Brittany Phelps

“It was so easy to find yourself doing the things in life you weren’t passionate about, to stick with them even when you didn’t want them and they hurt. But now the time for dreaming and wishing was over, and she was going. She was traveling to the other side of the world. It wasn’t just the ship that had been unmoored. It was her entire sense of herself.”
― Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

“We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“But no matter how awful life was, I would never want to give up. I would always want to keep living. Just waiting for that moment when it might get better. You need to remember that, Marge. You must never give up again.” She touched her belly. “We are not the things that happened to us. We can be what we like.”
― Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

“The truest friendships are those that allow us to step out of the confines of what we once were, and to realize instead what we might be.”
― Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle