“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
“Family is found...whether it be blood or circumstance or choice, what binds us does not matter. All that matters is that we are bound.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
“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
“I wish I could bottle this moment and wear it as a perfume. It would always be with me. Everywhere I went, he’d be there too, and so I’d always feel like myself.”
― People We Meet on Vacation
― People We Meet on Vacation
“Buried in the claim is another notion—that the worth of a people is defined by their possession of a homeland incorporated as a state. The Palestinians, lacking such a state, had no right to the land and perhaps no rights at all.”
― The Message
― The Message
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