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A writer should never have the audacity to write about themselves unless they’re willing to separate every layer of protection between the author’s soul and their book.
The words should come directly from the center of the gut, tearing through flesh and bone as they break free. Ugly and honest and bloody and a little bit terrifying, but completely exposed. An autobiography encouraging the reader to like the author is not a true autobiography. No one is likable from the inside out. One should only walk away from an autobiography with, at best, an uncomfortable distaste for its author.
You can’t look at someone the way he looked at me—with the entirety of his past—without also imagining the future.
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.
But if there’s one thing I know that Jeremy doesn’t…it’s that he doesn’t know Verity at all.