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Malibu Rising

by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 06, 2026 09:44AM

“Maybe the secret to fulfillment is to stop wondering what we're lacking; to stop seeking love and instead to start accepting ourselves and loving the people we encounter.”
― Kristine Gasbarre, How to Love an American Man: A True Story – A Warm and Poignant Memoir on a Grandmother's Romance Lessons

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“I teach the world how to treat me by the way I treat myself, and the way I present myself.”
― Kristine Gasbarre

tags: inspirational, life-lessons, women

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“It's what you do that makes your soul.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

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“Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.”
― Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

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“I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits it. He fits into it as he fits into his clothes. He will always fit into it. When he gets out of the car and I meet him and hug him, there he is, him himself, something of my very own forever, and my love for him goes all around him just as it did when he was a baby and a little boy and a young man grown.”
― Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

tags: boys, family

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