It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.

And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.

It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.

No one had ever said anything like that to Evie. Her parents always wanted to advise or instruct or command. They were good people, but they needed the world to bend to them, to fit into their order of things. Evie had never really quite fit, and when she tried, she’d just pop back out, like a doll squeezed into a too-small box.