I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt. — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“There was something about her, something pure and fluid that could not be contained.” — Rachel Joyce 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 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
“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 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
My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“For a while it there was only the silence that carried her words. It struck Harold afresh how life could change in… — 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 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
“Not a day has gone by when I have not thought of you. There was a time when I wished it would… — Rachel Joyce Forgetting 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 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
“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
“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 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
I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life. — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“He had always been too English; by which he supposed he meant that he was ordinary.” — Rachel Joyce 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 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
“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
But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are. — Rachel Joyce 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
“After several hours, he realized he had been so lost in remembering and mourning the past, he had wasted two miles heading… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“Even when it's sunny I can't enjoy it. I think to myself, Oh yes, it's nice now, but it's not going to… — Rachel Joyce Rain 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 Copy Share Image
For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to. — Rachel Joyce 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 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 Copy Share Image
The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page.… — Rachel Joyce Characters Copy Share Image
“Again he felt in a profound way that he was both inside and outside what he saw; that he was bith connected,… — Rachel Joyce 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 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 Copy Share Image
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