People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing …

- Rachel Joyce

Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you were doing wa…

- Rachel Joyce

But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

- Rachel Joyce

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of …

- Rachel Joyce

And it can take a lifetime, a life of many years, to accept the incongruity of things: that a small moment can sit side by side with a big one, and b…

- Rachel Joyce

He must have driven this way countless times, and yet he had no memory of the scenery. He must have been so caught up in the day's agenda, and arrivi…

- Rachel Joyce

But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are.

- Rachel Joyce

After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges.

- Rachel Joyce

The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.

- Rachel Joyce