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“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

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

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

“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

“He said loving me was like seeing the ocean for the first time. Watching the waves crash senselessly against the rocks, over and over. Grabbing fistfuls of sand as it trickled through his fingers, like my hair, brittle as ebony, strong and taut like the bumps of his knuckles. He said it was like swallowing his first mouthful of the sea — the sudden shock of betrayal.”
― Lang Leav, The Universe of Us