IT ENDS WITH US BOOK QUOTES

“Fifteen seconds. That’s all it takes to completely change everything about a person. Fifteen seconds that we’ll never get back.”

“Sometimes it’s the one who loves you who hurts you the most.”

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

“It feels strange to realize that loving someone doesn’t always mean you’ll stay in their life.”

“It takes just as much courage to say goodbye as it does to say hello.”

“You never know why people do what they do. But if you get rid of the whys, worry only about yourself.”

“Just because we didn’t end up on the same wave, doesn’t mean we aren’t still a part of the same ocean.”

“Sometimes the one who loves you is the one who hurts you the most.”

“The point is that whether the love of your life stays or leaves, you have to be able to stand on your own two feet.”

“The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.”

“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.”

“I think about hard things, like how it’s impossible to unravel knots in our heart, and how sometimes we have to make hurtful choices for painful reasons.” LOVING DETACHMENT QUOTES

“But the truth is, I’d said we weren’t any one difficult thing, but I forgot to mention we were made up of many difficult things and as the years went on, we were going to grow into so many more.”

“In the end, the one who continually breaks your heart isn’t that different from the person who healed it, after all. They just had a different story to tell.”

“I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other’s wounds; they repair the broken skin.”

“If I were to die right now- before providing him the bluntness he deserves- it would stick with me forever. I’ll never forget the look of runaway hopelessness and fading belief in his eyes.”

“I force the stars from my eyes. They dim with tears threatening to be shed, but blinking doesn’t let them fall.”

“But the truth about truth is that it exists, and while it might not always be the ideal perception in someone’s mind, it doesn’t cease to exist.”

“I was trapped. In a cycle. A cycle of feelings and emotions so strong it sucked me in all over again, when all I wanted was to breathe.”

“This is what it’s like to be happy, Fallon. You’ll see. We can be happy together.”

“I refuse to let my past define me, even if it affects me.”

“Choosing to speak up is the starting point of change.”

“Maybe love isn’t something that stops. Maybe it just changes.”