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Persuasion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #2) QUOTES

Persuasion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #2) QUOTES

1 " Dreams shape the kind of human beings we become. Not having a dream gave me a smaller future and made me a smaller person. "

― Martina Boone , Persuasion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #2)

2 " It took vulnerability to forge strength, the way true courage required fear. "

― Martina Boone , Persuasion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #2)

3 " It occurred to her that all the bad parts of life, the sad parts, the frightening ones, were meant to be offset by moments and memories like this. She had to be present in it, right here, right now. "

― Martina Boone , Persuasion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #2)

4 " Barrie wanted to fall into him, her lost to his found, her need to his want. Kissing was like the physical form of magic, all potential and the sense that anything might happen. When she was kissing Eight, she felt like she could fly. "

― Martina Boone , Persuasion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #2)

5 " So many of the things she had found lately hadn't been precisely lost. But she wasn't found without them. "

― Martina Boone , Persuasion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #2)

6 " Perceptions were fickle things, as formless as smoke and just as dangerous. "

― Martina Boone , Persuasion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #2)

7 " You're torn between wanting to be closer and wanting to push me away," he said. "So I vote for closer. I'll always vote for closer. "

― Martina Boone , Persuasion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #2)

8 " I’ve been out with enough girls to know what I want. I know. You and me together? We’re not the same plain vanilla let’s-date-while-we’re-in-high-school, let’s-go-to-prom, let’s-promise-we’ll-talk-in-college relationship. We’re more like those fireworks on the Fourth of July that keep exploding with new bursts every time they’re done. Before we know it, we’ll be in rocking chairs side by side on the porch, holding hands and watching a houseful of great grandchildren chasing blue ghost fireflies on the lawn. "

― Martina Boone , Persuasion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #2)

9 " You have no idea what you do to me,” he said, his voice so deliciously rough it left her dazed. “I can barely remember my own name when you touch me, but at the same time, you make me think. You make me better. When I’m with you, for the first time in my life, I feel like someone sees me and thinks that I’m enough. "

― Martina Boone , Persuasion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #2)

10 " even if the chandelier wasn’t brain surgery or even art, it was something. Making a place more beautiful was always something. "

― Martina Boone , Persuasion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #2)

11 " What kind of a chance would she and Eight ever have with secrets between them? Without honesty? Without trust. "

― Martina Boone , Persuasion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #2)