86 Quotes by Graham Joyce

Rationally speaking, blaming one’s behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. CHARLES DE LINT.

What I mean is this: you meet someone, you think about them. You’re already changing because of the way you think about them. You meet them again, you think about them some more, you’re changing again. And on it goes. You are changing right now. Before my eyes.

She couldn’t see him, but his voice was like light through a stained-glass window in a cathedral.

Some people feed you with love,” Tara said, “and some people love you with food.

Go deep within yourself and be fearless in search of the treasure you are but have momentarily forgotten.

But it’s like life, isn’t it? We know death is coming. And yet we always see our loved ones as taken away from us, instead of given to us for whatever time they have.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I’m the emperor of Abyssinia.

Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny – or not so tiny – leap of the imagination is made.