Verity Quotes

“The world was her manuscript. No surface was safe.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“Careless talk costs lives.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“The greatest thing is to have someone who loves you and—and to love in return.”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark

“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

“Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wouldn't have gone off and blown us both into the same crater, or that God himself wouldn't have come along and knocked our heads together in a flash of green sunlight. But it wouldn't have been likely.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Kiss me, Hardy!’ Weren’t those Nelson’s last words at the Battle of Trafalgar? Don’t cry. We’re still alive and we make a sensational team.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“If Verity's sins were knives, quick and vicious, then Prosperity's were poison. Slow, insidious, but just as deadly.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“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

“But there is no light where we're going. This is your final warning.
Darkness ahead.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“You can't understand beauty without peace of mind and you can't get close to the truth without fear.”
― Hassan Blasim, The Iraqi Christ

“That was Verity's way. MOnths had passed since we had last spoken but he took no times for greetings. Chade said it was a lack in him, that he didn't make his men feel their importance to him. I think he believed that if anything significant had happened to me, someone would have told him. He had a bluff heartiness to him that I enjoyed, an attitude that things must be going well unless someone ahd told him otherwise.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.”
― Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural

“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.'.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“I learned very early on that a human is not merely comprised of only one thing. We are two parts that make up the whole.
We have our conscious, which includes our mind, our soul, and all the intangible parts.
And we have our physical being, which is the machine that our conscious relies on for survival.
If you fuck with the machine, you will die. If you neglect the machine, you will die. If you assume your conscious can outlive the machine, you will die shortly after learning you were wrong.
It's very simple, really. 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

“And that's how easy it is for a writer to pretend to be someone they aren't.”
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“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

“Verity: thirty seconds it lasted, green sunlight breaking the cloud on the horizon. Then the light winked out below the haze again and all three pilots were left blinded in the dull gloom of a showery autumn afternoon.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“Verity: The Puss Moth's lovely engine (this is Maddie talking; she is a bit mad) had only HALF THE POWER of Maddie's motorbike. They were cleaning the bits of turf out of it with wirebrushes.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“Your writing is going to make you famous. Your mind is incredible. If I could fuck it, I would.”
― Colleen Hoover

“Lo bueno que tienen los pecados es que no hace falta redimirlos de inmediato.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“Las cosas que acechan en la mente pueden ser tan peligrosas como las amenazas más tangibles.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“I love you. Even still.

Verity”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity