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The Wedding People

Book by Alison Espach · 11 quotes · Friendship, Alive, Art Collection

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“Phoebe prefers this new way of talking. And maybe this is just one of the really nice things about getting older. Maybe this is the part of her life when she gets to start saying what she means, for better or worse. Because no amount of truth can be worse than the feeling she got after years of hiding from it.”

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“When she was alone, she stopped seeing the meaning in things.”

Human Nature Loneliness Despair Reflection Meaning Vulnerability Isolation Emptiness Introspective Emotional Struggle

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“... and now here she is here in a hot tub, flirting with a man she would have deemed "too attractive" before. She would have seen him out at a bar and dismissed him because he was beautiful. And how ridiculous is that? That she made rules about not being attracted to people who were too attractive...”

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“Yeah. And did you ever wonder why I was suicidal?” Phoebe asks. “Did you ever once ask me, Hey, what’s wrong?” “Well, I didn’t want to pry.” “No,” Phoebe says. “You just wanted to talk at me. You don’t care what I have to say.”

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“Phoebe didn't think she'd end up being a woman like this. But if the last few years have taught her anything, it's that you really can't ever know who you are going to become.”

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“She wonders how terrifying it felt . . . looking at the sea, feeling like she was at the very end of it all. She wonders what it was that made her realize there was somewhere else to go.”

Hope Journey Existentialism Introspection

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“But Wharton hadn’t published any of her books while she lived in this house. At Land’s End, she had been unknown, an unhappy married woman. She had not yet become the real Edith Wharton. Not yet divorced. Not yet a novelist. Not yet a war correspondent in France. She wonders how terrifying it felt, not to know any of this about herself, to sit out on this big lawn, looking at the sea, feeling like she was at the very end of it all. She wonders what it was that made her realize there was somewhere else to go.”

Fiction Novel Edith Wharton

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“But now she can understand what he was trying to tell her. It is good to want things, even the humiliating things. Even the things you aren’t supposed to want, like Gary, the groom. Because every time she thinks of sitting in that hot tub with Gary, she feels so lucky to be alive.”

Alive Lucky Humiliating

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“To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours.”

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“Phoebe is disappointed, too. She didn’t have a speech, but she was still looking forward to getting up there, speaking in front of the crowd, saying nice things about what Lila has meant to her this week, and really taking her place as Lila’s friend. But maybe this is why Lila has no real friends, Phoebe thinks. She doesn’t know how to keep them. She keeps trading them in for something else.”

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“Lila admits she does not do the best job of keeping in touch with her friends when they are no longer right in front of her face.”

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