“That is how life feels too often. Like you're doing everything you can to survive only to be sabotaged by something beyond your control, maybe even some darker part of yourself.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“What broken family—no matter how shattered be reunited? What child, no matter how lost or abandoned, does not ache to be loved?”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
“Like the moon, we must go through phases of emptiness to feel full again. So remember, you do not have to be whole in order to shine.”
― Everything He Couldn't
― Everything He Couldn't
“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?”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
“She missed the parents who had never truly understood her, missed the man who had never truly loved her, missed the future she thought she had been building for herself, missed the young girl she used to be.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
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