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“There is no God, child. There’s religion but there’s no God of theirs. Their religion tells that we will get our reward in the end. However, it apparently doesn’t say anything about their punishment. But when we’re around them, we believe ...more
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Alison Espach
“I didn’t want to be saved from myself. Nobody does! All we want is permission to stand there naked and be our damned selves.” This sounds true to Phoebe. This sounds like exactly what she wants, what she has secretly always wanted. To read books when she wanted to read books. To be sad when she was sad. To be scared when she was scared. To be angry when she was angry. To be boring when she felt boring.”
Alison Espach, The Wedding People

Alison Espach
“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

Alison Espach
“Phoebe had been raised to feel sorry for everything—sorry for being born, sorry for almost drowning, sorry for getting an A-minus on my exam, sorry for not bearing children, sorry for not getting to the last three slides of the PowerPoint, everybody. Sometimes, Phoebe sent her class apology emails after lectures when she didn’t finish on time. Because she was a good professor. A good woman. But where is the line? When did Phoebe being good become Phoebe being nothing?”
Alison Espach, The Wedding People

Simon Van Booy
“The only consolation of being the last to go,” she admits, “is knowing the people you loved the most won’t suffer the way you do in their absence.”
Simon Van Booy, Sipsworth

Simon Van Booy
“And herein lies the cruel paradox of human existence⁠—not that you die, but that all happiness eventually turns against you.”
Simon Van Booy, Sipsworth

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