The Host (The Host, #1)

by Stephenie Meyer

There was no bond greater than one that required your life for another’s. I’d understood this truth before; what I had not understood was why. Now I knew why a mother would give her life for her child, and this knowledge would forever shape the way I saw the universe.

“I love you, Gladdie. I’ve loved you my whole life long.”

“Jared is my past, another life. You are my present.”