The Wedding Quotes

“Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.”
― Dorothy West, The Wedding

“Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.”
― Dorothy West, The Wedding

“He had been taught that bread unshared is bread unblessed when someone else is hungry, whether man or beast, friend or stranger.”
― Dorothy West, The Wedding

“Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes they throw off like sparks... But once you fight through the sparks and get to the person, you find just that, a person, a big jumble of likes, dislikes, fears, and desires.”
― Dorothy West, The Wedding

“She would grace his home with her charm and beauty and she would make his bed joyous, all without ever having to shame his hearth with another man's memory of her shamelessness.”
― Dorothy West, The Wedding