It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2)

by Colleen Hoover

“You’re going to drive five miles just to give me a hug?” “I’d run five miles just to give you a hug.”

Sometimes people think if they love a broken person enough, they can be what finally repairs them, but the problem with that is the other person just ends up broken, too.

There’s this toxic belief that family should stick together simply because they’re family. But the best thing I ever did for myself was walk away from them.

“I can draw a seedling with two tiny branches. Yours and mine. We’ll be on our own brand-new, tiny family tree—one that starts with us.”