Top 100 Joyce Rachelle Quotes
#1. The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.
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#2. Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter.
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#3. A shout for help isn't always a cry of pain; sometimes it is a hymn of praise.
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#4. How difficult it is to find solitude in a world that constantly demands your attention.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones.
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#9. What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?
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#10. If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.
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#11. Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.
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#12. Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value.
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#13. When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B.
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#14. It's a singular sort of pain, watching the most beautiful creature self-destruct because you weren't able to find the red wire.
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#15. It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in.
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#16. 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.
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#17. I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break.
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#18. 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.
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#19. It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.
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#20. 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.
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#21. Try staying awake for 24 hours and you'll realize just how many needless worries your mind instantly shuts out.
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#22. If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.
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#23. 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.
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#24. Don't stay in the harbour and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn't mean you have to be.
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#25. Even the enemy needs permission from God to do what he wants with you.
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#28. Yes you have returned
And things are as they were
But this you cannot hide,
A part of you has died.
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#29. There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb.
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#30. Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them.
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#31. Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.
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#32. But men are bound to say
Some things that, though untrue,
Will get you down the aisle
Until you say "I do.
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#33. 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.
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#34. 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.
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#35. 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.
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#36. Always make an effort to be around people who will help you grow.
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#37. Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?
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#38. If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.
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#39. If you think about life simply as one big waiting room for eternity, who cares if it's not fully air conditioned?
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#40. If this cursed and fallen world
holds such beauty as what I see,
Imagine the beauty of paradise
that's gladly waiting for me.
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#41. There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about.
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#42. Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.
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#43. They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.
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#44. Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.
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#45. But that was just a shadow of what would come to pass:
When one appointed season Christ came to die at last.
And in the name of justice they flogged him like a thief,
But willing was the victim of human disbelief.
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#46. You can do everything right and still feel out of place.
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#47. Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.
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#48. Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.
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#49. 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.
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#51. May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself.
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#52. 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?
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#53. The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done.
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#54. Everything seems so small, so trivial, when you're on the right altitude.
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#55. 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.
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#56. True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism.
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#57. 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.
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#59. Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.
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#60. As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.
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#61. Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?"
"My favorite character died.
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#62. She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely.
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#63. I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.
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#64. Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.
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#65. We are semipermeable membranes. We can pick and choose which troubles are worthy of our attention. What sinks us can only do so with our permission; a boat stays afloat until the water gets in.
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#66. 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 old
Embroidered mittens for food.
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#67. Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.
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#68. When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable.
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#71. 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.
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#72. What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.
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#73. 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.
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#74. Writers don't forget the past; they turn it into raw material.
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#75. For a storyteller, an open ending leaves much room for imagination; for the inquisitive reader, however, it is a source of great anxiety.
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#76. 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.
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#77. I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.
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#78. They told me I've got writer's cramp. So is that better than the block?
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#79. Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else.
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#80. 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.
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#81. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice.
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#82. There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it.
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#83. 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.
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#84. She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.
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#85. She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars.
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#86. 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.
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#87. Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.
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#88. 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.
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#89. If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat.
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#90. 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.
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#91. Most often when I stammer
That's my brain
Correcting my grammer.
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#92. 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.
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#93. Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels.
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#94. 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.
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#95. Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell.
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#96. Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.
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#98. 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'.
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#99. If you can't write, read.
If you can't read, walk.
Or walk and read, then write.
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#100. It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.
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