Phoebe Morgan > Quotes

“But I don’t think obsession is something you develop, or get rid of. You’re born with it – you either have it or you don’t.”
― Phoebe Morgan, The Babysitter

“We all alter our own versions of events, we spin our own histories, smoothing things over and playing things up, exaggerating and minimising as we see fit. We are flawed, we humans.”
― Phoebe Morgan, The Wild Girls

“As everyone around me moves forward – having babies, getting married, buying houses, moving (...) – I have stayed still. Worse than still – sinking.”
― Phoebe Morgan, The Wild Girls

“Sometimes I wish I was the kind of person who had the ability to do that for others – make them feel wanted, special. I don’t think I inspire that in anybody.”
― Phoebe Morgan, The Wild Girls

“It’s typical, really; I’ve spent so long keeping myself apart from the world, and now that I want in, I’m being shut out.”
― Phoebe Morgan, The Wild Girls

“There are people in the world who get away with everything and anything – they will always be forgiven.”
― Phoebe Morgan, The Wild Girls

“That was the night they stopped trusting one another, but if she’s honest, the cracks were formed long before. Perhaps they had always been there, ready to splinter, just waiting for the right moment, the point at which all four of them saw each other for what they were.”
― Phoebe Morgan, The Wild Girls

“I don’t like feeling in debt to her, or to anyone.”
― Phoebe Morgan, The Babysitter