Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you were doing was carrying on as before. He had faced his shortcomings and overcome them and so the real business of walking was happening only now.

Rachel Joyce

Stichwörter: fresh-start



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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 being human.

Rachel Joyce


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If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.

Rachel Joyce

Stichwörter: inspirational humility hope



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His shirt, tie, and trousers were folded small as an apology on a faded blue-velvet chair.

Rachel Joyce

Stichwörter: folded-clothes



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Houses don't clean themselves, she'd mutter. Sometimes she cleaned the bits she had just cleaned. It wasn't like living in a house, but more a question hovering over the surfaces.

Rachel Joyce

Stichwörter: housecleaning



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He had never been good at expressing himself. What he felt was so big it was difficult to find the words, and even if he could, it was hardly appropriate to write them to someone he had not contacted in twenty years.

Rachel Joyce


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He wished the man would honor the true meaning of words, instead of using them as ammunition.

Rachel Joyce


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...People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy.

Rachel Joyce

Stichwörter: thought-provoking



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Sometimes her words sliced down on his before they had even reached his mouth.

Rachel Joyce


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The regrets about all she had let go flooded her. Where had all that enterprise gone? All that energy? Why had she never traveled? Or had more sex when she could? She had bleached and annihilated every waking moment of the last twenty years. Anything, rather than feel.

Rachel Joyce

Stichwörter: marriage relationships fiction regret



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