#alison espach

[maybeimreadingabook]

The Wedding People, Alison Espach

[poppywright]

some books i read recently → the wedding people by alison espach

But Phoebe is starting to understand that on some nights, Lila is probably the loneliest girl in the world, just like Phoebe. And maybe they are all lonely. Maybe this is just what it means to be a person. To constantly reckon with being a single being in one body. Maybe everybody sits up at night and creates arguments in their head for why they are the loneliest person in the world.

+ how i pictured it: cristin milioti as phoebe, ella purnell as lila, jonathan bailey as gary, adam scott as matt, and leo woodall as jim

[untalented-but-opinionated]

Books I Loved In 2025: The Wedding People by Alison Espach

"Lila, every day this week, you gave me a reason to get up in the morning, to put on a beautiful dress and be part of something, and for that I will always be grateful."

[wordsthatmattered]

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.

- The Wedding People by Alison Espach

[epeolatryreader]

In the morning, when the power comes back on, the weatherman cuts through our house and wakes us all up. From my bed, I can hear him announcing what will happen to you: You will go north. You will become a tropical storm. You will make it all the way to Labrador, and that is where you will come apart. That is where your winds will spread over the ocean until you are no longer Kathy, until you are only air.

But you will return to us, I know. When we are repainting the house or making pancakes for breakfast or digging in the garden or laughing at something funny with our heads back and our mouths wide open–the way you always laughed–we will breathe you in without even knowing it.

— from Notes On Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach

[jennamacaroni]

Love is visible–it paints the air between two people a different color, and everyone can see it.

Alison Espach, "The Wedding People"

[chrstnlvly]

"Your husband is not going to take care of you the way you think," Phoebe says. "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."

—The Wedding People by Alison Espach

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read The Adults by Alison Espach (2011)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onNov 22, 2025