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1 " Find what you love and let it kill you. "
― Colleen Hoover , Verity
2 " The world was her manuscript. No surface was safe. "
3 " But there is no light where we're going. This is your final warning.Darkness ahead. "
4 " I can't explain the mind of a writer to you, Jeremy. Especially the mind of a writer who has been through more devastation than most writers combined. "
5 " I don't want to call him an asshole. He's a little kid, and he's been through a lot. But I think he might be an asshole. "
6 " I was difficult. An emotionally challenging puzzle he wasn’t up for solving.Which was fine. I wasn’t in the mood to be solved "
7 " An autobiography encouraging the reader to like the author is not a true autobiography. No one is likable from the inside out. "
8 " I was difficult. An emotionally challenging puzzle he wasn't up for solving.Which was fine. I wasn't in the mood to be solved. "
9 " 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. "
10 " No one is likeable from the out. "
11 " Why did you tell Crew to hold his breath, Verity?' That's the moment I knew it was over. That's the moment he knew it was over.'. "
12 " What?”“It’s good.”I didn’t respond.“Really good. I am so proud of you.”I smiled.It was my first taste of what it felt like for a reader to enjoy what I had created for them. That one comment—that sweet, simple comment—made me want him to finish reading it. "
13 " Petrichor - The word that describes the smell of fresh rain after warm weather. "
14 " No one is likable from the inside out. "
15 " Llevé la luz a su oscuridad, y seguiré siendo esa luz para que nunca se pierda en las sombras de su pasado "
16 " I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me. "
17 " I wasn’t heroic. I wasn’t simple. I was difficult. An emotionally challenging puzzle he wasn’t up for solving. "
18 " What you read will taste so bad at times, you’ll want to spit it out, but you’ll swallow these words and they will become part of you, part of your gut, and you will hurt because of them. "
19 " 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. "
20 " I stretch truths where I see fit. I’m a writer. "
