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Quotes by Joyce Rachelle

I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.

They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesnt pay by the hour.

I am bothered by poems I dont understand.

If we cant have world peace, Ill settle for a quiet room.

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.

Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.

Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?My favorite character died.

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

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

If you cant give it all youve got, dont bother.

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.

Not everything youre good at is what youre called to do.

Theres something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if its facing a river, thats the bench for me.

I know I cant own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.

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.

Some scars dont hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.

Even the enemy needs permission from God to do what he wants with you.

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

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

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