“When you know a thing is wrong, you have to work very hard to stick with it.” — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“Despite his obligation to other people, he wished at that moment he had walls.” — Rachel Joyce Time Copy Share Image
“We hang on by so little, he thought, and felt the full despair of knowing that.” — Rachel Joyce Despair Copy Share Image
“He had started; and in doing so Harold could already see the end.” — Rachel Joyce Beginning 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 Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you have to do something with your pain because otherwise it will swallow you.” — Rachel Joyce Pain 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
“The people he met, the places he passed, were all steps in his journey, and he kept a place inside his heart… — 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 Copy Share Image
“His shirt, tie, and trousers were folded small as an apology on a faded blue-velvet chair.” — Rachel Joyce Apology Copy Share Image
He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness… — Rachel Joyce 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
“Beginnings could happen more than once, or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you… — Rachel Joyce Beginnings Copy Share Image
The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“In order to succeed he must remain true to the feeling that had inspired him in the first place. It didn’t matter… — Rachel Joyce First place 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
“That was why Peg loved the Messiah best of all. Because it showed people they were not alone. No matter about their… — Rachel Joyce Messiah Copy Share Image
“He looks at me gently, with you eyes, and he says, simply, 'I just want someone to see me, Q. See who… — Rachel Joyce 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
“He doesn’t know if the words they are using actually mean the things they purport to mean or whether the words have… — Rachel Joyce Words Copy Share Image
I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding… — Rachel Joyce Actor 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
“After that she paired each of her outfits with one of his. She tucked the cuff of her blouse in his blue… — Rachel Joyce 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 Copy Share Image
“The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply… — Rachel Joyce Life 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
“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
“He felt safe with what he had confided. It was the same with Queenie. You could say things in the car and… — Rachel Joyce 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 Copy Share Image
you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way. — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“He walked for surely it was as if all his life he had been waiting to get up from his chair.” — 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
“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’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
Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this… — Rachel Joyce Being human 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 Copy Share Image
“There were times, he saw, when not knowing was the biggest truth, and you had to stay with that.” — Rachel Joyce Time 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
