POC Week Event 5: Favourite POC Pairing - Frank Zhang and Hazel Levesque

And that was the moment I realized: when the world felt dark and scary, love could whisk you off to go dancing; laughter could take some of the pain away; beauty could punch holes in your fear. I decided then that my life would be full of all three.

From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love.

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.

He was death and rage and fire and anyone stupid enough to forget that would be consumed by his inferno.

but if the world was an abstract object for them, it was even more abstract to him, for me had no stake in any of these matters.

That’s life. You’re always making decisions, taking paths that lead you away from the rest before you can see where they end. Maybe that’s why we as a species love stories so much. All those chances for do-overs, opportunities to live the lives we’ll never have.