There was something astonishingly effortless about this woman. Like she had no interest in being anything but herself.
“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.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
“If God wanted me to give you up, he wouldn't have made me who I am.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“What a gift it was to know so clearly what you were not, who you did not want to be. Nina wasn’t sure she’d ever asked herself that question.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
“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.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
“Hud would love his child the way his mother had loved him: actively, every day, and without ambiguity.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
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