Rachel Joyce Quotes

But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are.

After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges.

I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. the only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It’s like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it’s there and keep falling in. After a while, it’s still there, but you learn to walk round it.

But maybe it’s what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

He must have driven this way countless times, and yet he had no memory of the scenery. He must have been so caught up in the day’s agenda, and arriving punctually at their destination, that the land beyond the car had been no more than a wash of one green, and a backdrop of one hill. Life was very different when you walked through it.

You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don’t even know you can get there isn’t a small miracle; then I don’t know what is.

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.

The least planned part of the journey, however, was the journey itself.

If we can’t accept what we don’t know, there really is no hope.

If we don’t go mad once in a while, there’s no hope.

People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that.

There is so much to the human mind we don’t understand. But, you see, if you have faith, you can do anything.