As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though Iโm looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time between the opening and closing of the shutter.
Lauren OliverWhen you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you're happy and it's easy.
Lauren OliverMy former people were not totally wrong. Love is a kind of possession. Itโs a poison. And if Alex no longer loves me, I canโt bear to think that he might love somebody else.
Lauren Oliver