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"I want my life to be messy and ugly and wicked and wild and I want to feel it all. All those things that women are made to believe they are strange for harboring in their hearts and I want to surround myself with those same strange wicked women who throw themselves open to all the wondrous things the world has to offer."

"In the company of women like this, sharp edged as raw diamonds but with soft hands and hearts. Not strong in spite of anything, but powerful because of everything, I feel invincible."

"We are mountains, or perhaps temples with foundations that could outlast time itself."

"A reminder of the strange things the ocean grows. All the mysteries of the world we still don't know. Questions we haven't even thought to ask."

"This dangerous, gorgeous, wildfire of a woman." -Felicity thinking of Sim

"Just because you've never seen me cleaned up, doesn't mean I can't lean deeply into the princess part of my piracy." -Sim

I love the picture Sim paints of a possible future for the two of them.

No, not Percy!

I love how protective and dare I say, almost sweet, Monty has become over Felicity!

"But I am a wildflower and will stand against the gales. Rare and uncultivated. Difficult to find, impossible to forget."

Even if Platt doesn't marry Johanna, he's not likely going to let Felicity go, or did she already forget about his plans to extort her dad?!!

"I should've known I wasn't a forest fire, but a small flame that could be snuffed out easily by the first man who turned my way with a heavy breath. There is no winning for women in this world. I was foolish to think there ever could be for me."

Why didn't they just LISTEN to Sim & DESTROY the map! If Felicity had just let Sim take it in the first place & not led Platt straight to Johanna, when she so OBVIOUSLY didn't want him to know where she was, none of this would be happening! She let her ambition cloud her judgment.

Johanna clearly loves animals and yet even she thinks it's okay to sacrifice "a few" to better understand them. I highly doubt she'd feel the same way if someone asked her to sacrifice her dog Max for the same reason! I just can't justify animal cruelty for any reason.

"Men want to collect. To compete. To own."

"I do not need reasons to exist. I do not need to justify the space I take up
in this world. Not to myself or Platt or some hospital governors. Or a pirate ship full of men with cutlasses. I have as much claim to this world as anyone else."

"First of our name. First of our kind."

"Everyone has head stories of women like us, and now we will make more of them."

I feel like they should be HELPING Sim, not going behind her back!

"If I'm a cactus, she's a very argumentative rose bush and I've drawn my own blood again by reaching out." -Felicity 🌵🌹

"So if you can't win the game, you cheat. You operate outside the rules they've built to fence you in. You rob them in the dark while they're drunk on spirits you offered them. Poisoned their waters and drink only wine. It's
what Sybil Glass did." -Sim

"Felicity Montague, you are a cactus." -Sim
"Or maybe I'd be a flower, but a really tough flower." - Felicity
"A wildflower. The kind that are strong enough to stand against the wind. Rare and difficult to find and impossible to forget." -Sim 🌸