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 Iām 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 OliverIs this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is different--it is being alive.
Lauren OliverMost of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.
Lauren Oliver