ezgi’s Reviews > The Wedding People > Status Update

"..her presence had somehow become irrelevant to her own husband, and how are people supposed to tolade 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 friends arms unthinkingly to being afraid to call them after your father dies?"

"..She gives up trying to feel like she's in a painting. She doesn't have to be beautiful in this moment. She doesn't have to be anything, ever. Her husband is not watching. Her father is not watching. Nobody was ever really watching, expect Phoebe. Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

"..And why does she do this? Why does she have a nice day with people, feel connected to them, and then, when alone, think only about the possible horrors of her isolation ahead?"

"She is surprised that she genuinely wants to know.
She has always been so afraid to know things about herself...or seeing her large nose in a photo or listening to her therapist draw unbearably acourate conclusions about her."Have you always been this critical of yourself?" he asked her and yes, she has.Where did she learn this?How did she become so good at identifying flaws? At seeing only the fungus on the trees?

"It's arousing to see someone passionately take care of all the problems. Especially for someone like Phoebe, the perpetual passanger of the relationship, according to her therapist-the one who always asked, 'where do you want to go to dinner?' hoping the other person knew where they wanted to go."

"She refuses to spend her last hours on this planet worrying. She has spent too much time worrying about what to drink, where to vacation, what to wear, what to say, was it hotter to write cum or come, and what was the point? What did it matter how she spelled it? Her husband left anyway."

"She looked at herself in the mirror. There she was again, she thought, and yet, she felt.like she was somewhere far away, still in the fertility clinic, watching Matt shake hands with the doctor. Or maybe she was at the River Ouse, watching Virginia Woolf fill her pockets with stones. She wondered how many stones Woold used. How cold was the water?"