31 'It Ends With Us' Quotes

Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel It Ends With Us is an honest, evocative, and tender novel about Lily Bloom. It’s an incredibly deep story that explores various subject matters that will stick with you long after reading. It’s one of my all-time favorite, five-star rated books.

The book also features many inspiring and thought-provoking book quotes about love, romance, and relationships.

Whether it’s charming romance quotes from literature or inspiring bookworm quotes, I always get excited to read them. So if you love quotes from books like me, here are the best quotes from It Ends With Us.

It Ends With Us Synopsis

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Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most.

Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up — she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.

Ryle is assertive, stubborn, and maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.

As questions about her new relationship overwhelms her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan — her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.

Best Quotes From 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

It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”

― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

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

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. Fifteen.”― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

Naked truths aren’t always pretty.”― Colleen Hoover, 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.” He presses his lips against my forehead. “You’re still my favorite person, Lily. Always will be.”― 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

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

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

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.”― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

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

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

No one is exclusively bad, nor is anyone exclusively good. Some are just forced to work harder at suppressing the bad.”― 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

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

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

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

Shouldn’t there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?”― 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

Every incident chips away at your limit. Every time you choose to stay, it makes the next time that much harder to leave. Eventually, you lose sight of your limit altogether, because you start to think, ‘I’ve lasted five years now. What’s five more?”― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

It’s easy when we’re on the outside to believe that we would walk away without a second thought if a person mistreated us. It’s easy to say we couldn’t continue to love someone who mistreats us when we aren’t the ones feeling the love of that person. When you experience it firsthand, it isn’t so easy to hate the person who mistreats you when most of the time they’re your godsend. Ryle”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

As his daughter, I loved him. But as a human, I hated him.”― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

People spend so much time wondering why the women don’t leave. Where are all the people who wonder why men are even abusive? Isn’t that where the only blame should be placed?”― 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

That’s what fifteen minutes can do to a person. It can destroy them. It can save them.”― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

My favorite conversations are the ones with no real answers.”― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

love him. I still do and I always will. He was a huge wave that left a lot of imprint on my life, and I’ll feel the weight of that love until I die. I’ve accepted that.”― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

Everyone deserves another chance. Especially the people who mean the most to you.”― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

My favorite quotes from It Ends With Us

I really loved and admired the character Atlas so, my favorite quotes from It Ends With Us have to be by him.

In the future… if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again… fall in love with me.” He presses his lips against my forehead. “You’re still my favorite person, Lily. Always will be.

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

Creative Ways to Use Quotes from It Ends With Us

Now that you have got the best quotes from It Ends With Us, let’s explore the best ways to use these quotes.

Use as Bookstagram Caption

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