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“I had to be strong if I wanted anything beyond that love. I wanted respect, you know? I wanted them to care. But it wasn’t until I met you that I realized love could be strength as well. My love for my family never made me stronger . . . it only made me want to be stronger.”

“A tree can only be as strong as the forrest that surrounds it.”

😭😭😭 This is ripping my heart out and then some.

I’m so nervous!!!

I have to say I'm really ready for Darius to ditch Landon. Book title is on point.

Lilly deserves way better than this chump.

I really hate her mother. Really really. This kind of spiritual abuse is hard for me to read about so I just keep taking my time with this story. But it is super well written.

That escalated quickly. Too quickly.

I will crush anyone who makes Ryan Price said.

Only! One! Bed!

Bri has a wee bit of a death wish. Eep!

This book is really truly blowing me away. Completely enthralled.

I can’t believe he just did that. 😂😂😂

I’m supposed to believe two men in their mid-20s believe the best way to recruit book club members is by passing out flyers?!?! I wouldn’t even do that as a 40 year old woman.

"Being a romantic means choosing to see the world as ordered by a central force, or around a central person. And for someone who's romantic, it's maybe harder to acknowledge data that doesn't fit with the fantasy view you have, even if that fantasy's just hope."

It me.

Gahhhhhh Alfie!!!! What are you doing?!?!

Never cheered so hard for a whale.

I don’t know if I’ve ever read a heroine who is worse at her job than this supposed bodyguard. 😳

"Humans think that what is seen is all that is. That what is spoken is all that is said. But wolves know that life happens in the very crowded spaces between what is seen and what is spoken."

"Our land is where my wolves wait for my own call. I try to clear the heartache in my throat then throw back my head and howl,
Where are you?
It starts out that way, though by the end of that long breath, it is simply Are you?
And from across the vastness of Homelands, the Great North call back.
We are, they answer, each voice reassuring me that all are safe and accounted for."

Phew, Maria Vale can write.

10 chapters to go! We...still haven’t seen Moby Dick. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I love this story so much, in part because it’s set in 1989-1990 when I was 9/10 years old. The characters are 17 so we had different experiences and it’s giving me a new way to relive that time.

This is devastating. 😭

Emphasis on the enemies in enemies to lovers.

Furious with this judge all over again.

"As a queen, you do not cry when you are in pain, and I will not ask you to," Maddek said to her in a low voice. "But if you wish to be a warrior, you must tell us when you have been wounded. A warrior has the duty and the honor of tending to a fellow warrior's injuries, just as you have tended to Toric. Do not deny us the honor of tending to you."

This strikes me as so wise.

"Anything good in this country has to be wrestled free."

"For Maddek was truly a great warrior, finding vulnerabilities Yvenne had not known she possessed. He could even make weapons of her sighs, transform her longing into a blade, and use them to slice through her heart.
A great warrior indeed."

Gahhhh THIS BOOK!!!

"Scars are but stories for a warrior to tell. Just as the smiling lines on that woman's face are."