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.

Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.

“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.”

You can’t look at someone the way he looked at me—with the entirety of his past—without also imagining the future.

Caring for your body is no different from caring for a child. Sometimes it’s hard, sometimes it sucks, sometimes you just want to give in, but if you do, you’ll pay for the consequences eighteen years down the road.

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.