“Alcoholism is a disease with many faces, and some of them look beautiful.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
“just as it is in Malibu’s nature to burn, so was it in one particular person’s nature to set fire and walk away.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I spent half my time loving her and the other half hiding how much I loved her.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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