"He was trying to propose marriage and she thought he was talking about a poem he was writing. I was laughing like a very quiet fiend, trying not to make the branches around me shake, and then, between one heartbeat and the next, and to my complete surprise, it wasn't funny anymore."

Oh, it is? I was sitting there looking at that going...uhh...did Jade just make that up, cuz that's pretty darn good? LOL
I swear, I need my car NOWNOWNOW

And I kind of want Eddis and Attolia to be BFFs as well. They are so different and they had that mutual hate thing going on for a while, but that comforting moment between them (and the one you mention from QoA) just makes me love them that much more.
YESYESYESYES!!