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

by Colleen Hoover

Atlas. 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.

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’ll keep pretending to swim, when really all I’m doing is floating. Barely keeping my head above water. —Lily

Five minutes. That’s all it takes to completely destroy a person.

And as hard as this choice is, we break the pattern before the pattern breaks us.