Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.
Lauren OliverThis is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything elseโevery single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kissโhas meant nothing.
Lauren OliverIt's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.
Lauren OliverThis was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass.
Lauren OliverAs 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 Oliver