Joyce Rachelle

“Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.”

“Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself.”

“As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.”

“Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump.”

“We like to think we're in control but we never are.”

“Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.”

“Life did come with a manual.”

“The horizon changes but the sun does not.”

“I had no money to start,For Jack decreed in his pride:The Caveman's wife didn't work - It was his job to provide.A brief reminder right here:Let men believe they are shrewd,But even women of oldEmbroidered mittens for food.”

“There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.”

“Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else.”

“Some things sound better if they don't come from you.”

“I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping the physical presence of the best among multitudes. And I only have one shelf.”

“Not all friends know they have lost you.”

“But that was just a shadow of what would come to pass:When one appointed season Christ came to die at last.And in the name of justice they flogged him like a thief,But willing was the victim of human disbelief.”

“Life is a curriculum unique to every student.”

“Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.”

“Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.”

“Remember the friends who stuck with you when they thought you had nothing.”

“Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter.”