50 It Starts With Us Quotes With Page Numbers & Chapters

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If you’ve read It Ends With Us, you’ll know that the book had many great quotes.

After reading It Ends With Us, it’s checking out It Starts With Us as it once again follows Lily Bloom, who navigates life as a single mother and tries to find love again when Atlas Corrigan, a famous chef and childhood lover, walks back into her life.

It Starts With Us, the sequel, also has many good quotes. Here are some of the best quotes from It Starts With Us, written by Colleen Hoover.

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50 It Starts With Us Quotes With Page Numbers & Chapters

Atlas Corrigan Quotes from It Starts With Us

“Now I actually like my life. I’m proud of what I’ve accomplished. I have absolutely no desire to allow anyone from my past to come in and threaten that.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 5)

“You could have fifty ex-husbands who try to make our lives hell, but as long as I have you, I will be absolutely unaffected by anyone else’s negativity. That’s a promise.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 25, Page 221)

“I’ve spent my life not making bold moves when it comes to her. I wanted to make sure she knew where I stood this time.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 7, Page 44)

“I run my hand over her back for a while, and then I stroke my fingers through her hair, wondering how in the world she can make me feel so whole when I had no idea I was only half of myself without her.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 23)

“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 (Chapter 14, Page 122)

“Don’t think about where we used to be; just think about where we are”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 9, Page 64)

“She’s my person, and I am hers, and that’s something I’ve known since the first week we met.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 25, Page 221)

“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 (Chapter 21, Page 187)

“And every time I kiss you there, I want you to remember why I kissed you there the first time.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 34, Page 300)

“Sometimes you’re going to need me to hold your hand down the hills, and sometimes I’ll need you to lead me up the mountain, but everything, from this point forward, we’re going to face together.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 37, Page 319)

“I saw your tattoo. I can’t tell you what that means to me, knowing that you have our heart placed in the very spot where I once secretly buried the words I love you”
Colleen Hoover (It Starts With Us, Chapter 34)

“I’m so happy you’re happy. That’s all I’ve ever wanted for you. But I will say, nothing beats knowing I’m the one you get to be happy with now.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 24, Page 210)

“In the past and for forever, you are my favorite person. Always have been. Always will be. I love you. Everything that you are.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 37, Page 319)

“Our weekend special, ” Atlas says. “It’s called why are you avoiding me pasta.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 6, Page 35)

“You’re stressing over things that haven’t even happened yet”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 8, Page 52)

“I loved her more than I had ever loved anyone before that moment. I think I loved her more than I’ve ever loved anyone after that moment. I think I still might.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 11, Page 84)

“But then I met you, Lily. And even though I was nothing, when you looked at me, you somehow saw something. Something I couldn’t see. You were the first person in my life to show an interest in who I was as a human. No one had ever asked me questions about myself the way you did. After those few months I spent getting to know you, I stopped feeling like I was nothing. You made me feel interesting and unique. Your friendship gave me worth.
Colleen Hoover(Chapter 12, Page 96)

“I’m getting a new therapist who doesn’t bully me.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 19, Page 176)

“We don’t focus too much on what isn’t working out in our lives. We focus on what is, and there’s a lot to be grateful for.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 35, Page 304)

“If we trusted everyone to keep their word, vows wouldn’t be necessary. People would fall in love, and they’d stay in love, faithfully, forever, the end. But that’s the issue, I guess. We’re people. We’re human. And humans can sometimes be disappointing.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 37, Page 317)

“If it’s my destiny to end up a statistic, there’s no one else I’d rather become a statistic with than you.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 37, Page 319)

“Maybe the idea of love ending being a negative thing is simply a matter of perspective. Because to me, the idea that a love came to an end means that, at some point, there was love that existed. And there was a time in my life, before you, when I was completely untouched by it.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 37, Page 319)

“P.S. It is my wish for you to be my fish.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 37, Page 320)

“Thank you for that. Even if this date leads nowhere and we never speak again, I will always be grateful to you for somehow seeing something in me that my own mother was blind to.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 12, Page 96)

“You’re my favorite person, Lily. And now you know why.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 12, Page 96)

“There isn’t a single human in history with a past misfortunate enough to excuse beating the person you’re supposed to protect.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 27, Page 235)

“I had fallen in love with her long before our first kiss, though.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 11, Page 84)

“But even monsters can’t survive without a heart beating inside their chest.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 33, Page 290)

“One breath, one kiss, one day, one year, one lifetime.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 37)

Lily Bloom Quotes from It Starts With Us

“My choice helped me realize that sometimes the hardest decisions a person can make will most likely lead to the best outcomes.”
Colleen Hoover (It Starts With Us)

“I don’t know how he calmed me down without even talking, but he did. Some people just have a calming presence about them and he’s one of those people.”
Colleen Hoover, It Starts With Us, Chapter 8

“It’s not the first time he’s mentioned I saved him back then, but every time he says it, I want to argue with him. I didn’t save him. All I did was fall in love with him.”
Colleen Hoover, It Starts With Us, (Chapter 8, Page 56)

“Atlas is so angry, but this is an anger I’m not afraid of. I realize the significance of this moment. I’m alone with an angry man in my apartment, but I’m not in fear for my life, because he isn’t angry at me.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 20, Page 182)

“I’m exactly where I belong, being loved by Atlas Corrigan”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 22, Page 207)

“My loyalty is to the people who bring positivity into my life. My loyalty is to the people who want to build me up and see me happy. Those are the people I’m going to make decisions about my life for.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 28)

“We’re impressionable when we’re younger, and when you’re told you are nothing for years on end by everyone you should mean something to, you start to believe it. And you slowly start to become nothing.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 12, Page 96)

“I may not be perfect, but I don’t deserve to fear for my life every time I make a mistake.”
Colleen Hoover(Chapter 12, Page 107)

“Here comes the gaslighting. He’s attempting to make me feel crazy for being scared, even though my fear is more than warranted.”
Colleen Hoover(Chapter 12, Page 108)

“Anyone who has ever left a manipulative, abusive spouse and somehow stayed that course deserves a medal. A statue. A freaking superhero movie. Society has obviously been worshipping the wrong heroes this whole time because I’m convinced it takes less strength to pick up a building than it does to permanently leave an abusive situation.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 12, Page 112)

“Divorce is difficult. I knew it would be, but it’s so much harder than I anticipated. And navigating divorce with a child in the mix is a million times trickier. You’re stuck interacting with that person for the remainder of your life.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 16, Page 143)

“Thank you for being the most comforting part of my life right now. Thank you for always being the beacon I need every time I feel lost. Whether you mean to shine on me or not. I am grateful for you. I’ve missed you. I absolutely should have kissed you.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 16, Page 151)

“I prefer honesty over loyalty any day, because with honesty comes loyalty.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 18, Page 168)

“He’s a broken man, but he isn’t broken because of me. He was broken before he met me.”
Colleen Hoover(Chapter 24, Page 207)

“I realize in this moment that the hardest part about ending an abusive relationship is that you aren’t necessarily putting an end to the bad.”
Colleen Hoover(Chapter 26)

“She’s not a ride-or-die friend, nor is she a ride-or-die sister. That’s what I love the most about her, because I’m not ride-or-die, either. If you do something stupid, I’m going to be the friend who tells you you’re doing something stupid. I’m not going to join you in your stupidity.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 18, Page 168)

“She’s not a ride-or-die friend, nor is she a ride-or-die sister. That’s what I love the most about her, because I’m not ride-or-die, either. If you do something stupid”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 18, Page 168)

“I’m going to be the friend who tells you you’re doing something stupid. I’m not going to join you in your stupidity.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 18, Page 168)

Theo Quotes from It Starts With Us

“We’ve finally reached the beach my little whale.”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 7, Page 47)

“It is my wish for you to be my fish”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 37, Page 315)

“Oh, are you at Lily’s?” Theo says, moving closer to the phone screen. He’s grinning. “Did you finally kiss her? Can she hear me? What line did you use to get her to invite you in? Lily! We watched people wed, let’s hop into—”
Colleen Hoover (Chapter 21, Page 189)

Wrap-Up: It Starts With Us Famous Quotes With Page Numbers & Chapters

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