Randall
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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.
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"all I know is that I found out heaven was real first. I'd hang back in the waiting room and save you a seat"
"Time does that I suppose. When you spend so much of it looking forward to the next thing, it can easily slip out from under you"
"I think it's arrogant to think the stars and moon can effect the tides but not have an effect on me. Some things are just more powerful than we are."
"I showed you that I didn't need a romantic partner in life because I knew it was the safest bet, relying on myself and no one else. But even I had to ask for help from people sometimes... And no I didn't lack for a full life without romance but I had my heart broken one too many times and had all my decisions based on fear of it again"
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"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"
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.
"Our parting hurt so acutely I realize not because we thought the geography was insurmountable or that the Christmas break was so far away. But because we didn't know the people we are about to change into, maybe we wouldn't be friends anymore or not close ones. What if everyone returned being all had such a great time and behaving subtly differently to make a clear priorities and intimacies had shifted acting like things were the same. But there was a new distance around each of us like castles with moats name dropping strangers with whom we'd forwarded mysterious exciting and inpenetrable new alliances. Nothing held the same power and mystique that the unknown did"
