But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.
Lauren OliverThe ideaโthe fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one secondโis huge and overwhelming, makes my legs go tingly and my hands feel numb.
Lauren OliverLove: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.
Lauren Oliver