“She thought of her children like the magic grow capsules you got at gift shops at the science museum. These tiny little nothings that you drop into water and then watch as they slowly reveal what they were always destined to be. This one a Stegosaurus, this one a T. Rex. Except, instead, it was watching them become dependable, or talented, or kind, or daring.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
“Because while stupid people may not know they’re stupid because they’re stupid, surely unattractive people must know they’re unattractive because of mirrors.”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun,”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“some things needed to stay in the past because the past was the only place they made sense.”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“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.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
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