*contains spoilers* 
 "There is no such thing as bad people. We're all just people who sometimes do bad things." 
 What can I say that hasn't been said already? 
 Colleen Hoover tells the most heartbreaking, tragic, beautiful stories I've ever read, and this may be the most important of them all. 
 Taking such a delicate subject like domestic violence and portraying it from such a realistic, raw point of view was so powerful. Situations like that are not black and white, especially for the victim. As this book showed so honestly, even when the one person you love more than anything physically hurts you it is not always easy to just up and leave. Because as was just stated, you love them. You want to believe their promises and declarations. Seeing Lily and her mother go through this made my heart ache. 
 "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." 
 Another thing CoHo made me do? Fall in love with problematic Ryle Kincaid. I was right there with Lily, wanting him to change, be better, because I fell in love with him as well, and all his naked truths. I loved the family dynamic brought in with his sister ending up as Lily's best friend. That added an extra layer to this already impressive plot, and I loved how supportive and amazing Alyssa was to Lily. She always had her best interests in mind, even when it may have hurt her brother. That is true friendship. 
 "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." 
 And I can't forget about Atlas Corrigan. I would have loved to have seen more of him in Lily's life when they were grown, but this is mainly Ryle and Lily's story, with Atlas always being the constant. I thought the diary entries from Lily were genius. They revealed backstory without directly saying it to the reader, and they truly brought Atlas to life. Of course I fell in love with him too. It's CoHo, that was a given. I have such high hopes for he and Lily! 
 "He pulls back to look down at me and when he sees my tears, he brings his hands up to my cheeks. "In the future . . . if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again . . . fall in love with me." 
 THAT WAS THE SOUND OF MY HEART BREAKING. 
 The ending was so bittersweet, and reading the Author's Note made it even more so. I truly believe Lily did the right thing, as hard as it was to see. And to read the quote in the book that gave it its title was the final straw before I bawled like a baby: 
 "It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us." 
 This story is so important. Read this book.