Joyce Rachelle

If this cursed and fallen worldholds such beauty as what I see,Imagine the beauty of paradisethat's gladly waiting for me.

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

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

When we get too comfortable, we stop dreaming.

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

Yes you have returnedAnd things are as they wereBut this you cannot hide,A part of you has died.

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.

Remember the friends who stuck with you when they thought you had nothing.

Not all friends know they have lost you.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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