Rai (is hard to please)’s Reviews > Hook, Line, and Sinker > Status Update

“And yet, on the verge of what felt like true adulthood, they’d both been scared. But they’d been scared together.”

“I didn’t know what right felt like until you.”

“Losing the love of his life—his future—because he’d let the past win.”

“Maybe, like the ocean, he could evolve.”

“You can’t live life worrying about what people will think. You’ll wake up one day, look at a calendar, and count the days you could have spent being happy. With her. And no one else, especially the ones wagging their tongues, are going to be there to console you.”

“You can’t take the bad lessons you learned and apply them to every good thing that comes your way.”

“What if she just stayed and stayed and stayed, so he could wake up every morning and feel fucking substantial and alive, the way he’d done today?”

What if, indeed.

“He should have known that the second she was awake, looking at him, everything would be all right.
I’ll just talk to her.
Problem solved.”

YES. Yes, that’s exactly what you should do. Amen.

“Apparently, opening up meant getting more in return. Considering he’d never get enough of Hannah, being honest was definitely the way to go.”

“I don’t know what trying looks like for us. I just know that I want to.”
“Oh, Fox,” she whispered, bringing them chest to chest and pressing close, laying a cool palm against his cheek. “We’ve been trying this whole time.”