Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Top 10 Best Quotes
“How were you supposed to change- in ways both big and small- when your family was always there to remind you of exactly the person you apparently signed an ironclad contract to be?”
“Nina understood, maybe for the first time, that letting people love you and care for you is part of how you love and care for them.”
“Family is found...whether it be blood or circumstance or choice, what binds us does not matter. All that matters is that we are bound.”
“Our family histories are simply stories. They are myths we create about the people who came before us, in order to make sense of ourselves.”
“Just because it is in Malibu's nature to burn, so was it in one particular person's nature to set fire and walk away.”
“She had to choose what, of the things she inherited from the people who came before her, she wanted to bring forward. And what, of the past, she wanted to leave behind.”
“Must be nice. To be able to be weak. I wouldn’t know.”
“She was a woman, after all. Living in a world created by men. And she had long known that assholes protect their own. They are faithful to no one but surprisingly protective of each other.”
“Maybe our parents' lives are imprinted within us, maybe the only fate there is is the temptation of reliving their mistakes. Maybe, try as we might, we will never be able to outrun the blood that runs through our veins. Or. Or maybe we are free the moment we are born. Maybe everything we've even done is by our own hands.”
“There’s no room for you in my life anymore. And I don’t owe it to you to make any space.”
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love, malibu-rising, family, parents, family-relationships, self-love, relationship, inspirational
