julia :)

“Are you happy?" I ask him.
The question is so abrupt, I expect him to balk a little, but he doesn't. "I've had moments of it, yeah."
I don't like this answer. I want him to be joyful, loved, adored, full of everything, all the time.
"I'll admit," he adds, "I feel more of it being near you.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“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.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, 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.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Carole knows what drives people to such despair, knows what its like to appear normal but to feel herself swaying
just one leap away
from
the amassed crowds on the platforms who carry enough hope in their hearts to stay alive
swaying
just one leap away from
eternal
peace”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other