“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
“I don’t want you to be grateful, he says. I just want you to be happy.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“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
“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
“he thinks: and the task of life is to show goodness to others, not to complain about their failings.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
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