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"No one tried to get involved with me, and I kept to myself. This was the place where everything was supposed to be safe and easy. How could Evan Mathews unravel my constant universe in just one day?" He knows there’s something more to the girl sitting in the back of the class the moment he... read more

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  • “Well let’s get you back to hell before the devil realizes you’re not home.”
    Sara
  • “I love that picture, he admitted softly. I think it's because I love the girl in that picture.”
    Evan
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  • In the balance of love and loss, it was love that made me struggle to… Breathe. 
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  • Now I was left holding the pieces of my heart, crushed by my own hands.
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  • Love helped me live life instead of just survive it. 
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  • Was it better to get as much out of the moment as possible, knowing it could slip out from under you in a second?  Was the actual experience better than the inevitable conclusion? 
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  • We were engaged in a very intricate dance of touching without touching, knowing without saying, and feeling without expressing.   We were friends walking along a ledge, a very thin ledge - and I was too caught up in my heightened awareness of his existence to realize how close the ledge was to crumbling beneath my feet.
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  • “I love that picture,” he admitted softly.  “I think it’s because I love the girl in that picture.”
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  • My world was delicately balanced, but the scales never hung even.  When something improved, something else had to crumble. 
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  • “I’m still in love with you,” he yelled from the top step.  I froze as the first tear rolled down my cheek.  “Please don’t walk away from me.”
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  • “Well, you intimidate most of the guys in the school, so you never get asked out.  The girls think you’re stuck up and that’s why your only friend is the most popular girl in school.  It’s assumed that no one else is good enough for you.” 
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  • I knew in that moment, I would never love anyone in my life the way I loved Evan Mathews.
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Breathe.

Table of Contents edit see section history

1. Nonexistent
2. First Impression
3. Distraction
4. Change
5. Fading
6. Different Planets
7. Repercussions
8. Bad Luck
9. Not a Date
10. Night Game
11. The Library
12. Bad Influence
13. Replaced
14. Hollow
15. Relentless
16. The Plan
17. Unexpected Visit
18. Another Dimension
19. Not Laughing
20. The Room
21. Just Friends
22. Revealed
23. Silence
24. Fallen
25. Inevitable
26. Broken
27. Warmth
28. The Truth
29. Flutter
30. Life of the Party
31. Noticed
32. The Question
33. Discovery
34. Paying Attention
35. Sabotaged
36. Dinner
37. Gifts
38. Shattered
39. Breathe
Epilogue

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This is book 1 of 3 in Breathing. (standard series)

Followed by Barely Breathing.

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  1. Rebecca Donovan (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Rebecca Donovan
Country: USA
Publication Date: May 9, 2011
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 393

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

Recommended for Ages 15+ due to violence, mature subject matter, profanity


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