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Your mother and I had always been secretly pleased that you were so headstrong and passionate about your causes. Once you were gone, we understood that these were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women
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“Life is strange. Always thinking that this one thing is going to make you happy. Because then you get it. And then you’re maybe not as happy as you imagined you would be. Because every day is just every day. Like the happiness becomes so big you have no choice but to live inside it. Until you can no longer see or feel it. And so you start to fixate on something else.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“You do remember that I came to this hotel to kill myself,” Phoebe says. Saying it aloud makes her feel very far away from that woman who put on her green dress and came here to die—to think of someone being in that much pain. To think of herself walking in here like she had no other option. Phoebe wants to hug that woman, not hurt her.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“I want to make love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.”
― Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
― Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
“Your husband is not going to take care of you the way you think...Nobody can take care of you the way you need to take care of yourself. It's your job to take care of yourself like that.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.”
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