C.F. Joyce Quotes

What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.

How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?

There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.

Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.

She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars.

One mistake is all they see.

Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.

Try staying awake for 24 hours and you'll realize just how many needless worries your mind instantly shuts out.

As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.

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.

Dear World, I exist.Deal with it.

How many geniuses die undiscovered, not only by others but, more sadly, by themselves?

Dear Teenage Self, That guy you're crazy about, Will ask you out On a dateIn about ten years, so don't fretYou'll get there yet.But fate is cruelOn that day, That feeling will have gone away.

There is more to hear in what is not said.

If you can put your five fingers throught it, it is a gate, if not a door.

A dark horse riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winning post, his mane moonflowing, his eyeballs stars.

For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints.

Be careful what you say for you can never take back the poison you threw

Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you've been told, what the words suggest.

A Dream Pirate attack is swift and ragged. Like awkward phantoms, the pirates often fly in lurches and jerks, and they usually destroy everything that gets in their way.

It's better to die chasing a dream never caught than to die never having chased the dream.

Color is the melody of light.

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.

Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them.

A sinner’s humanity will cause him to fall from grace again and again, but his human pride, ego, or feeling of unworthiness should not prevent him from seeking God’s forgiveness again and again.

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows.But stories all...

to understand pretending, " Ombric was fond of saying, "is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

But you would still settle for me if I were that last, wouldn't you? Women are like that. They have to have a male.

Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away?

ANSON: I’ll work on making it enough. And I’ll work at being enough. For you.

ANSON: I want to give you the world, but a man like me doesn’t have the world to give. [He ... leveled her with a gold-eyed look that ripped at her heart.] I can give you me.

KATE: Everyone is effed up, Dalton. At some point, you just have to find someone to share the baggage with.---Dawson Fur Hire (Bears Fur Hire, Book 5)

If I don't talk about it, it's either very displeasing or very precious to me.

Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?

There are certain songs, and books, and films that are like points of high ground in the memory. Like they are even larger than your own experiences. They never go away.

He said he preferred to feel the earth sing through his feet, and that shoes stopped you from hearing the song of the earth.

It is not about how much money we make or how big and powerful our work appears to others, it is about the love with which we put into each act of kindness toward another human being.

Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value.

Early morning: set off at dawn. Travel round in front of the sun, steal a day's march on him. Keep it up for ever never grow a day older technically.

What was after the universe?Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

She had said that she preferred to be alone for so many years that it was now one of those things that equally well might or might not be true.

She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely.

Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.

Sometimes caring for something already growing is more perilous than planting something new.

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glasses.

And remember: you must not overwork your body, or your soul. You must not enslave yourself, as you would not enslave any other person. You must be the custodian of your self.

Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself.

Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow.

Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.

True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism.