she needed to come back.
I've always had a little bit of hope that we'd end up together someday.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Before you, I had never met love at all.
But then you came along, and you changed that. Not only did I get the opportunity to be the first person to ever fall in love with you, but I also got to experience a shared heartbreak with you. And then, like a miracle, I was given the opportunity to fall in love with you all over again.
Two times in one life.
How can one man be so lucky?”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us