It Starts With Us Quotes

“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

“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

“But even monsters can't survive without a heart beating inside their chest.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“A veces las personas piensas que, si aman a alguien roto con la suficiente intensidad, lograrán repararlo, pero no es así. Lo mas probable es que la otra persona acabe igual de rota.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Es obvio que la sociedad ha elegido mal los héroes a los que adoramos, porque no me cabe duda de que es más fácil levantar un edificio que abandonar definitivamente la relación con un maltratador”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“My life is complicated." I don't intend for it to come out like a warning, but it does.
"I want to help you uncomplicate it.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“you're stressing over his potential reaction to things that haven't even happened yet”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“He didn't like being confronted. He preferred the preteen version of me he met to the near adult I grew into. He liked the version of me he could push around without being pushed back. The version of me he could manipulate without me calling him out.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“no one has ever said such heartbreakingly sad things in such a sweet way to me before”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“He smiles at me, and it instantly flips the mood. It's remarkable how his smile can dictate the feelings occurring inside my own chest.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I'm grateful for Atlas because I know he's the standard I now hold people to. He's the standard I should have held Ryle to from the very beginning.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“He's the one always trying to push my boundaries and straddle the line of what I'm okay with, and I'm honestly tired of it.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Allysa cheated on me."
Marshall's words stun me silent for a good five seconds. "Wh-what?"
"It was a long time ago. We worked through it, but dammit, it hurt like hell. She broke my heart.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I have no idea what to do about it, but I know that this isn't something I'm willing to tolerate.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Stop blaming your behavior on other people, Ryle!”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I thought I pitied him before, but he's fighting for a woman he barely even knows, which means he's just fighting for the sake of fighting.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“It's the kind of kiss that screams I've missed kissing you.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I can't get enough of her, but I think it's okay because she can't seem to get enough of me.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“The tension in the room is palpable, but so is the support. I could cry, I'm so grateful for them.
I could cry for all the victims who don't have people like them.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“all I've ever wanted out of our divorce was my freedom from fear”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“It makes me happy to know there's a man in your life that gives meaningful hugs like that.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“If someone would have told me when I was a teenager that I would have a fifty-fifty chance of living my entire life with you, I would have felt like the luckiest human on the planet.
If someone would have told me that I had a 50 percent chance of being loved by you, I would have wondered what the hell I did to get so lucky.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us