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Quotes by Joyce Rachelle

Some things sound better if they dont come from you.

Everything seems so small, so trivial, when youre on the right altitude.

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.

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

Be thankful when you find yourself worrying about the smallest things, for it often means there arent any bigger things to truly worry about.

Its because the door hasnt been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in.

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

When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or dont do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it.

Ambition is a stairway that never ends.

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

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

Frustration often steers you to the right path.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”