Verity

by Colleen Hoover

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.

had a boyfriend in my early twenties named Amos, who liked being choked. It’s why we broke up—because I refused to choke him.

“Why don’t they play poker in the jungle?” “I don’t know, why?” I say. “Too many cheetahs!”