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“I mean, I just lived my life in such a small way... It was too small. I was so convinced there was only one way to live my life.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“لا تحزني...
إن صارت الدنيا
حطاماً حولنا
فالصبح سوف يجيئ
من هذا الحطام

فالصبح سوف يجيئ
من هذا الحطام”
― فاروق جويدة, لأني أحبك

“because she didn’t know if it was better to be correct or fun, and why did it feel like she always had to choose between the two?”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“Ever since I arrived here, I’ve had this feeling that we’re just pretending to still be friends. Reenacting the friendship the way it used to be, when we were actually close,” Lila says. That was how Phoebe felt at the end of her marriage. They reenacted the beginning—went on date nights, invited each other to things. Matt was always saying, Sure, yes, come to happy hour. But she could feel how he didn’t really care if she came. Her presence had somehow become irrelevant to her own husband, and how are people supposed to tolerate that kind of pain? How are you supposed to go from being the center of someone’s world to being irrelevant? To sobbing in your best friend’s arms unthinkingly to being afraid to call them after your father dies? Phoebe doesn’t know. She, too, was caught unprepared by that kind of loss.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People