Verity

by Colleen Hoover

The state of my life is irrelevant in a place this size. There are far more people here with stories much more pitiful than mine.

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

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.

It was convenient until it wasn’t. But the reason our actual relationship was so short-lived is because he was in love with another woman. Never mind that the other woman in our relationship was also me.

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.

the things lurking around inside the mind can be just as dangerous as tangible threats.

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.