Phoebe Quotes

“What have you done to your hair?” Mom’s broken voice said, pinning me back to this tiny hospitalroom.“Holy shit!” Icka patted her head as if searching. “You think the nurse stole it? She looked shady.”

“I have read that long ago there was a land of glass castles that sank beneath the sea. It was not called Atlantis, but Lyonesse. This happened before history and across the ocean, but when I was little I wondered about that place, how it could be so beautiful and so lost. Sometimes it seemed that the land around my New England home was like that flooded country, with mud where the streets of gold should be and mayflies swarming where there should be lovely fishes, but here and there a shard of crystal to call the heart to beauty. --"Wetlands," in Phoebe.”

“And Phoebe and Sebastian went their separate ways, to the blacksmith shop and the library, after several backward glances that weren't coordinated enough to allow either to know that the other one was looking.”

“One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.”

“Natural beauty products are a must! I use coconut oil-based RMS makeup, and I slather almond oil on my hands to soak while I watch a movie.”

“I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.”

“All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today.”

“Only yield when you must never "give up the ship " but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!"”

“All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today.”

“All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today.”