Kaylee

“We're all playing catch up. From the moment we're born we're the beneficiaries of millennia of struggle. We've been inherited the best and worst of everyone who came before us, we had no say in the matter. We didn't elect to be born, pick our parents, our circumstances, or our environment. People we've never met, people we've never even thought about, all had a hand in the hand we were dealt and it's our job, as far as I can tell, to correct the bad behavior of everyone who came before us.”
― Josh Peck, HAPPY PEOPLE ARE ANNOYING

“I had to be for him what I wished my dad was for me, because sometimes the only way to correct trauma is by not passing it to the next victim.”
― Josh Peck, HAPPY PEOPLE ARE ANNOYING

“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 disappears like a bubble.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“But Phoebe is starting to understand that on some nights, Lila is probably the loneliest girl in the world, just like Phoebe. And maybe they are all lonely. Maybe this is just what it means to be a person. To constantly reckon with being a single being in one body. Maybe everybody sits up at night and creates arguments in their head for why they are the loneliest person in the world.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People