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Miss Benson's Beetle
Rachel Joyce
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“You might travel to the other side of the world, but in the end it made no difference: whatever devastating unhappiness was inside you would come too.”
“Just because you've never done something doesn't mean you can't start.”
“She had travelled to the other side of the world, but the distance she'd covered inside herself was immeasurable.”
“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.”
“It struck her again: a life was such a short thing. All those things people carried, and struggled to carry, yet one day they would disappear, and so would the suffering inside them, and all that would be left was this. The trees, the moon, the dark.”
“It occurred to Marjery that this was how it was, that there was always darkness, and in this darkness was unspeakable suffering, and yet there were also the daily things -- there was even the search for a gold beetle -- and while they could not cancel the appalling horror, they were as real.”
“But there were moments of joy. Even at its worst, life will offer such moments.”
“she’d stuffed the boots beneath the mattress where she couldn’t see them, but it isn’t easy hiding something from yourself—ideally you need to be out of the room when you do it”
“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.”
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Book Keywords:
joy, trying, starting, beginning