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“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 because 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

“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

“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

“Your whole world can be falling apart, she thought, but then Springsteen will start playing on the radio.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Alcoholism is a disease with many faces, and some of them look beautiful.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“But they were in love, the kind of love that hurts. They hit highs so high neither of them could quite stand it, and lows so low they weren't sure they'd survive them.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Nina didn’t hate Carrie Soto for stealing her husband because husbands can’t be stolen. Carrie Soto wasn’t a thief; Brandon Randall was a traitor.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Someone should tell them all, Nina thought, paradise doesn’t exist.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Small boundaries broken, snapped like tiny twigs, so many that June barely noticed he was coming for the whole tree.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Sometimes love and chaos are the same thing.”
― Katharine McGee, The Thousandth Floor

“If you aren't sure, then you definitely aren't in love.”
― Katharine McGee, The Thousandth Floor

“Love and trust aren't the same thing.”
― Katharine McGee, The Thousandth Floor

“Up here on the roof, so close to the stars, she felt young and alive and hateful.”
― Katharine McGee, The Thousandth Floor

“Nothing mattered except this moment. She felt invincible, untouchable, like she would be this way forever: young and dancing and electric and alive.”
― Katharine McGee, The Thousandth Floor

“Her body was reacting instinctively to his nearness, like a plant that had been too long in the dark and was finally exposed to sunlight.”
― Katharine McGee, The Thousandth Floor

“Her biggest secret was standing right there before her. She just hoped he wasn’t also her biggest mistake.”
― Katharine McGee, The Thousandth Floor

“Her mind was jumbled, everything blurred together and confused; but from the tangled knot of her feelings she had extracted a single crucial thread”
― Katharine McGee, The Thousandth Floor

“There was a downpour coming; Avery could feel it. The wind was already gaining strength, tearing out the last of her hairpins, whipping her dress close to her body. The air was heavy with the scent of rain.”
― Katharine McGee, The Thousandth Floor

“It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict or foresee everything that was going to happen, you’d lose the motivation to go through it all. The promise was always in the possibility.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

“She knew, now, that there was always light—beyond the dark, and the fear, out of the depths; there was sun to reach for, and air and space and freedom.
There was always a way up, and out, and no need to be afraid.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

“She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful. Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too.

The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

“She thought all you needed to do - all any of them needed - was to get out. But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

“when you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you’re happy and it’s easy.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

“How do I know I can trust you?' she said finally.
'That's the thing about trust.' He crunched an ice cube between his teeth. 'You don't know.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

“The Bravery was in moving forward, no matter what. Someday, she might be called on to jump again. And she would do it. She knew, now, that there was always light--beyond the dark, and the dear, out of the depths; there was sun to reach for, and air and space and freedom.

There was always a way up, and out, and no need to be afraid.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

“This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

“She felt as though, just for a second, she had understood something vastly important, had had a glimpse of it: love, pure and simple and undemanding.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

“If people changed, it meant that she was allowed to change too. She could be different.

She could be happier.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

“He wasn't afraid. He just didn't care. And that was very, very different.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic