Verity

by Colleen Hoover

Here, I’m invisible. Unimportant. Manhattan is too crowded to give a shit about me, and I love her for it.

It’s what you do when you’ve experienced the worst of the worst. You seek out people like you…people worse off than you…and you use them to make yourself feel better about the terrible things that have happened to you.

I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me.

“Some families are lucky enough to never experience a single tragedy. But then there are those families that seem to have tragedies waiting on the back burner. What can go wrong, goes wrong. And then gets worse.”

houses have a soul,

“Find what you love and let it kill you.” - Charles Bukowski

The good thing about sins is they don’t have to be atoned for immediately,

It was amazing how different sex felt when a person used more than their body. I involved my heart and my gut and my mind and my hope. I fell in that moment. Not in love. I just…

And that’s what love at first sight is. It isn’t really love at first sight until you’ve been with the person long enough for it to become love at first sight.

“Petrichor.”

“It’s a word that describes the smell of fresh rain after warm weather.”

antagonistic journaling

It’s natural, to assume the worst in people, even if that assumption is only for a split second.