Verity

by Colleen Hoover

I wasn’t heroic. I wasn’t simple. I was difficult. An emotionally challenging puzzle he wasn’t up for solving.

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

A terrible sex life is like a virus. Your marriage can be healthy in all other aspects, but once the sex dies out, it starts to infect all the other parts of your relationship. I was determined not to let that happen to us.

Psychopaths find it more difficult to fall in love, and if they do, it’s difficult for them to retain that love. They tend to move on quickly from one person to the next.

It was like my family existed in a snow globe. Inside, everything was cozy and perfect, but I wasn’t a part of them; I was just an outsider looking in.

Was this what it felt like to be a mother? To love something so much, the thought of it being ripped away from you causes physical pain?

If an attraction is present between two people, those two people can only be one of two things. Involved or not involved. There is no in-between.

He makes me feel safe from the things he doesn’t even realize are dangerous.