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“I think we talk about happiness all wrong. As if it’s this fixed state we’re going to reach. Like we’ll just be able to live there, forever. But that’s not my experience with happiness. For me, it comes and goes. It shows up and then disappears like a bubble.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“She is so good at predicting what will happen in books, so bad at predicting what will happen in life. That is why she has always preferred books - because to be alive is so much harder.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“I’d like to be the person who could take all of your sad things and make them happy. Like I’d hunt down each one and turn it over”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“Love is visible—it paints the air between two people a different color, and everyone can see it.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People