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“You can be married and be very alone...More alone that when you're...well, alone.”
― alison espach, The Wedding People

“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

“it is all about moving on. Saying goodbye to whoever you thought you were, whoever you thought you would be.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“Every wedding, even a successful wedding, is a waste," Phoebe says. "Every wedding is an egregious amount of money that could have, yes, been spent on much more practical things, like say, a house, a down payment, a school in a small, dying mill town. A wedding is always a fleeting spectacle that is one hundred percent going to become packed down into a teeny tiny garbage square that'll wind up in your father's landfill."

“But it’s also true that this wedding will never be a waste,” Phoebe says. “Because I came here to die. And now look at me.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People