“Don't swallow: your bulging, blushing cheeks display the saliva you want to share.”
“You just mingled saliva with the most beautiful boy ever to tread the hallways of Saint Pock's. Saliva. There's DNA in saliva. You're like carrying his cells in your mouth like one of those weird frogs that incubates its eggs in its cheeks”
“Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.”
“Don't bitch about the clothes that you try on. Blush all you want--""What makes you think I'll blush?""If you don't, we won't take them.”
“Saige, Mother is . . .” I briefly close my eyes and swallow, clearing my mouth from saliva. “Mother is dead.”
“On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart”