“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
“needed the very famous actor to know that you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it… — Rachel Joyce Actor Copy Share Image
“He had always been too English; by which he supposed he meant that he was ordinary.” — Rachel Joyce Ordinary Copy Share Image
“He had wanted more than he could physically give, and so his walk had become a battle against himself, and he had… — Rachel Joyce Battle Copy Share Image
I've begun to think that we sit far more than we're supposed to...Why else would we have feet? — Rachel Joyce Feet 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
“But sometimes you don’t say the word because you think a thing is ongoing when actually it is already over. The” — Rachel Joyce Language 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
“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
“Sie glaubten an ihn. Sie hatten ihn in seinen Segelschuhen angesehen, hatten zugehoert, was er sagte, und hatten mit Herz und Verstand… — Rachel Joyce Welt Copy Share Image
“He had been guilty once or twice of believing he understood, only to discover he did not... There were times, he saw,… — Rachel Joyce Faith Copy Share Image
“That's what nobody realizes. Two seconds are huge. It's the difference between something happening and something not happening. You could take one… — Rachel Joyce Time 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
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
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
“Houses don't clean themselves, she'd mutter. Sometimes she cleaned the bits she had just cleaned. It wasn't like living in a house,… — Rachel Joyce Cleaned Copy Share Image
“Besides, the big things in life do not present themselves as such. They come in the quiet, ordinary moments-- a phone call,… — Rachel Joyce Big things Copy Share Image
“Harold believed his journey was truly beginning. He had thought it started the moment he decided to walk to Berwick, but he… — Rachel Joyce Beginning Copy Share Image
“The fact was, it was safer to stay uninvolved. He was perfectly fine with emotions, so long as they belonged to other… — Rachel Joyce Art of life 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
“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'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life. — Rachel Joyce Drawn Copy Share Image
“The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday.” — Rachel Joyce Hard work Copy Share Image
There is so much to the human mind we don't understand. But, you see, if you have faith, you can do anything. — Rachel Joyce Faith Copy Share Image
“There was something about her, something pure and fluid that could not be contained.” — Rachel Joyce Contained 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 Dance 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
I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it. — Rachel Joyce Heads Copy Share Image
For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to. — Rachel Joyce Away 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
“The sky and the sun are always there. It’s the clouds that come and go. Stop holding on to yourself, and look… — Rachel Joyce Clouds Copy Share Image
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“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
Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself. — Rachel Joyce Actor Copy Share Image
But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are. — Rachel Joyce Difficult Copy Share Image
People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the… — Rachel Joyce Buying 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 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
This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over… — Rachel Joyce Again Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Sussex said Byron’s loss would grow more bearable. But here was the nub: he didn’t want to lose his loss. Loss… — Rachel Joyce Grief Copy Share Image
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