Beauty Quote by Jennifer Egan

“But sometimes I look at Phoebe and I think about how she had a bird inside her heart. On the outside, she’s just like…

— Beth Revis

“Phoebe burst into tears. For several minutes she stood weeping in the middle of the road, the choking, gulping sobs of childhood. Something was…

— Jennifer Egan

“I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way all Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling, I…

— J.D. Salinger

“ There didn't seem to be that much to say. If you loved Phoebe now, it was going to hurt you to see her.…

— Tim Farrington

“There were silences as murmurous as sound. There were pauses that seemed about to shatter and were only to be snatched back to oblivion…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Phoebe realized how very wrong she’d been about this house, this family. It was far darker, more dangerous than the places she’d grown up…

— Jennifer McMahon

“And Phoebe saw, with a dreadful clarity, that in the end she'd failed to interest her mother enough, failed to hold her attention. Some…

— Jennifer Egan

“Nell wagged her feathery tail. It was good when the goddess descended from the clouds and spoke to you; it gave you a cozy…

— D.E. Stevenson

“...she thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who were cold, who were reluctant, who…

— Daphne du Maurier

“This vision tumbled over Phoebe with the force of revelation: she would stand somewhere and look back, she would live a life.”

— Jennifer Egan

“It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The…

— Wilkie Collins

“She was like the dust that clung to his shirt. She was in the silences that had become so frequent at the house, silences…

— Khaled Hosseini