C.F. Joyce Quotes
TOBIAS: No one ever said this would be easy, and you don’t seem like the type of woman to take the easy way out.
When you turn the construction of your life over to God, He'll build something beautiful.
There are moments in our lives that define the people we will become in the future, like a symptom before an ailment, or the catalyst before the cure.
The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody.
Popularity is like a girl in class that you can't ignore. She give you eyes when no one looks then turns to her friends and laughs some more.
I guess what's most important is that we chose to live with our hearts open and to let our experiences show us the way towards our brightest days.
Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's.
Christopher was wearing a suit and adorned make-up. As long as I had known him, he never wore a suit or make-up. The look of him defenseless to his appearance saddened me.
Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!" He became animated at this point, "No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free.
In times such as these, life often begs us to seek answers when in reality there are only questions available.
It’s funny how books can change you. You open up a book and one minute you are who you’ve always been, then you read some random passage and you become someone else.
And you’ll miss me more as the narrowing weeks wing by. Someday duly, oneday truly, twosday newly, till whensday.
Each imagining himself to be the first last and only alone, whereas he is neither first last nor last nor only not alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.
The gym cat appears to those who will die. He is our totem." This thought came to me a few weeks ago. I shared it with no one of course.
Queenie Hennessy - "I am here to die."Sister Mary Inconnue - "Pardon me but you are here to live until you die. There is a significant difference.
Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.
It was hard to understand a little and then walk away.
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.
Be daring, take on anything. Don’t labor over little cameo works in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
Then, in that case, all the rest, all that I thought I thought and all that I felt I felt, all the rest before me now, in fact... O, give it up old chap! Sleep it off!
Falling in love isn't about expectations or an outcome.It is about the sheer, weightless, joyous terror of falling into the universal embrace.
All our good and bad memories—they were like our B-side diaries. They were like those songs on old dusty punk albums that no one listened to anymore.
A three-quarter moon, glowering bone, with a hint of something bruised, battered, scarred. The moon has endured more than anybody can know.
I wish to be washed clean of my old life. To let go of my tide of sorrows and find my way to a new shore.
I think all wishes are the same, really, " she continued. "Whether they ask for this, that, or the other, what they are really asking for is happiness.
Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.
Like a turnip such a head could be blown away very easily. For where a man was weak, a woman has unmanned him. It would be a mercy to blow such a man away.
And scars will lighten, they'll pale unless you keep rubbing at them...wait long enough, they'll fade.
I am strong, but I am tired, Stephen, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having to do the right thing.
I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break.
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” —
There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb.
