Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to… — Rachel Joyce Any Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at… — Rachel Joyce About Copy Share Image
“You have to believe. That's what I think. It's not about medicine and all that stuff. You have to believe a person… — Rachel Joyce Faith 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
“Maybe the clever people are not the ones who think they’re clever. Maybe the clever people are the ones who accept that… — Rachel Joyce Clever People Copy Share Image
“I never saw you without a golf club tie. I never saw you with a golf club. I never saw you without… — Rachel Joyce Golf Copy Share Image
“I don’t push it and I don’t hang about. If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
There was no escaping what he had realized as he fought for warmth in the night. With or without him,the moon and… — Rachel Joyce Differences Copy Share Image
“He had learned that it was the smallness of people that filled him with wonder and tenderness, putting one foot in front… — Rachel Joyce Life Copy Share Image
My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced… — Rachel Joyce Big Copy Share Image
“He had always been too English; by which he supposed he meant that he was ordinary.” — Rachel Joyce 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
“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
“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
“I always got cross with Elizabeth for leaving the top off the toothpaste. Now I throw it away as soon as I… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we reject the people who tell the truth and it is not because they are wrong. It is because we can’t… — Rachel Joyce Truth Copy Share Image
“Jazz was about the spaces between notes. It was about what happened when you listened to the thing inside you. The gaps… — Rachel Joyce Jazz 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 Praise god Copy Share Image
“She had touched life, played with it a little, but it is a slippery bugger, and finally we must close the door,… — Rachel Joyce Life 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
“It was hard to have been her guest. It was hard to understand a little and then walk away.” — Rachel Joyce Learning 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
“Sometimes I think depression must be like a dance in your head and anything can trigger it, if you know that dance.” — Rachel Joyce Depression 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
“To live without her would be like scooping out the vital parts of himself, and he would be no more than a… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
