Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 15 quotes that I liked and saved while reading The Wedding People book by Alison Espach. I hope you will like them too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
The Wedding People Quotes
- You really can’t ever know who you are going to become.
- When you are happy, everywhere is a happy place. And when you are sad, everywhere is a sad place.
- A story can be beautiful not because of the way it ends. But because of the way it’s written.
- Having a mother helps you believe that everybody wants to hear every little thing you think. Having a mother helps you speak without thinking. It allows you to trust in your most awful self, to yell and scream and cry, knowing that your mother will still love you by the end of it.
- This is the gift random strangers can give you, the freedom to say or be anything around them. Because who cares?
- Life is unbelievable, she thinks. Last night, she was about to die alone in her hotel room and now 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.
- Maybe that’s the trick night performs. Darkens everybody, highlights the nothingness around them. Maybe in the dark, everyone seems more alone than they are.
- If people could just stop using the word fun, stop expecting everything to be fun, everything could be fun again.
- You really think you can just walk around, spewing your inner monologue onto everything, but you can’t. You have to respect people. You have to knock on their doors before walking into their bedroom. Nobody cares that you’re the fucking bride. It doesn’t give you a license to just watch people bathe. You’re not God. You’re just another fucking woman, put here on earth like the rest of us.
- Some people don’t ask for what they need. Some people are like religious children that way, mistaking suffering with goodness.
- The ocean is terrifying. It’s the closest embodiment to what eternity might look like. She can’t see the end of it or the bottom of it. She can’t see the darkness of its expanse, but she knows there are creatures who have to live in it. Who think it’s normal.
- Your husband is not going to take care of you the way you think. Nobody can take care of you the way you need to take care of yourself. It’s your job to take care of yourself like that.
- 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.
- Very wedding, even a successful wedding, is a waste. 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.
- Becoming who you want to be is just like anything else. It takes practice. It requires belief that one day, you’ll wake up and be a natural at it.