Phoebe > Phoebe's Quotes

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“It's wild to miss someone so much, and yet in order to care for them you have to constantly say goodbye.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“And I know the past isn't a mirror image of the future, but it's a reflection of what can be; and when your first love breaks your heart, the shards of that can draw blood for a long, long time.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“Whatever we are to become, I'm glad that we can laugh through the uncomfortable moments.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“Where we come from leaves its fingerprints all over us, and if you know how to read the signs of a place, you know a little bit more who someone is.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“Cooking is about respect. Respect for the food, respect for your space, respect for your colleqgues and respect for your diners. The chef who ignores one of those is not a chef at all.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“Of course I worry too much,” Nate said. “But I’m usually right. The people who worry are always right. That’s how that works.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly Devious

“It was like she had been punched in the gut. Stevie said stuff like that all the time and was told she was wrong. David said it once and got a nod and a compliment.
Oh, the magic of dudes. If only they bottled it.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly, Devious

“Albert Ellingham said knowledge was his religion and libraries were his church, so he built a church.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly Devious

“What you lack in any investigation is time. With every passing hour, evidence slips away. Crime scenes are compromised by people and the elements. Things are moved, altered, smeared, shifted. Organisms rot. Wind blows dust and contaminants. Memories change and fade. As you move away from the event, you move away from the solution.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly, Devious

“Did they know that Arthur Conan Doyle went on to investigate mysteries in his real life and absolved a man for a crime for which he has been convicted? Did they know how Agatha Christie brilliantly staged her own disappearance in order to exact an elegant revenge on a cheating husband? They probably did not. And no one was going to discount Stevie Bell, who had gotten into this school on the wings of her interest in the Ellingham case, and who had been a bystander at a death that was now looking more and more suspicious.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly, Devious