Brittany Phelps

“Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings, Corrie. It’s something we make inside ourselves.”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“One had followed the rules, and one had not. But the problem with rules... was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the time they were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure what side of the line you stood on.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl