Randall

DND 35% thru, I would have ate this up in middle school but just not my type of book anymore

Second time reading this book and it's still 5/5

Angie tried not to think much about politics. It didn't seem to matter who was in power. Nothing got better in the besieged breathtaking world that she cared about. The Everglades would never be the Lush unbroken river it once was the shallows of Florida Bay would never be as pure and sparkling with fish. The bleach dying reefs of the keys would never fully blend back to life. Being overrun and exploited was the historical fate of places. So rare and beautiful... All the treasured wilderness that had been sacrificed at the altar of growth was gone for all time. More more disappeared everyday. Nothing ever changed except the speed of destruction and only because there were fewer pristine pieces to sell off, carve up and pave.

Fav quotes:

Ch 7: She and Kate had wanted to come here, to the Louvre. She and Kate had wanted to see the things everyone else saw, too, but with their own eyes. That was how art, how anything, became immortal. Becoming a still point in the universe, around which endless bodies revolved.

Ch 12: Her real teenage crushes had been on girls: not romantically but well- Okay, not sexually? Not very sexually. Her friendships, unlike her relationships with boys, had anniversaries and inside jokes, beginnings and endings so specific she could pin them not just to the day, but to the hour.

Ch 22: It was a bad world to bet on, but all her chips were already in.

"You may wake up one day and decide you want a bigger world."

"Savannah has a History so broad and so deep with their mother that hugging her and inhaling her familiar perfume is like getting Vivi back for a second."

"When you have a friend like Savannah Hamilton, you don't need anyone else."

"They'd emerged out of the dark, confusing tunnel Maze of mother-daughter relationships to discover that they liked each other and had fun hanging out."

"Eventually all three of them are going to have to learn to live without you. Martha says all the way without what you the summer is going to end Vivian summer always ends"

" He made a large mistake in leaving her but he will realize this only with time"

She will not succumb to self-pity tempting as it may be. She will buy a bigger house and spend whatever it takes to make it even warmer and cozier than the one she left she will be resilient. She will bounce back. She will be happier than ever before"

" Who knew that this is how Vivian Howe grew up? She always seemed like the quintessential mermaid to us raised by the ocean sun on her face salting her hair sand between her toes"

" In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer"