“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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“to fear judgement was not the same thing as believing that the judgement was valid.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“There are some people in this world who remind you of exactly how you like to speak. She hasn’t met a person like this in a long time, not since she met her husband, which was why it was so painful when she started to forget how to speak to her husband.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“Lila has no maid of honor and Phoebe has never been a maid of honor. It has always been a mark of shame for her, that no woman in this world was willing to claim her.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“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
“I don’t want you to be grateful, he says. I just want you to be happy.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
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