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21 " Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide. "
― Colleen Hoover , Verity
22 " The good thing about sins is they don’t have to be atoned for immediately, "
23 " I was good at spewing bullshit. It's why I became a writer. "
24 " It’s natural, to assume the worst in people, even if that assumption is only for a split second "
25 " the things lurking around inside the mind can be just as dangerous as tangible threats. "
26 " One should only walk away from an autobiography with, at best, an uncomfortable distaste for its author. "
27 " 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. "
28 " I needed for the imaginary version of my world to be darker than my real world. Otherwise, I would have wanted to leave them both. "
29 " The kiss was full of both desire and respect—two things a lot of men didn’t seem to know could go hand in hand. "
30 " Take care of your physical being. Feed it what it needs, not what the conscience tells you it wants. Giving in to cravings of the mind that ultimately hurt the body is like a weak parent giving in to her child. “Oh, you had a bad day? Do you want an entire box of cookies? Okay, sweetie. Eat it. And drink this soda while you’re at it.” 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. "
31 " If we were friends, I would do something to comfort him. Maybe grab his hand and hold it. But there’s too much inside me that wants to be more than his friend, which means we can’t be friends at all. 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. "
32 " 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. "
33 " Your writing matters to me, Lowen. "
34 " My mother used to say that houses have a soul, and if that is true, the soul of Verity Crawford’s house is as dark as they come. "
35 " Here, I’m invisible. Unimportant. Manhattan is too crowded to give a shit about me, and I love her for it. "
36 " It was amazing how different sex felt when a person used more than their body. I involved my heart and my gut and my mind and my hope. I fell in that moment. Not in love. I just…fell. "
37 " And that’s how easy it is for a writer to pretend to be someone they aren’t. "
38 " And that’s why I stay at home and write. I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me. "
39 " I’m the awkward writer who posts a picture of my book and says, “It’s an okay book. There are words in it. Read it if you want. "
40 " I wanted him to panic, to worry, to feel bad for me, to cry for me. To cry for me. "