A Few Favourite Quotes from The Wedding People

1 - 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.

2 - She doesn’t see the point in staying alive only to do all the same things that made her want to die.

3 - Some people are like religious children that way, mistaking suffering with goodness.

4 - It is nice the way everyone here keeps asking this, even if it’s just their job. Each time feels like another chance to practice asking for what she needs.

5 - Maybe this is the part of her life when she gets to start saying what she means, for better or worse. Because no amount of truth can be worse than the feeling she got after years of hiding from it.

6 - The wife is the reason the man becomes the architect. The mistress is the reason the architect keeps building.