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“Marie, you are the sine to my cosine.”
My eyelashes fluttered and so did my heart, but I managed to tease, “Are you saying we’ll never be on the same wavelength?”
He moved his head to the side as though considering my words. “More like, we complement each other. In basic trigonometry terms, cosine is the sine of the complementary or co-angle.”
“I took trigonometry in high school. All I remember is pi r squared.”
“I would argue that pie are round, but whatever gives you a right angle.” He shrugged.
I laughed, even though the joke was painfully punny, and my hopes took his words as permission to start the countdown clock on their evil little space rocket.”
― Penny Reid, Dating-ish

“You’re the one who has to live your life. Don’t apologize to other people for the decisions you make for yourself.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“But she was a woman. A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“Forget men and romance. The answer to my aching loneliness would be all the cats.”
― Penny Reid, Dating-ish