Joyce Rachelle Quotes

Don't stay in the harbour and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn't mean you have to be.

What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.

How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?

There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.

Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.

She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars.

One mistake is all they see.

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

Try staying awake for 24 hours and you'll realize just how many needless worries your mind instantly shuts out.

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

There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it.

Dear World, I exist.Deal with it.

Dear Teenage Self, That guy you're crazy about, Will ask you out On a dateIn about ten years, so don't fretYou'll get there yet.But fate is cruelOn that day, That feeling will have gone away.

There is more to hear in what is not said.

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.

Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them.

Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away?

If I don't talk about it, it's either very displeasing or very precious to me.

Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?

Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value.

She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely.

Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.

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

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

True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism.

It's a singular sort of pain, watching the most beautiful creature self-destruct because you weren't able to find the red wire.

Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.

It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in.

When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops.

When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable.

The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done.

There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb.

I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break.

Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones.

What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?

Frustration often steers you to the right path.

Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane.

You will do well not to write for money, not because you won't get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre.

Ambition is a stairway that never ends.

When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or don't do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it.

If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat.

May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself.

Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.

You won't stress over it unless you care.

I'm not an insomniac. It's just that my mind is in the best position to catch the weight of all hovering possibilities the moment I lie down.

Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.

Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.

Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell.

How did I prepare for night shifts? When I was a small, anxious kid, I checked my mom in her sleep to make sure she was still breathing.

Be thankful when you find yourself worrying about the smallest things, for it often means there aren't any bigger things to truly worry about.