The Wedding Dress Quotes

“Life got complicated and messy and sometimes went completely wrong, and all she could hope was that Felicity and her new husband would love each other enough when those times came.”
― Lucy Kevin, The Wedding Dress

“As parents, as people, we try to do our best. We try to be perfect for the people we love, because we know better than anyone just how much they deserve that perfection. Yet we aren’t perfect. We make mistakes, and then we make more mistakes trying to protect the people we love from them. None of that changes how much we love the people we care about.”
― Lucy Kevin, The Wedding Dress

“She led the way around another bend in the path to a spot where there were trays of bedding plants along with soil. Gareth could guess what she intended. “Oh no. No way.” “Everyone should do it at least once.” She took off her own shoes without hesitating. They were beautiful heels that matched the dress she was wearing. Gareth guessed that she’d either customized them herself or made the dress to fit the shoes. “You’re really going to plant a flower in those shoes?” “Of course. Come on, try it. You won’t regret it.” He thought he might, given how much the shoes he was wearing had cost, yet Gareth found himself bending down to untie them and pick out a plant. Anne planted hers beside his. “There,” she said. “Doesn’t that feel good?” It did. Better than he’d have thought. And as they padded out of the park together, Anne in her bare feet and Gareth in his black dress socks, in that moment he felt like he could tell her anything.”
― Lucy Kevin, The Wedding Dress

“Plants were flowing up out of old sneakers, high heels, men’s dress shoes, even a few tall boots. They were bedding plants, mostly, but a few larger specimens poked up out of open-backed shoes that let their roots spread more. “It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” Anne said. It should have looked like just random littering. It should have looked too odd to be beautiful. It should have been pure chaos. Yet, Gareth had to admit that the flowers made the shoe garden a riot of colors, while the shoes in between blended with those colors. It was strange but also very beautiful indeed. He found himself smiling as he looked around the place. At the thought that someone could have done this. “Who put all this together?” “People just come along and plant shoes.”
― Lucy Kevin, The Wedding Dress