“He walked so surely it was as if all his life he had been waiting to get up from his chair.” — Rachel Joyce Life Copy Share Image
“He wished the man would honor the true meaning of words, instead of using them as ammunition.” — Rachel Joyce Language Copy Share Image
“Music comes out of silence and at the end it goes back to it. It's a journey. You see?” — Rachel Joyce Journey Copy Share Image
“It was hard to have been her guest. It was hard to understand a little and then walk away.” — Rachel Joyce Guest Copy Share Image
But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith. — Rachel Joyce Faith Copy Share Image
“If we can't be open... if we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.” — Rachel Joyce Accept Copy Share Image
“Pardon me, but you are here to live until you die. There is a significant difference.” I” — Rachel Joyce Live Copy Share Image
“Maybe it was the walking. Maybe you saw even more than the land when you got out of the car and used… — Rachel Joyce Walking Copy Share Image
“It surprised him that he was remembering all this. Maybe it was the walking. Maybe you saw even more than the land… — Rachel Joyce Remembering Copy Share Image
I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not… — Rachel Joyce Appealing Copy Share Image
you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way. — Rachel Joyce Able Copy Share Image
“Frank was so busy loving other people he had no room to accommodate the fact that someone might turn around one day… — Rachel Joyce Frank Copy Share Image
“I’m a postwar child, Kate. We don’t talk up our achievements, and we don’t throw things away. It’s how we were brought… — Rachel Joyce Child Copy Share Image
“To live without her would be like scooping out the vital parts of himself, and he would be no more than a… — Rachel Joyce Fragile Copy Share Image
“I always got cross with Elizabeth for leaving the top off the toothpaste. Now I throw it away as soon as I… — Rachel Joyce Toothpaste Copy Share Image
I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where… — Rachel Joyce After Copy Share Image
I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see… — Rachel Joyce About Copy Share Image
I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist… — Rachel Joyce Admit Copy Share Image
“As time passed and he found his rhythm, he began to feel more certain. England opened beneath his feet, and the feeling… — Rachel Joyce Feeling Copy Share Image
“I admit I am wearing the wrong clothes. And I also admit I have not the training, or the physique, for my… — Rachel Joyce Fitness Copy Share Image
We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about… — Rachel Joyce About Copy Share Image
“Stories are important. We need them. It is through telling and hearing stories that we make sense of the world. Like dreams,… — Rachel Joyce Dreams Copy Share Image
“he chose a small paperweight containing a model of the cathedral that covered itself in glitter when he tipped it upside down.… — Rachel Joyce Strange but true Copy Share Image
“Maureen watched them all. This was how it was, she thought. People would find one another, and sometimes it would last moments… — Rachel Joyce Dance floor Copy Share Image
“It was Haydn and Mozart who really cracked the sonata, but it was Beethoven who reinvented it, just as he reinvented the… — Rachel Joyce Beethoven Copy Share Image
“your unlikely pilgrimage and, indeed, the courage of the woman who sat in silence and waited for you. They have caused me… — Rachel Joyce Courage Copy Share Image
“You ease a record from its cover. It's years since you've held one but you do this without thinking. Slide your fingers… — Rachel Joyce Middle finger Copy Share Image
... He went under the stars, and the tender light of the moon, when it hung like an eyelash and the tree… — Rachel Joyce Beard Copy Share Image
“IT HAD NEVER been such a beautiful May. Every day the sky shone a peerless blue, untouched by cloud. Already, the gardens… — Rachel Joyce Daisies Copy Share Image
“He had learned that it was the smallness of people that filled him with wonder and tenderness, and the loneliness of that… — Rachel Joyce Life Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t just 1) the artwork and sleeve notes on the album sleeve. It wasn’t 2) the possibility of a hidden track,… — Rachel Joyce Song Copy Share Image
If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope. — Rachel Joyce Accept Copy Share Image
“Sometimes caring for something already growing is more perilous than planting something new.” — Rachel Joyce Compassion Copy Share Image
“You think there will be a time to say goodbye, but people have often gone before you know about it.” — Rachel Joyce Gone Copy Share Image
I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it. — Rachel Joyce Heads Copy Share Image
“There was something about her, something pure and fluid that could not be contained.” — Rachel Joyce Contained Copy Share Image
“He had always been too English; by which he supposed he meant that he was ordinary.” — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges. — Rachel Joyce Drink Copy Share Image
