Joyce Rachelle Quotes

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

Writers don't forget the past; they turn it into raw material.

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.

What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.

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.

You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want.

For a storyteller, an open ending leaves much room for imagination; for the inquisitive reader, however, it is a source of great anxiety.

Ambition is a stairway that never ends.

There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about.

If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.

How difficult it is to find solitude in a world that constantly demands your attention.

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.

We all grow tired eventually; it happens to everyone. Even the sun, at the close of the year, is no longer a morning person.

In the fancy spectacle of life, aspire to find a joy that does not need an audience.

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

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

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.

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

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

There is more to hear in what is not said.

Where you go when you travel is as important as where you are in your life when you do.

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.

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 you don't like it, say something.

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

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.

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.

If you think about life simply as one big waiting room for eternity, who cares if it's not fully air conditioned?

I get my best writing done when I'm supposed to be doing something else entirely. And that's why I keep my day job.

When I told you I loved that song, you were meant to listen.

I've lived on the equator all my life and we never had to change clocks. Now they're telling me time goes forward an hour after midnight? What is this, Narnia?

Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice.

No sound is more ominous than the silence of a patient man.

When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B.

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.

They told me I've got writer's cramp. So is that better than the block?

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.

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

Always make an effort to be around people who will help you grow.

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

Life is about getting the right proportions of warm concern and cool indifference.

If this cursed and fallen world
holds such beauty as what I see,
Imagine the beauty of paradise
that's gladly waiting for me.

For in that perfect garden when one day entered sin,
An animal was murdered for garments made of skin.
When figs of human effort produced religious strife,
The Father tailored clothing for Adam and his wife.

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'.

We don't usually wish we were invisible unless, for some extreme reason, we were noticed first.

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

Books. It's always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the punchline of a joke that character would've said. But if we all simply told, books would cease to exist. And so would empathy. And feeling.

The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.

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

Yes you have returned
And things are as they were
But this you cannot hide,
A part of you has died.

Whoever says sleep equals laziness is probably a bitter insomniac.

Most often when I stammer
That's my brain
Correcting my grammer.

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

But men are bound to say
Some things that, though untrue,
Will get you down the aisle
Until you say "I do.

Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.

Frustration often steers you to the right path.

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.

One cannot prevent abuse through discipline, when abuse and discipline feel exactly the same.

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.

Dear Teenage Self,

That guy you're crazy about,
Will ask you out
On a date
In about ten years, so don't fret
You'll get there yet.
But fate is cruel
On that day,
That feeling will have gone away.

Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.

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

When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, she will be surprised to know that there is a volatile, often antagonistic force in the real world known as the weather.

Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels.

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

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

Until I looked outside I could not see the universe was standing by for me.

The only time I get headaches is when my alarm clock makes me wake up before noon. Now that's my version of morning sickness.

The praise and glorification of God doesn't exclusively spring from deep and untroubled understanding; it is in spite of – and even because of – deep and troubled circumstance.

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

All good things must come to an end. That's why they're called good things -- otherwise they're just... ordinary.

I think we each have a certain number of unnecessary apologies, which we willingly dish out before we realize it's time to stand and fight. I may still have two or three left.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.

A shout for help isn't always a cry of pain; sometimes it is a hymn of praise.

There is never enough time to enjoy what you love.

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

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

If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.

If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.

It's only awkward if it matters.

I am bothered by poems I don't understand.

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

God blows on the leaves, they turn to gold, and we call it autumn.

It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.

And with the Savior's passing came Satan's sure defeat
Christ whispered, "It is finished," for payment was complete.
I could not earn salvation, it's been dispensed for free
And mercy's gates would open, as He has died for me.