It Starts With Us Quotes
"Some people just have a calming presence about them and he's one of those people. Completely opposite of my father."
"I'm good. Exhausted most of the time, but I guess that's what I get for being a business owner and a single mother."
"I'm sorry. I just drank coffee. It'll hit in a minute."
"You should go work on that before they come back."
"I can't think of a single subject you could discuss that would bore me."
"Everyone handles stress differently, and none of those ways is necessarily wrong, but Lily handles it with grace."
"I realized at that point I had been giving her too much credit."
"She’s still sound asleep, so I pull out my phone and open a blank note. I start typing, detailing what my life was like before she entered it."
"When Atlas and I fell in love, neither of us were what we would now consider adults."
"My favorite moment was when he pulled back for a second and looked down at me, then came back even harder."
"We’ve been discussing all the places we’ve traveled. He has me beat by a long shot."
"Society has obviously been worshipping the wrong heroes this whole time."
"Divorce is difficult. I knew it would be, but it’s so much harder than I anticipated."
"Every time I would doubt myself and think that what Ryle did to me was in any way deserved, all I had to do was think about you, Atlas."
"If there's anything at all I regret, it's that I didn't fight harder for you."
"I'm so happy you're happy. That's all I've ever wanted for you."
"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."
"I had to get to a point where I realized I was always worthy of being loved by you."
"You’re stressing over things that haven’t even happened yet."
"We’re divorced, Ryle. You can’t ask me questions like that."
"I don’t have the energy to keep convincing you otherwise. I’ve explained this to you before, so I’m not saying it again."
"As much as I want to, I don’t want to have to leave right after."
"We’re here. I had to get to a point where I realized I was always worthy of being loved by you."
"You’re right, I don’t know anything about his family, either."
"They really should stop having kids do these things."
"As long as you try, they can’t give you a bad grade for not knowing your grandparents."
"You aren’t a pessimist, Atlas. You’re a realist, and I need that from you."
"We aren’t having this conversation right now."
"Whatever happens, you aren’t alone in this anymore."
"Depending on your interactions with me going forward, we’ll decide as a family when we feel comfortable with you having unsupervised visits with the girls."
"I’ve given you more than enough grace, Ryle. You know I have. But from this point forward, please know that Emerson is what matters to me."
"I could cry for all the victims who don’t have people like them."
"You don’t know anything about the people you brought into this world."
"The last thing I want is for that boy to grow up feeling as unloved by you as I felt."
"Maybe no one in her life has ever let her know they’re appreciative that it still beats."
"The fact that he felt okay enough to leave her with you… It feels good knowing the men in her life can at least pretend to get along for her sake."
"I’m sure you felt much older than you were. I know I did."
"You were a single mother, and I know neither of our fathers helped you in any way. That must have been really difficult for you."