Last Updated on August 20, 2023 by Louisa
It Ends With Us was an international sensation and put Colleen Hoover on the map of best romance authors of all time…in my most humble opinion.
What I loved about this story was the tantalizing love triangle and how the protagonist, fresh out of college, makes some terrible mistakes with her love life but learns to find her way.
It Ends With Us was beautifully written and Colleen Hoover has written some incredible quotes about love and being human.
Here are some of my favorite It Ends With Us quotes by Colleen Hoover…
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It Ends With Us Quotes About Being Human
It Ends With Us follows a protagonist who falls in love with the wrong person, and as such, she learns a huge lesson about being human.
Here are some important It Ends With Us quotes about being human…
“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
“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“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. If there was no love attached to the action, the pain would be a little easier to bear.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“I feel like everyone fakes who they really are, when deep down we’re all equal amounts of screwed up. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“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.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn’t waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never.”
“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
“No one is exclusively bad, nor is anyone exclusively good. Some are just forced to work harder at suppressing the bad.”
“I think that’s one of the biggest signs a person has matured—knowing how to appreciate things that matter to others, even if they don’t matter very much to you.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“You’re only human. And as humans, we can’t expect to shoulder all of our pain. Sometimes we have to share it with the people who love us so we don’t come crashing down from the weight of it all”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“But sometimes you can’t control where your mind goes. You just have to train it not to go there anymore.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
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It Ends With Us Quotes About Love
One of the major themes of It Ends With Us was the love triangle. Here are some of the most romantic quotes about love from It Ends With Us…
“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
“Maybe love isn’t something that comes full circle. It just ebbs and flows, in and out, just like the people in our lives.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“Preventing your heart from forgiving someone you love is actually a hell of a lot harder than simply forgiving them.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“You are my wife. I’m supposed to be the one who protects you from the monsters. I’m not supposed to be one.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“I’m sure you didn’t miss me like I missed you, but sometimes the things that matter to you most are also the things that hurt you the most. And in order to get over that hurt, you have to sever all the extensions that keep you tethered to that pain. You were an extension of my pain, so I guess that’s what I was doing. I was just trying to save myself a little bit of agony.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“I’m sure there’s more substance in the love between two adults than there is between two teenagers. There’s probably more maturity, more respect, more responsibility. But no matter how different the substance of a love might be at different ages in a person’s life, I know that love still has to weight the same.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
Short It Ends With Us Quotes
Sometimes it only takes a few words to pack a punch. Here are some of the best short It Ends With Us quotes by Colleen Hoover.
“It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“And as hard as this choice is, we break the pattern before the pattern breaks us.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“Just because we didn’t end up on the same wave, doesn’t mean we aren’t still a part of the same ocean.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“Fifteen seconds. That’s all it takes to completely change everything about a person.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“Naked truths aren’t always pretty.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“I love it when the night sky makes me feel insignificant”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“I hope you defy the odds of most dreams and actually accomplish yours.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“Sometimes even grown women need their mother’s comfort so we can just take a break from having to be strong all the time.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“Our eyes, locked together, speak more naked truths than our mouths ever have.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“As his daughter, I loved him. But as a human, I hated him.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
“My favorite conversations are the ones with no real answers.”
Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
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Final Word on It Ends With Us Quotes by Colleen Hoover
So there you have it, those were my favorite It Ends With Us quotes by Colleen Hoover, from the short and sweet to the insightful lines about being human.
I hope you found these quotes useful and enlightening! If you did, let me know in the comments.
