I was an empty shell. Like a vacant houseโcondemnedโfor months I'd been utterly uninhabitable. Now I was a little improved. The front room was in better repair. But that was allโjust the one small piece. He deserved better than thatโbetter than a one-room, falling-down fixer-upper. No amount of investment on his part could put me back in working order.
Stephenie MeyerThe bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine.
Stephenie Meyer