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“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

“My mother had never known me either, though it wasn't because I hadn't given her a chance. I'd given her a lot of chances. What was saddest was that she didn't seem to want to know me, not as I was on the inside. I wasn't even sure if she could grasp that I had an inside, that I was real. Sometimes it seemed impossible that she had ever given birth to me at all. Other times, it made perfect sense that I had lived inside her for so long. It explained why she could only see me as an extension of herself.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“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

“I would not have you be alone, Lina, not in your joys or your sorrows. I would wish your strand knotted to mine, always.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes