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“Dad was a workaholic on Wall Street; Mom was an emotionless trophy wife. They were picture perfect on the outside, a tragedy of a marriage on the inside.”
― Meghan Quinn, The Wedding Game

“The last person I ever want to be is my father. I make sure every day that the apple has fallen as far away from the tree as possible.”
― Meghan Quinn, The Wedding Game

“Too much too soon?” Thad asks, clearly sensing my need to flee the scene of the crime, where I hugged my brother twice in a row just for showing up at his apartment.”
― Meghan Quinn, The Wedding Game

“I hope his brother accidentally uses his ass as a pincushion.”
― Meghan Quinn, The Wedding Game

“Yup. That’s what I like to do on the weekends—follow irritable egomaniacs around just to annoy them.”
― Meghan Quinn, The Wedding Game

“So the question is, Have we seen each other before? Have we sat back to back at the diner before? Passed each other on the street? Flagged down the same taxi? It’s a weird sensation, wondering if the person you just met might be someone you’ve been crossing paths with for years.”
― Meghan Quinn, The Wedding Game

“You don’t have to be a struggling artist to be an artist. What idiots. You can make money and create.”
― Meghan Quinn, The Wedding Game

“Because even though you’re older, I’m wiser. Never forget that.”
― Meghan Quinn, The Wedding Game

“Trust me—these major life moments need to be cherished with the ones you love. I’ve spent most of my big moments with no one. It’s lonely, and it leaves everything feeling smaller, sadder. This argument is not worth it. Not even close to worth it.”
― Meghan Quinn, The Wedding Game

“Unless you’re here to tell her everything’s okay, you can leave, and I’m taking my wedding gift back, because there is no way in hell you’ll get a three-hundred-dollar espresso machine from me. And yes, I may have stolen it from work because we have ten extra in storage, but you still won’t get it.”
― Meghan Quinn, The Wedding Game

“It’s the worst thing, isn’t it, for someone to ask if you are OK when you are not OK. It’s the last thing you need.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“die as we live,” says Fareed, reaching for a ruler. “Our mental and physical traumas, our pasts, daily habits, lusts, desires, fetishes, addictions—it’s all written into the body.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Patient's Secret

“Our bodies keep score even if we don’t ourselves. Nothing left to hide once you’re up here on my table. Death is the great equalizer when it comes to alcohol, too. Whether cheap vodka or Dom Pérignon, it’s all ethanol. All toxic, and”
― Loreth Anne White, The Patient's Secret

“Society as a whole doesn’t allow you to change if you’ve done something terrible, does it? There will always be reminders, individuals who cannot forgive, who refuse to let go, who want to pull you back and stamp it like some indelible scarlet letter into the center of your forehead. So others will see you coming, and know that you must forever be judged and punished.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Patient's Secret

“We all need a mask in order to function. But wear the mask too long and we forget who really lives behind it. Right? We forget our authentic selves.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Patient's Secret

“Maybe that’s the problem—wearing a mask so long you are no longer aware you’re even wearing it.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Patient's Secret

“And all marriages have their secrets.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Patient's Secret