“Lukio was no longer the boy he’d been, but neither was I the same girl, so it did no good to wish away the chasm between us. It was just as immovable as the mountain I’d grown up on and as deep as the valley I’d walked since he’d left Kiryat-Yearim.” Biblical FictionConnilyn CossetteBetween The Wild Branches Book:Between the Wild Branches Source: Between the Wild Branches
“I nodded and pulled out of his hold, instantly feeling chilled at the loss of his nearness and my throat aching from the urge to weep. But I forced myself to walk away, leaving him alone on the terrace with a broken shell and all my futile longings for what might have been.” Biblical FictionBetween The Wild BranchesConnilyn Cassette Book:Between the Wild Branches Source: Between the Wild Branches