Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes

“The famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. ”

“After he and June had Nina and Jay, a woman appeared at June’s door while Mick was on tour—Mick fathered her son Hud, whom she leaves with June. June forgave Mick for his affair, but eventually, he left her to marry another woman.”

“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.”

“The novel flashes back to 1956. The siblings’ parents, June and Mick Riva, met in Malibu just as Mick was beginning his career as a singer. He slowly became famous.”

“Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, the family drama that ensues will change their lives will change forever.”

“Daisy Jones is a drug-addicted, gorgeous girl who has never had anyone pay attention to her. She wants to matter, and she wants to write great music in late 70s.”

″ Malibu: August 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas.”

“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.”

“Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the real reason why they split at the absolute height of their popularity…until now.”

“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?”

“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.”

“Together the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over—especially as the offspring of the legendary singer Mick Riva.”

“Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. ”

“The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most.”

“Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne.”

“The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband.”

“By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.”

“Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the real reason why they split at the absolute height of their popularity…”

“Daisy Jones & The Six follows “a rock band in the 1970s from their rise in the LA music scene to becoming one of the most legendary bands in the world and explores the reason behind their split at the height of their success.”

″ On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.”

“Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes the key to supercharged success is to put the two together.”

“I couldn’t imagine what it was like to be him, to have something you were so passionate about that you actually needed to make yourself take a break from it.”

“When you look back on your own timeline, there’s a sharp spike somewhere along the way, some event that changed you, changed your life, more than the others. A moment that creates a ‘before’ and an ‘after.’”

“Whenever I picked one of them up, I would be struck by how perfectly they symbolized exactly what I resented about that bookstore. I was going to travel the world by actually traveling it.”

“Everything that happened before today feels different now, and I have no idea what happens after this.”

“I used to think that my moment was when Jesse died. Everything about our love story seemed to have been leading up to that. And everything since has been in response. But now I know that Jesse never died.”

“I wondered how good it would feel to have that smile directed at me, to be the cause of a smile like that- and suddenly, my new crush on Jesse Lerner grew into a massive, inflated balloon that was so strong it could have lifted the two of us up into the air if we’d grabbed on.”

“As I walked toward the double doors at the end of the hall, heading to class, it occurred to me that maybe it was time to just be friends with whomever I wanted to be friends with, to not try quite so hard to reject everything Marie liked.”

“Maybe it was time to just... by myself.”

“And, just as my father said that afternoon, ‘one day’ I was going to need my sister very, very much.”