Phoebe > Phoebe's Quotes

“I am not a cynic, but I do know that history is the propaganda of the victors.”
― Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin filmscript

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen