Verity by Colleen Hoover is a gripping story about a struggling writer named Lowen Ashleigh.
Lowen accepts a job offer to complete the remaining books in a series for bestselling author Verity Crawford.
When Lowen delves into the chaotic office, she discovers Verity’s unfinished autobiography, containing bone-chilling admissions about a night that changed her family forever.
Lowen must decide whether or not to keep Verity’s secret from her husband, Jeremy, and face a dilemma as her feelings for Jeremy intensify.
Verity Quotes With Page Numbers And Who Said Them
“I hear the crack of his skull before the spattering of blood reaches me.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 1, Page 1
“Death by routine”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 1, Page 1
“Here, I’m invisible. Unimportant. Manhattan is too crowded to give a shit about me, and I love her for it.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 1, Page 3
“but at least it wasn’t my skull that exploded on someone else’s shirt. Silver lining.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 1, Page 6
“Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 1, Page 7
“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.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 1, Page 8
It Ends With Us Quotes With Page Numbers
“I’ve heard of Resting Bitch Face, but I relate more to Resting Bored Face.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 2, Page 16
“I wasn’t heroic. I wasn’t simple. I was difficult. An emotionally challenging puzzle he wasn’t up for solving.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 2, Page 21
“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”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 2, Page 21
“And that’s why I stay at home and write. I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 2, Page 25
“Have you ever heard of people referred to as Chronics?” he asks. I shake my head. “I think Verity might have made up the term. After our daughters died, she said we were Chronics. Prone to chronic tragedy. One terrible thing”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Jeremy, Chapter 2, Page 31
“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.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 2, Page 31
“I find that comforting—that being alone with me in the room still feels like being alone to him.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 2, Page 31
“If this bitch turned off that…television, I’m walking out that front door without shoes on and I’m never coming back.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 18, Page 33
“Don’t focus on why you’re playing the game. Just focus on the finish line.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Cory, Chapter 3, Page 36
“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.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 4, Page 41
“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.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 4, Page 44
“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.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 4, Page 46
“The world was her manuscript. No surface was safe.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 4, Page 55
It Starts With Us Quotes With Page Numbers
Quotes From Verity (So Be It)
“No one is likable from the inside out.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, So Be It, Page 61
“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.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, So Be It, Page 61
“One should only walk away from an autobiography with, at best, an uncomfortable distaste for its author.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, So Be It, Page 61
“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.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, So Be It, Page 61
“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
Charles Bukowski~Colleen Hoover, Verity, So Be It, Page 63
“The good thing about sins is they don’t have to be atoned for immediately,”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, So Be It, Page 64
“I stretch truths where I see fit. I’m a writer.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, So Be It, Page 68
“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.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, So Be It, Page 71
“You can’t look at someone the way he looked at me—with the entirety of his past—without also imagining the future.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, So Be It, (Chapter one), Page 71
“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.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, So Be It, (Chapter one), Page 71
“He stared down at me, our mouths thisclose, and I could swear he was already imagining what life with me would be like. You can’t look at someone the way he looked at me—with the entirety of his past—without also imagining the future.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, So Be It, (Chapter one), Page 71
“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.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, So Be It, (Chapter One), Page 72
“It was as if I’d been standing on the edge of a cliff my whole life, and finally, after meeting Jeremy, I felt confident enough to jump. Because—for the first time in my life—I felt confident that I wouldn’t land. I would keep flying.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, So Be It, (Chapter one), Page 72
“With every day that passed, that first night with him was further validated. 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.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, So Be It, (Chapter one), Page 73
“when a person finds someone who makes all the negativity in their lives disappear, it’s hard not to feed off that person.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, So Be It, (Chapter two), Page 83
“Those were thoughts I couldn’t admit to him, of course. I might have been obsessed with him, but a woman knows if she wants to keep a man forever, she has to act like she could get over him in a day.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, So Be It, (Chapter two), Page 85
“But there is no light where we’re going. This is your final warning.
Darkness ahead.”~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, So Be It, (Chapter two), Page 90
“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.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, So Be It, (Chapter three), Page 104
“I wanted him to panic, to worry, to feel bad for me, to cry for me. To cry for me.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, So Be It, (Chapter three), Page 110
“the things lurking around inside the mind can be just as dangerous as tangible threats.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 11, Page 150
“One more chapter and I’ll stop. That’s it.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 14, Page 182
“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.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 15, Page 194
“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.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 15, Page 194
“Your writing matters to me, Lowen.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh (hypothetical), Chapter 15, Page 198
“I was good at spewing bullshit. It’s why I became a writer.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, So Be It, (Chapter nine), Page 206
“As much as I try to forget where it all started to go wrong, I was cursed with this mind that never forgets a single thing.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, Chapter 24, Page 297
“And that’s how easy it is for a writer to pretend to be someone they aren’t.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, Chapter 24, Page 299
“It’s natural, to assume the worst in people, even if that assumption is only for a split second.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 24, Page 302
“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.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 24, Page 303
“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.”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Verity Crawford, Chapter 24, Page 303
“No matter which way I look at it, it’s clear that Verity was a master at manipulating the truth. The only question that remains is: Which truth was she manipulating?”
~Colleen Hoover, Verity, Lowen Ashleigh, Chapter 25, Page 314
Find what you love and let it kill you verity page number
This quote is on page 63 of Verity.
I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me page number
This quote is on page 25, chapter 2 of Verity.
No one is likable from the inside out page number
This quote is on page 61 of Verity.