Joyce Rachelle Quotes

If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.
Joyce Rachelle
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.
Joyce Rachelle
Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.
Joyce Rachelle
One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge.
Joyce Rachelle
Remember the friends who stuck with you when they thought you had nothing.
Joyce Rachelle
If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books.
Joyce Rachelle
Dear World,I exist.Deal with it.
Joyce Rachelle
If I don't talk about it, it's either very displeasing or very precious to me.
Joyce Rachelle
Yes you have returnedAnd things are as they wereBut this you cannot hide,A part of you has died.
Joyce Rachelle
The horizon changes but the sun does not.
Joyce Rachelle
One mistake is all they see.
Joyce Rachelle
Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?""My favorite character died.
Joyce Rachelle
You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.
Joyce Rachelle
Even the enemy needs permission from God to do what he wants with you.
Joyce Rachelle
There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb.
Joyce Rachelle
Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice.
Joyce Rachelle
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.
Joyce Rachelle
Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value.
Joyce Rachelle
When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable.
Joyce Rachelle
Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.
Joyce Rachelle
Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.
Joyce Rachelle
Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time is spent on something else.
Joyce Rachelle
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.
Joyce Rachelle
Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones.
Joyce Rachelle
Much of what I learned about forgiveness I learned by inhabiting the lives of my characters. Even villains act with reasonable intent. Mercy is easier with understanding. Still, it helps that on paper I can kill them off.
Joyce Rachelle
I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.
Joyce Rachelle
Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them.
Joyce Rachelle
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.
Joyce Rachelle
She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely.
Joyce Rachelle
The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.
Joyce Rachelle
Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.
Joyce Rachelle
It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.
Joyce Rachelle
Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.
Joyce Rachelle
If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat.
Joyce Rachelle
Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.
Joyce Rachelle
You won't stress over it unless you care.
Joyce Rachelle
There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.
Joyce Rachelle
Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.
Joyce Rachelle
I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break.
Joyce Rachelle
When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B.
Joyce Rachelle
Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter.
Joyce Rachelle
You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want.
Joyce Rachelle
If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room.
Joyce Rachelle
Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do.
Joyce Rachelle
If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.
Joyce Rachelle
It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.
Joyce Rachelle
It's only awkward if it matters.
Joyce Rachelle
Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.
Joyce Rachelle
It's not about the extent to which something happened or did not happen; it's whether we choose to confront evil and call it what it is, or simply let it pass because it 'wasn't enough of a big deal.
Joyce Rachelle
Not all friends know they have lost you.
Joyce Rachelle
Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane.
Joyce Rachelle
Always make an effort to be around people who will help you grow.
Joyce Rachelle
I am bothered by poems I don't understand.
Joyce Rachelle
Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else.
Joyce Rachelle
How strange it is beholding this,and, very confident,proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.
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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.
Joyce Rachelle
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.
Joyce Rachelle
There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about.
Joyce Rachelle
If you can't give it all you've got, don't bother.
Joyce Rachelle
There will always be one or two things bothering the person next to you. And if that person happens to be looking heavenward, it’s because it helps us to remind ourselves that God is bigger than our problems.
Joyce Rachelle