He was getting so sick of all the people around him all the time. And yet, he didn’t want to find out what his soul had to say when he was by himself.

Malibu Rising,  Taylor Jenkins Reid

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.

Malibu Rising,  Taylor Jenkins Reid

And she thought, for a moment, that maybe she could let herself be angry at her mother, too. Angry at her mother for the burnt dinners and lit cigarettes, for the Sea Breezes and Cape Codders. Angry at her mother for getting in that bathtub in the first place.

Malibu Rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Beautiful but maybe a bit awkward. Awkward but maybe beautiful.

Malibu Rising,  Taylor Jenkins Reid

The good thing about getting dumped by a dickhead is that you don’t have to deal with the dickhead anymore. At least, that’s how it’s supposed to work.

Malibu Rising,  Taylor Jenkins Reid

There should be a way to undo your fuckups. Not just redeem yourself for them but actually undo them, make them so that they never happened. He wanted to take back every second of heartbreak he’d caused his wife. She did not deserve any of it, had done nothing to deserve his complete and disastrous breakdown.

Malibu Rising,  Taylor Jenkins Reid

He was supposed to be indestructible. He was supposed to be humble despite being brilliant, affable despite his sheer domination on the court.

Malibu Rising,  Taylor Jenkins Reid

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,  Taylor Jenkins Reid

Your whole world can be falling apart, she thought, but then Springsteen will start playing on the radio.

Malibu Rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid

“You are everything,” he said. 

“Yeah, well,” June deadpanned. “You’re a whole lot of nothing.”

Malibu Rising,  Taylor Jenkins Reid

And when Nina dove deep into her own sorrow, shoveling it out like digging to the bottom of a hole, she found that this pain, which had seemed bottomless, did, in fact, have a bottom for now.

Malibu Rising,  Taylor Jenkins Reid

That is the thing about the water, it is not yours to control. You are at the mercy of nature.

Malibu Rising,  Taylor Jenkins Reid

asking-jude:

“It’s okay to cry over something you thought you were healed from.”

— Lauren Marana 

♡ Need support?

Gimli

- “Speak, or I will put a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find hard to deal with! ”

Arwen

- “ And to that I hold. I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. ”

Boromir

- “To Let That Fear Drive Us To Destroy What Hope We Have - That Is Madness!”

Saruman

- “Moria… You fear to go into those mines. The Dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum… shadow and flame”

Bilbo

- “Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea – any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!”

Sam

- “But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.”