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It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us #1)
by

Colleen Hoover (Goodreads Author)

Krisha's review

Mar 16, 2016

it was amazing

bookshelves: intense-angsty, favorite-book, sobfest, unforgettable

I couldn't utter a single word to begin with. Just a moment, please.

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First, I'd like to thank Ann Vivero for giving me a copy and for recommending this book to me ❤

It's hard to write a review when the pain is raw and this heavy. This pulsating pain wasn't ebbing away till this morning but since the epilogue felt good, I think I'll give it a shot.

This is indeed an emotional read. That's a naked truth. I feel so much for Ryle. Imagine another destructive event in his life. Must have wrecked him into pieces yet he completely understand it has to happen. From swooning over him (if I can insert it here - it's that "Make it stop" thing lels!) to hating him when Ryle did what he did to Lily in a snap. Lily's realization after that is what I, myself would think of exactly. I can't help but also feel what she's feeling. It is that powerful. BUT after knowing Ryle's horrible past, how terribly sorry he is to Lily, how it hurts him even more to the point that he doesn't know what to do anymore, I couldn't hate him anymore. If there's anything, it's empathy. But Lily has to make that decision. She did what her mother told her "Be that girl, Lily. Brave and bold."

Atlas. Oh Atlas... damn, it's one of those books where you'll find it hard to take side.

"In the future...if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again...fall in love with me."

That line struck me the most. (view spoiler)

“You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.”

I also love how it's packed with truthful statements like how "we sometimes fake who we really are, when deep down we are all equal amounts of screwed up. That being a little guarded isn't a negative thing. And that how easy for us to say we couldn't continue to love someone who mistreats us when we aren't the ones feeling the love of that person. And lastly, that all humans make mistakes. That 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." Those truthful things. And oh, I love Finding Dory that's why this book is extra special to me. ❤

For this, I love you Colleen Hoover

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“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”
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“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.”
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“He pulls back to look down at me and when he sees my tears, he brings his hands up to my cheeks. “In the future... if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again... fall in love with me.”
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“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.”
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“It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”
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“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.”
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“Naked truths aren’t always pretty.”
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“No one is exclusively bad, nor is anyone exclusively good. Some are just forced to work harder at suppressing the bad.”
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“Maybe love isn’t something that comes full circle. It just ebbs and flows, in and out, just like the people in our lives”
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“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.”
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“I’ll keep pretending to swim, when really all I’m doing is floating. Barely keeping my head above water.”
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“You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.”
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“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.”
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