You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of.

We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.

He frowns. "A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?

They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling. God help us all.

If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God.

Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of ‘them’ & widen the circle of ‘us.

If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.