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“I had a rule that it was better to be bored by yourself than to be bored with someone else. I pretty much lived by that rule. Maybe that's why I didn't have any friends.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I leave behind a wake of splintered wood and broken buildings and scared, know-nothing boys.”
― Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea

“He left bloody fingerprints on the rock, but there was something satisfying about that.
I was here. I exist. I’m alive, because I bleed.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“To the wreck hunters," Orion said, raising his water bottle, "And to whale songs."

"To truthing," said Liv.

"To tea leaves," said Felix.

We kept toasting: To Fidelia and Ransome. To the rest of the Lyric passengers whose bones has been picked clean by fish. To adventures. Our voices overlapped and were indistinguishable. To baseball caps, to Patsy Cline. To whiskey and blow jobs and cunnilingus, birth control, treasure, no treasure, sleeping bags, bug spray, headphones, and crosswords.

"To family," I called.

"Surviving," said Sam.

"Please can you keep it down!" yelled a voice from inside the kayakers' tent.

"To angry, reluctant chaperones," Mariah stage-whispered.

We all collapsed into stifled giggles, then put out the fire and trekked down to the beach to stage an impromtu, perfectly imperfect reading of Cousteau! by cell-phone light. Same had brought the latest printout of the script with him.

That night, it didn't matter what had come before and what was going to come after. In that moment, we were the last true poets of the sea, and what mattered more than anything else was our quest.”
― Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea