Phoebe Thompson > Quotes

“Car horns honked and the sun tried its best to peek through gray clouds and pedestrians obeyed traffic lights.”
― Phoebe Thompson, Girls Our Age

“Who was to say that her singlehood precluded her from understanding what was best for Ana—what was best for any of them? “Maybe I can see it more clearly because I’m not in a relationship.”
― Phoebe Thompson, Girls Our Age

“I’m still just a girl, I feel exactly like I did at seventeen, I don’t know what I want, it’s not easy to have needs, I don’t know if I’ll ever find someone”
― Phoebe Thompson, Girls Our Age

“Because some of us put a lot of work into figuring out who we are instead of just letting life do its thing to us, and it’s kind of lazy to just stay with him because you’re afraid of your options.”
― Phoebe Thompson, Girls Our Age

“No one had wronged her, and she wasn’t about to start blaming other people for problems that were hers.”
― Phoebe Thompson, Girls Our Age

“Making things harder for yourself because you think it’s kinder to those around you is not a very honest way to live.”
― Phoebe Thompson, Girls Our Age

“Anyway, I just think it’s fucked up that we act like a woman’s greatest accomplishment is landing a husband and planning a wedding.”
― Phoebe Thompson, Girls Our Age

“and her brother now that they were grown. Lily knew that when her mom eventually died, she would lose a piece of herself so significant that she’d spend the rest of her life trying her hardest to relearn who she was.”
― Phoebe Thompson, Girls Our Age

“You act like I should be better than you and not care about the stuff you care about, but you should have thought of that when you told me I looked pudgy after a summer at camp, or when you told me my hair was a color that would look mousy when I got older, or when you said that Ana wasn’t as pretty as my high school friends, or when you said that Dad was going to upgrade to a younger model back when he still loved you for being you, and then you made it happen, and he wouldn’t have done that if you could have just believed that you were as good as you obviously”
― Phoebe Thompson, Girls Our Age