Phoebe Pugh > Phoebe's Quotes

“Plus, if someone is doing community service for a pat on the back, then they’re wasting their time. Giving of yourself or your money is meaningless if you’re only doing it because you want to be seen or praised.”
― Melody Anne, Surrender

“I’m sorry, I meant to say, ‘This is Alexandra, who has agreed to fill my evening with witty banter and interesting observations on the arts, mathematics, and string theory. That she looks good while doing so is irrelevant.”
― Rachel Grant, Concrete Evidence

“She had learned that evil had the fattest wallet and most chaste face of all.”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“Every time I try to play by rules I get smashed into the ground.”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“Now Josie knew she kept them to remind her that broken things can be mended, but there is always a scar.”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“But love him? No. She was broken somewhere inside. She couldn’t love like other people.”
― Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness

“She’d always imagined life would get better as she grew older.  She would get wiser, discover things, make friends, find the way to her own happiness and out of the misery. Now she realized it wouldn’t happen.  She’d been born cursed and would die cursed and never understand why.  There was nothing to hope for, no happiness ahead. ”
― J.L. Bryan, Jenny Pox

“Phylogenesis is the mechanical cause of ontogenesis.1 In other words, the development of the stem, or race, is, in accordance with the laws of heredity and adaptation, the cause of all the changes which appear in a condensed form in the evolution of the fœtus.”
― Ernst Haeckel, The Evolution of Man

“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
― Raymond Carver