“IT HAD NEVER been such a beautiful May. Every day the sky shone a peerless blue, untouched by cloud. Already, the gardens… — Rachel Joyce Every day Copy Share Image
After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges. — Rachel Joyce Drink Copy Share Image
“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 must have driven this way countless times, and yet he had no memory of the scenery. He must have been so… — Rachel Joyce Agendas Copy Share Image
“He saw the reflection of her face in a compact mirror as she painted on her re lips. She did it with… — Rachel Joyce Life Copy Share Image
“I can't explain why I think I can get there, when all the odds are against me. But I do. Even when… — Rachel Joyce Inspirational 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 Copy Share Image
In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to… — Rachel Joyce About 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
“We are at the centre of our own stories. And sometimes it is hard to believe that we are not at the… — Rachel Joyce Hard to believe 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
Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you… — Rachel Joyce Business Copy Share Image
“As time passed and he found his rhythm, he began to feel more certain. England opened up beneath his feet, and the… — Rachel Joyce Caminantes 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 Copy Share Image
“There was something about her, something pure and fluid that could not be contained.” — Rachel Joyce 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 Children Copy Share Image
“...the vivid past would not go away. Like music, said Peg. Even when it was over, it kept living inside you.” — Rachel Joyce Music Copy Share Image
“After several hours, he realized he had been so lost in remembering and mourning the past, he had wasted two miles heading… — Rachel Joyce Caminantes Copy Share Image
You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don't even know you can get… — Rachel Joyce Miracle 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 Hope 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
“He knew he was going to reach Berwick, and that all he had to do was to place one foot in front… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking… — Rachel Joyce Always Copy Share Image
“He watched the squares of buttery light inside the houses, and people going about their business. He thought of how they would… — Rachel Joyce Business Copy Share Image
“The regrets about all she had let go flooded her. Where had all that enterprise gone? All that energy? Why had she… — Rachel Joyce Business Copy Share Image
