“He kisses me once more, on my forehead this time, and then he’s gone. And I know I am young, and fairly inexperienced where men are concerned, but I am positive that even when I am 90 years old I’ll still remember exactly what it feels like to have his lips on my skin.”
“Brody is the toy that all the other kids want to own, so obviously Selah wants to be the one to lock him down. He’s a fill-in-the-blank... it could be a purse, a car, a trip, a new pair of shoes. She’s constantly in pursuit of shiny things, and well, he is very shiny.”