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“I think you know how to love better than any of us. That's why you find it all so painful.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“Women are born with pain built in. It's our physical destiny. Period pains, sore boobs, child birth, you know. We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives. Men don't. They have to seek it out. “Women are born with pain built in,” she says. “It’s our physical destiny: period pains, sore boobs, childbirth, you know. We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives, men don’t. They have to seek it out, they invent all these gods and demons and things just so they can feel guilty about things, which is something we do very well on our own. And then they create wars so they can feel things and touch each other and when there aren’t any wars they can play rugby.
We have it all going on in here inside.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“Love is awful. It’s awful. It’s painful. It’s frightening. It makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from the other people in your life. Makes you selfish. Makes you creepy. It makes you obsessed with your hair. Makes you cruel. Makes you say and do things you never thought you would do.

It’s all any of us want, and it’s hell when we get there. So no wonder it’s something we don’t want to do on our own.

I was taught if we’re born with love, then life is about choosing the right place to put it. People talk about that a lot. It 'feeling right'. 'When it feels right, it’s easy.' But I’m not sure that’s true. It takes strength to know what’s right.

And love isn’t something that weak people do. Being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope. I think what they mean is... When you find somebody that you love... it feels like hope.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“FLEABAG (CONT’D)

I love you.
They sit with the words.
Pause. She looks at him.
He takes her hand.

PRIEST

(gently)
It’ll pass.
Beat.
She smiles.
Beat.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“Fleabag: I have a horrible feeling I'm a greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical, depraved, mannish-looking, morally bankrupt woman who can't even call herself a feminist.
Dad: Well... You get all that from your mother.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Original Play

“-I don't know what to do with it -
-With what?
-With all the love I have for her. I don't know...where to - put it now.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“Being proper and sweet and nice and pleasing is a fucking nightmare. It’s exhausting. As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl – how to be a good, pretty girl – from such an early age. Then, at the same time, we’re told that well-behaved girls won’t change the world or ever make a splash. So it’s sort of like, well, what the fuck am I supposed to be? I’m supposed to be a really polite revolutionary?” Phoebe Waller-Bridge spreads her arms and starts to laugh. “It’s impossible.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“People are all we've got.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“Don't make me an optimist, you will ruin my life!”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“Ideal reading experience? Wine. Armchair. Raining. Or reading in the same room as someone else who’s reading. It’s rare, but there’s a particular sort of peace to it.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“That's the very reason why they put rubbers on the end of pencils...Because people make mistakes.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“(gently)
It'll pass.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“That's why they put rubbers on the ends of pencils.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Original Play

“I'm not obsessed with sex. I just can't stop thinking about it.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Original Play

“I started out reading as an escape, then a chore, then a habit, then a luxury. Only now I've realised what a necessity it is.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“I’m a big reader with no friends.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“Here's to peace. And those who get in the way of it.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Original Play

“I just think I want someone to tell me how to live my life, Father, because so far, I think I've been getting it wrong.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“No, I think I'll just deal with this in my own insane, irrational, anal way, if that's OK.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“You may not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“Don't make me hate you. Loving you is painful enough.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“The funeral liturgy says that life is changed and not ended. I've always loved that, if that's of any help.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“[Love] is all any of us want and it's hell when we get there. So no wonder it's something we don't want to do on our own.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“That pretty much nailed that, and it was pretty late by now, so I dragged myself upstairs and got into my office – or… my bed – and tried to work on the figures for the café. I run a guinea-pig-themed café. But it’s out of cash and it’s going to close unless a cheque falls out of the sky, or a banker comes on my arse, but neither are going to happen, and I don’t want to dignify the banker-man with a proper mention so I’m not going to talk about him or how I do sometimes wish I could own up to not having morals and just let him come on my arse for ten thousand pounds, but apparently we’re ‘not supposed to do that’, so okay. I won’t. Even though it would solve everything. I won’t.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Original Play

“you don't read the news" "yes, I do" "what happened yesterday?" "Sting wore white jeans and a puppy got stuck in a fan”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“I sometimes worry that I wouldn't be such a feminist if I had bigger tits.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how).
Wine. Armchair. Raining. Or reading in the same room as someone else who's reading. It's rare, but there's a particular sort of peace to it.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“People are all we’ve got. So grab the night by its nipples and go flirt with someone.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“Fleabag is the underbelly of our feminism, which is just as real as the glossy top coat.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Original Play

“Love is awful. It’s awful. It’s painful. It’s frightening. It makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from the other people in your life. It makes you selfish. It makes you creepy, makes you obsessed with your hair, makes you cruel, makes you say and do things you never thought you would do. It’s all any of us want, and it’s hell when we get there. So no wonder it’s something we don’t want to do on our own. I was taught if we’re born with love then life is about choosing the right place to put it. People talk about that a lot, feeling right, when it feels right it’s easy. But I’m not sure that’s true. It takes strength to know what’s right. And love isn’t something that weak people do. Being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope. I think what they mean is, when you find somebody that you love, it feels like hope.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Original Play