102 Quotes by Rachel Joyce

"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."

"Jim looks out the car window with his nose pressed to the glass. Sometimes he pretends to be asleep. Not because he is tired, but because he needs to be quiet."

"You don't get to a place by constantly moving, even if your journey is only one of sitting still and waiting. Every once in a while you have to stop in your tracks and admire the view, a small cloud and a tree outside your window. You have to see what you did not see before. And then you have to sleep."

"The people he met, the places he passed, were all steps in his journey, and he kept a place inside his heart for each of them."

"Aretha is soul. You can’t argue with Aretha."

"Because life goes on, the music told her, even when you think it can't. Yes, there is fear. There is real cruelty. Not knowing what the fuck. Those things are there. But listen because there is this too--this beauty. The human adventure is worth it, after all."

"...the vivid past would not go away.Like music, said Peg. Even when it was over, it kept living inside you."

"Jazz was about the spaces between notes. It was about what happened when you listened to the thing inside you. The gaps and the cracks. Because that was where life really happened, when you were brave enough to free-fall."

"That was why Peg loved the Messiah best of all. Because it showed people they were not alone. No matter about their differences, the music lifted them up and lowered them down, only to raise them even higher. It worked like a spell."

"If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there."