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

by Colleen Hoover

“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”

Instead of helping others, people use the worst-case scenarios to excuse their own selfishness and greed.

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.

I think about how sometimes, no matter how convinced you are that your life will turn out a certain way, all that certainty can be washed away with a simple change in tide.

We’d just been two people who helped each other when we needed it and got our hearts fused together along the way.

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.

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

For better, for worse? Fuck. That. Shit.

That’s what fifteen minutes can do to a person. It can destroy them. It can save them.