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"It ends with us" by Colleen Hoover is a remarkable piece of writing that will hit you with the bitter realities of life and leave you with a hundred different emotions.
This is not your typical love
story where the guy and the girl meet each other fall in love and happily ever after.
Isn't it that life is way much
more than happily ever afters, where it is full of heartbreaks, doubts,
difficult decisions, and whatnot. And most importantly, the fact that "Sometimes
the one who loves you the most hurts you the most"
Colleen Hoover has given a perfect outlook of all those things in this book and how one must know when is the time to give a chance and when it is time to leave. One must not follow the conventional patterns of forgiving and giving a chance, again and again, they must know how to break a pattern. Even when you are the one who has to do it.
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| it ends with us by colleen hoover |
Coming to the plot of the book this is the story of 23 years old Lily Bloom who's trying to figure out the best she can do with her life after the death of her father. Lily had a love-hate relationship with her father where she loved him because he was best for her but she hated him more because he used to be the worst to her mother. Feeling restless about what Lily did in her father's funeral, she was spending time alone on the ledge of a roof where she had the first encounter with Ryle Kincaid who was a surgeon by profession. Their first interaction feels surreal and they share many truths of their life in that first meeting. They named those secret realities of their life as "naked truths."
After their first encounter, none
of them sees each other again while six months after that they both meet
in a shop that was just bought by Lily to start her floral shop. This time
Ryle comes to her shop not because of Lily but because of Allysa who is supposed
to be Ryle's sister and Lily's just-hired-new-employee and later a best friend.
This mutual connection leads to several encounters between Ryle and Lily until
they both fell in love.
But, here comes the reality,
remember the "naked truths"?
Lily and Ryle both had pasts that
would leave a long-lasting imprint in their married life. Lily was brought up
in an abusive environment where her father used to physically assault her
mother badly. While as far as Ryle's truth is concerned, I won't disclose that.
It would be a spoiler then.
But what do you think that how
can a relationship last if one of the partners is abusing the other? Do you
think that Ryle and Lily's relationship was something different? There's so
much more to this book and I don't want to spoil it for you.
Give it a read! It's definitely
worth it. The starting might seem way too ordinary and cringe if you don't like
YA fiction much but trust me as an overall book, it's amazing. I loved it❤
P.s. Colleen Hoover has written this novel somehow relating to her own life. So this one's different from the other ones.
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"Deep down we are all an equal
amount of screwed up. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others"
"No one is exclusively bad,
nor is anyone exclusively good. Some are just forced to work harder at suppressing
the bad"
"Plants need to be loved the
right way in order to survive. So do humans. We rely on our parents from birth
to love us enough to keep us alive. And if our parents show us the right kind
of love, we turn out as better humans overall"
"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"
"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 the tide"
"I whisper 'Just keep
swimming.' But it gets really hard to swim when you feel like you're anchored
in the water"
"People spend soo much time
wondering why women don't leave. Where are all the people who wonder why the
men are even abusive? Isn't that where the only blame should be placed?"
"Sometimes the things that
matter to you the most are also the things that hurt you the most"
"Just because someone hurts
you doesn't mean you can simply stop loving them. It's not a person's actions
that hurt the most. It's the love. If there was no love attached to the action,
the pain would be a little easier to bear"
"Every time you choose to
stay, it makes the next time that much harder to leave"
"How easy it is for humans
to make judgments when we are standing on the outside of a situation. It's easy
when we are on the outside to believe that we would walk away without a second
thought if a person mistreated us"
"Sometimes parents have to
work through their differences and bring a level of maturity into a situation
in order to do what's best for their child"
"Break the pattern before
the pattern breaks us"
"Cycles exist because they are excruciating to break. It takes an astronomical amount of pain and courage to disrupt a familiar pattern. Sometimes it seems easier to just keep running in the same familiar circles, rather than facing the fear of jumping and possibly not landing on your feet"