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“How many other burning places will it take for us to feel each other?”
― Julia Dixon Evans, How to Set Yourself on Fire

“I can acknowledge the desire to have some concrete pain to fill the spaces where my twisted mind expects it”
― Julia Dixon Evans, How to Set Yourself on Fire

“I try to remind myself not to frighten this stranger who, standing across from me, forms some sort of ancestral mirror of two tormented souls.”
― Julia Dixon Evans, How to Set Yourself on Fire

“Hud would love his child the way his mother had loved him: actively, every day, and without ambiguity. And maybe twenty-five years from now, all of them plus a whole new generation of Rivas would be right here on this very beach. And maybe there would be another reckoning. Perhaps his children would tell him he’d been too permissive or he’d been too strict, he’d put too much emphasis on x when it should have been y. He smiled to think of it, the ways in which he would mess this whole thing up. It was inevitable, wasn’t it? The small mistakes and heartbreaks of guiding a life? His mother had screwed up almost as much as she’d succeeded. But the one thing he knew in his bones was that he would not leave. His child—his children, if he was lucky—would know, from the day they were born, that he was not going anywhere. • • •”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising