Cities Quote by Graham Joyce

“He looked like a once-green leaf that had begun to dry and to reveal the structure of its veins.”

— Graham Joyce

Why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?

— Graham Joyce

Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.

— Graham Joyce

“The most extraordinary thing about it all was how simple it was just to carry on. There were meals to be prepared and eaten;…

— Graham Joyce

“Someone said that thirty was a significant birthday, and everyone around the table agreed. Someone else said it was the first time you heard…

— Graham Joyce

The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.

— Graham Joyce

If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak…

— Graham Joyce

“And there was Tara, again with that shy half-smile and her burgundy lips slightly puckered, that shy kink, an incomplete curlicue at the corner…

— Graham Joyce

“The sun was up and I want to say that it was golden, but it wasn't golden, it was the color of treacle. I…

— Graham Joyce

The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

— Graham Joyce

“There is no "mid" about it. Life is a crisis from the cradle to the grave.”

— Graham Joyce

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

— Graham Joyce