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“A good life is knowing people care about you, knowing you can take care of the people that count on you, knowing you’re doing a little something in your community.” (Malibu Rising Quotes)
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“Alcoholism is a disease with many faces, and some of them look beautiful.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“Assholes protect their own. They are faithful to no one but surprisingly protective of each other.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“Being on the beach at night was for young romantics and troublemakers.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“But a good life is knowing people care about you, knowing you can take care of the people that count on you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“Children who grow up with money have no idea it exists. But children who don’t understand that it powers everything.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“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?”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“I’d love to be somewhere where no one knows who I am or who my dad is and no one has my posters on their wall and I can eat anything I want to. And I can cut all my hair off if I feel like it and maybe be a gardener or a landscaper.” (Malibu Rising Quotes)
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“I don’t think what you’re born into says anything about where you’re headed.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“It felt terrible, simply terrible, to have the most vulnerable thing about you pointed out and given a name.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“It’s true. Us Riva women have great boobs. Mom had great boobs. I have great boobs. You have great boobs. Own your birthright.”
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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“Our family histories are simply stories. They are myths we create about the people who came before us, in order to make sense of ourselves.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“Our parents live inside us, whether they stick around or not… They express themselves through us in the way we hold a pen or shrug our shoulders, in the way we raise our eyebrow. Our heritage lingers in our blood.””
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“People that are cool don’t really need to play cool, do they?
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“She could see her mother in her body, could feel her in her heart, could sense her in everything she did, sometimes. The older she got, the more obvious it became.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“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
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“She knew that she could not sustain her life fueled only by the memories of those she once loved. Loss would not propel her forward. She had to go out and live. She had to find new people.” (Malibu Rising Quotes)
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“She was a woman, after all. Living in a world created by men. And she had long known that assholes protect their own. They are faithful to no one but surprisingly protective of each other.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“She was a woman, after all. Living in a world created by men.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“That’s what it means to be a family. Staying. Not just strolling into a party after midnight expecting a hug.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“That is the thing about the water, it is not yours to control. You are at the mercy of nature. That’s what makes surfing feel like more than sport: It requires destiny to be on your side, the ocean must favor you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“The world is full of all kinds of people and some are the kind who show up for a party before it even starts.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“There should be a way to undo your f*ckups. Not just redeem yourself for them but actually undo them, make them so that they never happened.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“There was finally enough air within her for a fire to ignite.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“There was no end to the stories people would tell about what happened at the Riva party, some of which Nina wasn’t even sure were true.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“There was no good way to cancel a party that never had any invitations. People were coming, whether she wanted them there or not.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“There’s no room for you in my life anymore. And I don’t owe it to you to make any space.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“This is something you have to understand about being a parent—some people just aren’t cut out for it. Some people don’t have what it takes.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“This whole town was just people who weren’t screwing pretending they were and people who were screwing pretending they weren’t.” (Malibu Rising Quotes)
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“Too much self-sufficiency was sort of mean to the people who loved you. You robbed them of how good it feels to give, of their sense of value.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“What is one beautiful woman if you’ve slept with hundreds already? What does it matter if the pretty teenager in the corner is batting her eyes at you when you’ve had the world’s most famous woman in your bed?”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“Well, you know what they say. If you’re gonna sleep with your brother’s ex-girlfriend, make sure you knock her up while you’re at it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“When there’s 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 distance 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 you. You must be capable of anything.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“When you fall in love with your manager’s assistant, fire your manager, promote his gorgeous assistant, marry her, and then divorce her, you’re left with no wife or manager.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“Whether it be blood or circumstance or choice, what binds us does not matter. All that matters is that we are bound.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“You can’t treat people like dirt and think they are just going to take it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
