“Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.”
“Mistletoe," said Kian, leading me to a spot in the center of the garden. He kissed me softly. "I hear it means something in your world.”
“Bailing the center of a spot and not having an embankment is not the only way to flirt. So soon, so left without a spoon, so august and so strange and taller than every other, it is not astonishing that someone is older.”
“A kid under a tablecloth insists he’s a ghost. A tableunderneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us,only pretending to be invisible.”
“[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.”
“The greatest source of security our children have in this world is a God-honoring, Christ-centered marriage between their parents.”