Malibu Rising Quotes

“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.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“What did it take? To say exactly what you meant? To feel comfortable in the middle of causing discomfort? To not feel(...) that it was your responsibility to make things smooth and pleasant for everyone?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid

“And because June had not shrugged off his arm, Mick felt confident enough to kiss her neck. And because she had not shrugged off the small request, she did not know how to shrug off the larger one. And on and on it went. Small boundaries broken, snapped like tiny twigs so many that June barely noticed he was coming for the whole tree.
With every move Mick made, as he held her, as he kissed her, June lost sight of the exact moment to speak up and then resigned herself to the pain of having never spoken up at all.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid

“Maybe you owe your parents nothing, maybe you owe them everything.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“And I've been really sad, Nina added. That I...that I meant so little to someone who had made me believe I meant so much.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Sabe o peso que um corpo pode ter quando desaba nos seus braços, desamparado? Multiplique isso por três. Nina carregou tudo isso. Todo esse peso, em seus braços, em suas costas”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“I will be more than this, June thought to herself. I am more than just a woman he left.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“And so, in a way, you could say that this is when Mick fell in love with June, if falling in love is a choice. He chose her.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“But in the morning, her anger had lost it's edges. It had morphed into sorrow. She was now overtaken by the dull ache of grief, expansive and tender like a whole-body bruise. She had lost the life she believed she'd been granted. She was in mourning.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid

“You guys are late,” Hud said. “Nina’s probably waiting for us.”
“Jay had to run some secret operation,” Kit said.
“Kit had to change her clothes four times,” Jay offered.
“Once. I changed my clothes once.”
“What secret operation?” Hud asked as Jay looked at passing traffic and then gunned it into the right lane.
“It’s nothing,” Jay said. “Lay off.” And that’s when everyone knew it was a woman.
Hud felt his shoulders loosen. If Jay was interested in someone new, that would soften the blow. “Consider me officially laying off then,” he said, both hands up in surrender.
“Yeah,” Kit said. “Like anyone gives a shit anyway.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“The first wave in a gorgeous set came in and Jay was primed for it. He got himself into position and popped up on his board, and then out of nowhere, Kit dropped in, cut him off, and stole his wave.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“She thought she looked cool. Like, actually cool. She could feel herself starting to well up.
Nina came up behind her, put her arms around her, and said, “You look like a million bucks, babe.”
This outfit made her feel like there were parts of herself she was just meeting for the first time. Kit could barely contain the smile on her face. She hung her own arms around her sister’s and said, “Thank you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“She tried to imagine her parents doing what she was doing right now, crashing a famous party in Malibu. She could not even picture it. But she understood that while the circumstances were almost unrecognizable, she did still have the instincts they’d given her. After all, when they could not have a child, they went out in search of one. They had taught her that family is found, that whether it be blood or circumstance or choice, what binds us does not matter. All that matters is that we are bound.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid