Ranger (Reynolds Protective, #4)

by Rebecca Sharp

“There are no experts on loving, Ranger. Just people brave enough to try.”

being with her made me feel like I had so much to learn—so much more to grow. To experience. Being with her made me feel like I had so much more to live.

It was easier to believe I was hard to love than it was to accept that it was hard to love. It was hard to choose vulnerability and uncertainty and irrationality over everything else.

“The observer effect is the phenomenon where an object changes—is altered simply because something or someone is watching it,” he murmured rapidly. “From the moment you got here… the moment you first looked at me, Sydney, you changed me simply because you saw me. Not just who I was but who I wanted to be. Every molecule of every cell. Every thought and fact. Every feeling. And I don’t want to go back. The person I’m meant to be is the person I am when I’m with you.”

“According to Einstein, time is relative—a measurement affected by gravity. And in the eleven weeks, six days, nineteen hours and thirty-six minutes since I met you, I’ve never fallen so hard, yet my feet haven’t left the ground. The only conclusion is that gravity has changed because you’re around, and therefore time has, too.”

I’d always perceived love as this amorphous emotion, something I wanted, but I was never sure how I’d be able to understand it enough to hold on to it. But it wasn’t. It was concrete. It was as strong as gravity. As swift as lightning. As warm as the sun and as enduring as time. It was an equation made of variables of touch and taste, conversation and connection, but it was one that wasn’t meant to be solved; it was meant to be lived.

happy endings were only for books. In real life, love was only ever the start of happy beginnings.

“Love finds you whether you’re ready for it or not.”