Joyce Rachelle

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

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

There will always be one or two things bothering the person next to you. And if that person happens to be looking heavenward, it__ because it helps us to remind ourselves that God is bigger than our problems.

I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.

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.

Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.

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.

If you can't give it all you've got, don't bother.

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

If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room.

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

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.

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

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

I am bothered by poems I don't understand.

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