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"What I can tell you is that if it isn't fine, if the worst happens, you'll wake up the next day and the day after that...and that's not nothing."

"He gave me a book to give her, said that was the way to any woman's heart worth having."

"Isabel tried to breathe through the misery of holding someone else's hurt within oneself."

"Have you always been like this? Have you just been waiting to happen?"

"How quickly did the belly of despair turn itself over into hope."

"Foolish to hope. But how does one go on not hoping?"

"Survival is victory. Maybe you think you don't deserve it or maybe you're beating yourself up for fighting back because that's how the world tells women to feel when they take charge of their fates. You aren't disposable. You don't owe anyone anything. No one else was looking out for you that day. Your last best hope was you."

"And of course no one should ever confuse being nice with being a good person."

Okay, despite my previous grumblings (and they're still valid)...I'm becoming invested now.

"Not everyone is psychologically capable of entering such a space." ...oh, ya think?

Let me get this straight.... We have one best friend who somehow convinced the anxiety-ridden one to go caving and is insufferably joking about ways to die. And the other best friend has been secretly stalking around in the other one's apartment for no apparent reason. ....ladies, I don't know what you two are exactly but you are definitely not best friends.

It's too early in the book to be finding fault, but I am. Girl, you have generalized anxiety disorder and you barely made it to check your house before you left (I am not making fun; I can relate!)...you have NO business going into a cave. None.
(Also, how the HELL is a cave a "controlled environment"??)

"...especially in a controlled environment like a cave." Excuse me. What?

"You could offer the heart all the instruction you wanted. The heart was often hard of hearing."

"Maybe therapy, like so many things worth doing, hurts when you first start."

Me, for 60% of this book: "Why am I reading this? Why is there so much smut? (How is it possible to have this much smut in one book?!) Why can't I stop reading this stupid thing?"

Me, during the last 30% when they've caught actual feelings: Beaming like an idiot and snorting with giddy laughter. 😍😁

"She suspected that some sort of law required wisdom and loss to be partners. At least they always seemed to ride together."

"When it came to not talking, she could outlast anyone. And she felt more comfortable with stillness than conversation."

"Sometimes it seemed as if the world itself was broken, that there was something wrong with all of us, something broken in such a way that it might not be put together again. But the holding of hands, human hand in human hand, could help."