Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 17 quotes from The Wedding People book by Alison Espach that I liked and saved while reading this book. I hope you will like these quotes too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
Quotes on Happiness
- When you are happy, everywhere is a happy place. And when you are sad, everywhere is a sad place.
- 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.
Other Quotes
- You really can’t ever know who you are going to become.
- 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.
- That is how it happens, she realizes. One moment of pretending to be great leads to the next moment of pretending to be great, and ten years later, she realizes she’s spent her entire life just pretending to be great.
- 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.
- If people could just stop using the word fun, stop expecting everything to be fun, everything could be fun again.
- Maybe this is just what it means to be a person. To constantly reckon with being a single being in one body.
- Some people don’t ask for what they need. Some people are like religious children that way, mistaking suffering with goodness.
- It’s not easy being angry at your own creation. It’s like being angry at yourself.
- If you do anything enough, that’s what it becomes. A ritual that has the power to make you feel something.
- 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.
- Love is visible – it paints the air between two people a different color, and everyone can see it.
- 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.
- She is so good at predicting what will happen in books, so bad at predicting what will happen in life. That is why she has always preferred books – because to be alive is much harder.