“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
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“Seems more plausible that Hell is some revenge fantasy concocted by unhappy people so they could punish all the happy people in their minds.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“It is so much easier to sit in things and wait for something to save us.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“to fear judgement was not the same thing as believing that the judgement was valid.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“Phoebe has become good over the years at detecting who has a loving mother and who does not, because Phoebe believes a loving mother gives a person a kind of confidence to exist that Phoebe never quite had.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“The more times you followed a recipe, the more it became a part of your own body.”
― Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder
― Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder
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