didn’t have a degree and I hadn’t taken any classes, but I’d watched thousands of hours of romantic comedies in my life. And I hadn’t just watched. I’d analyzed them with the observational acuity of a clinical psychologist.
“Sometimes not working can be work, just more gently. It’s important to just be, Charlie, every once in a while.”
― Girl in Pieces
― Girl in Pieces
“She knew it was up to her to say what had to be said. To do what had to be done. When there is only you, you do not get to choose which jobs you want, you do not get to decide you are incapable of anything. There is no room for distaste or weakness. You must do it all. All of the ugliness, the sadness, the things most people can't stand to even think about, all must live inside of you. You must be capable of everything.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
“She’s like poetry.
Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading
down
the
center
of
a
page.”
― Ugly Love
Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading
down
the
center
of
a
page.”
― Ugly Love
“She had to choose what, of the things she inherited from the people who came before her, she wanted to bring forward. And what, of the past, she wanted to leave behind.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
“Maybe our parents' lives are imprinted within us, maybe the only fate there is is the temptation of reliving their mistakes. Maybe, try as we might, we will never be able to outrun the blood that runs through our veins. Or. Or maybe we are free the moment we are born. Maybe everything we've even done is by our own hands.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
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