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Ellen DeGeneres is a real-life comedian and television personality. As a teenager, Lily watched her talk show, Ellen, every day after school. Lily and Atlas bond over watching the show together. Lily addressed her childhood journal entries to DeGeneres because she saw the comedian as a safe person and friend, though she never actually sent her any letters. Journaling helped young Lily process both the violent environment of her home and her childhood romance with Atlas. In adulthood, re-reading these entries allows Lily to revisit these difficult memories, which informs her decisions about her own abusive relationship with Ryle and her rekindled friendship with Atlas. One of DeGeneres’s quotes from Finding Nemo is “just keep swimming.” The quote is particularly significant to Atlas and Lily, as they repeat it to each other in difficult moments.
Ellen DeGeneres Quotes in It Ends with Us
The It Ends with Us quotes below are all either spoken by Ellen DeGeneres or refer to Ellen DeGeneres. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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I open the shoebox on my lap and pull out the contents. On the very top is a small wooden, hollow heart. I run my fingers over it and remember the night I was given this heart. As soon as the memory begins to sink in, I set it aside. Nostalgia is a funny thing.
I move a few old letters and newspaper clippings aside. Beneath all of it, I find what I was hoping was inside these boxes. And also sort of hoping wasn’t.
My Ellen Diaries.
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Chapter 25
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I don’t even know where to start. I know you don’t know anything about my current life or my husband, Ryle. But there’s this thing we do where one of us says “naked truth,” and then we’re forced to be brutally honest and say what we’re really thinking.
So…naked truth.
Brace yourself.
I am in love with a man who physically hurts me. Of all people, I have no idea how I let myself get to this point.
There were many times growing up I wondered what was going through my mother’s head in the days after my father had hurt her […]
I hate that I can empathize with her now.
People on the outside of situations like these often wonder why the woman goes back to the abuser. I read somewhere once that 85 percent of women return to abusive situations. That was before I realized I was in one, and when I heard that statistic, I thought it was because the women were stupid.
[…] I love my husband, Ellen […] Preventing your heart from forgiving someone you love is actually a hell of a lot harder than simply forgiving them [...]
The things I’ve thought about women like me are now what others would think of me if they knew my current situation […]
I’m sad that those are the first thoughts that run through our minds when someone is abused. Shouldn’t there be more distaste in our mouths for abusers than for those who continue to love their abusers?
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Ellen DeGeneres Quotes in It Ends with Us
The It Ends with Us quotes below are all either spoken by Ellen DeGeneres or refer to Ellen DeGeneres. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 2
Quotes
I open the shoebox on my lap and pull out the contents. On the very top is a small wooden, hollow heart. I run my fingers over it and remember the night I was given this heart. As soon as the memory begins to sink in, I set it aside. Nostalgia is a funny thing.
I move a few old letters and newspaper clippings aside. Beneath all of it, I find what I was hoping was inside these boxes. And also sort of hoping wasn’t.
My Ellen Diaries.
Related Characters:
Related Symbols:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 25
Quotes
I don’t even know where to start. I know you don’t know anything about my current life or my husband, Ryle. But there’s this thing we do where one of us says “naked truth,” and then we’re forced to be brutally honest and say what we’re really thinking.
So…naked truth.
Brace yourself.
I am in love with a man who physically hurts me. Of all people, I have no idea how I let myself get to this point.
There were many times growing up I wondered what was going through my mother’s head in the days after my father had hurt her […]
I hate that I can empathize with her now.
People on the outside of situations like these often wonder why the woman goes back to the abuser. I read somewhere once that 85 percent of women return to abusive situations. That was before I realized I was in one, and when I heard that statistic, I thought it was because the women were stupid.
[…] I love my husband, Ellen […] Preventing your heart from forgiving someone you love is actually a hell of a lot harder than simply forgiving them [...]
The things I’ve thought about women like me are now what others would think of me if they knew my current situation […]
I’m sad that those are the first thoughts that run through our minds when someone is abused. Shouldn’t there be more distaste in our mouths for abusers than for those who continue to love their abusers?
