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"The grass isn't greener on the other side. It's greener where you water it. Care for her and let her care for you and I have ni doubt you two will flourish."

"You can't know if your path is the right one until you completely become The Fool. You have to take that blind step to see if you're walking on solid ground or if you're falling off a ledge. That's what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to be unsure. You're supposed to dare, not stand still. You risk. You take chances. You figure out how to live by living."

"In my bones, in my skin, in the particles of energy that make up my "soul," I feel like this connection has nothing to do with his skills and everything to do with Him and Me and no one else. As though I were special. As though we were bound by a gravitational pull. As though I were the Earth and he, the moon, and with his orbit he commanded the tidal waves of emotions and arousal within me."

"While he knew he was at the right place at the right time, he couldn't help but feel restless. The jadedness was catching up to him, what with all the bad news and the unbearableness of surviving in a world seemingly plummeting closer and closer to its doom every single day. He was stacking disasters on top of each other, building them like a house of cards hoping against hope it would not fall."

"Being underwater was the equivalent of being thrust into another world, alien and beyond comprehension. No matter how long she had been acquainted with the sea, she knew in her heart she would never truly know it. No matter how long or how extensively she studied it, no matter how deep her emotional connection to it, the ocean would always be a world away."

"This was hardly Phylle's first cruise, and where there was a threat of cabin fever, there was the potential for a Bonding Moment of a Lifetime. Or murder.

Whichever came first. Really, it was a coin toss."

"Men find it easier to believe they have been swindled by a witch than outwitted by a woman."

"For while the pious claim money doesn't buy happiness, I can attest from personal experience that poverty buys nothing."

"For this scribe has read a great many of these accounts and taken away another lesson: that to be a woman is to have your story misremembered. Discarded. Twister."

"But he was beginning to understand that the woman next to him was more like a mountain climber than an East Coast society matron. She saw a problem, sized it up, and then... walked over it. Or around it. Or through it, like a tiny battering ram."

"Hell could freeze over, someone said,
But we'll continue making these memories
Living our lives intertwined.
Woven from root to leaf tips,
Inseparable and unbroken."

"Into every life, she supposed, came an event to which one must simply surrender and live through."

"The world tries to break everyone," they said gently. "But sometimes when it fails, it fails spectacularly."

I waited until the trilogy was done before starting this!

"There was nothing safe; there were only gradations of exposure to danger."

"We are friends. That is predicated on the assumption that you enjoy my company, like I enjoy yours. If your definition of friendship differs, that is fine. I can still use mine."

His fingertips pressed together tightly, the tips whitening. "I'll ruin you. If Alexander doesn't do it first."

"Of course. You are my friend," I said gently. "I've given you that power."

"It's only a matter of time before they grab me. Even I know that. Maybe I make it to graduation. Maybe not. What I can do in the interim is what matters. And if I can secure the futures of everyone I love, then I will, first and foremost."
"And you should rely on those people to do the same."

I've been tempted to DNF several times because there's a lot of info dump in the first half of the book, and I feel like it could have been edited better. Very dense worldbuilding that gets confusing at times. I read a couple of reviews that said the first book isn't as strong as the rest of the series so I might just skim until the end and try to read the second book because that has a trope that I'm interested in.

I started reading this before bed and was up until 3am reading because I kept laughing at some of the scenes. How fun to have found a proper romcom read!