Legendary (Caraval, #2)

by Stephanie Garber

she’d grown, and kissed enough boys to realize that no kiss could be worth dying for,

There were shipwrecks more graceful than Tella.

Felt 🫠

Tella might have been many things, but she was far from silly or worthless or whatever labels people liked to affix because a person was young and female. Tella liked to think that was where much of her strength came from. She was bold. She was brave. She was cunning. And she was going to come out of this triumphant—no matter the cost.

And Paradise wanted adventures far more than she desired love.

Unfortunately Tella wasn’t the sort of girl people saved—she was the one they left behind. But she was also the sort they underestimated.

“If my mother had been a kinder or better person, I might have turned out good, and everyone knows how boring it is to be good.”

she didn’t want love—she liked to say love trapped and controlled and ripped hearts apart. But the truth was she also knew love healed and held people together, and deep down she wanted it more than anything.

“Not everyone gets a true ending. There are two types of endings because most people give up at the part of the story where things are the worst, where the situation feels hopeless. But that’s when hope is needed most. Only those who persevere can find their true ending.”