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“She liked knowable, comfortable things. She liked cozy reading nooks. Books that always ended the same way, characters in novels who were easily recognizable by their outfits. Beds with elaborate canopies that protected her from the world, and maybe that is the problem. Maybe this bed is too beautiful. It makes her feel grateful to be so far away from her own.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“I also think about how in that excruciating moment—with an urge so deep in my bones it brought me to tears—I did the right thing. And I think about how maybe, just maybe, that means I can do the right thing a second time.”
― P.J. Vernon, Bath Haus

“So perhaps, Reader, you and I have never met, but we both belong in books—and perhaps that’s where we might meet after all.”
― P.J. Vernon, Bath Haus

“And maybe that’s it: You do things in the moment for the person you hope you might be two years from now. You don’t kill yourself when you are sad because one day you might not be sad, and you might want to go surfing with a man you really like?”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People