He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then he tried to lift my bag. "My God," he said. "What happened?" "I found out one may check out twenty books at a time from the school library.

A Certain Slant of Light (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005) - ISBN: 9780547349138