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“Dads are like that,” she said softly. “They’re the first kings we know, for better or worse.”
–Alice Storm

“You don’t like Picasso?”
“Cultural appropriation, hypermasculinity, misogyny… what’s not to like?”

“But your mistake is believing that love is an inherently good thing all the time.” –Alice Storm

‘Responsibility. She’s been raised on it—loyalty to family first, above all. No matter their selfishness, their chaos, their manipulation.
No matter the way they broke her down.
Responsibility was to others. Never to herself.’

“There are honest-to-God problems in the world. And here we are with an island full of people who can solve most of them. And they collect flags and lie about the Beatles.” –Gabi

‘It was a bad idea. But history was littered with women making bad decisions about men.’

“It’s always worth leaving when someone doesn’t want you to stay.” –Alice Storm

‘Wealth had a way about it, an ease that was difficult to explain but impossible not to recognize, especially if you’d spent your life around it. Though it came in many forms, from confidence to carelessness, it pervaded a person’s world view, was impossible to replicate, and incredibly difficult to hide.’

‘That was the problem, wasn’t it? Her father was incredibly easy to fall in love with, and impossible to love.
And easy to please if you weren’t his daughter.’