Vera Jane Cook

“Daddy says that one day all I'll think about is people I used to know.”

“the good news is we usually make all our mistakes when we're young, the bad news is that they bury us when we're old”

“Clarissa remembered why she didn't like him, he was astucious, an ambiguous villain in a gentleman's three piece suit.”

“Insinuation is not truth, just conjecture”

“That sounds like Chloe, she appeased people to keep them from getting upset. To Chloe, lies held purpose”

“I live in a world of lies, I might as well learn early that lies come with the territory. You befriend people, you grow up and marry, you work and you lie to everyone, your boss, your spouse...”

“age is the ambrosia waiting to be sipped, the compliment hiding in the wings, waiting to be given to that which is too young today to value the character it will have tomorrow.”

“I should have seen his weaknesses and only given him a section of myself but I loved him to my core, no matter who he was. There were no hidden places in my heart that would not welcome him...”