{"author":"Rachel Joyce","author_id":"Rachel+Joyce","total_quotes":30,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Rachel Joyce","tags":["death","dying","hospice","love","pilgrimage"],"id":8837,"author_id":"Rachel+Joyce"},{"text":"Harold believed his journey was truly beginning. He had thought it started the moment he decided to walk to Berwick, but he saw now that he had been naïve. 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 overcame them, and so the real business of walking was happening only now.","author":"Rachel Joyce","tags":["self-realization"],"id":61477,"author_id":"Rachel+Joyce"},{"text":"The sky and the sun are always there. It's the clouds that come and go.","author":"Rachel Joyce","tags":["clouds","despair","hope"],"id":73523,"author_id":"Rachel+Joyce"},{"text":"I actually hate Christmas,' says Eileen. 'Everybody has this idea you have to have a good time, like happiness comes in a ruddy packet.' Her face is flushed with heat. 'One time, I stayed in bed all day. That was one of my best Christmases.","author":"Rachel Joyce","tags":["bah-humbug","christmas"],"id":78492,"author_id":"Rachel+Joyce"},{"text":"He saw the reflection of her face in a compact mirror as she painted on her re lips. She did it with such care, he had felt she was trapping something behind the colour.She had touched life, played with it a little, bit it was a slippery bugger,and finally we must close the door, and leave it behind.","author":"Rachel Joyce","tags":["life-lessons-lessons","literatue","novel"],"id":85888,"author_id":"Rachel+Joyce"},{"text":"Things don't so much end as disappear. They don't so much begin as turn up. You think there will be a time to say goodbye, but people have often gone before you know about it. And I don't just mean the dying.","author":"Rachel Joyce","tags":["death","goodbye","regret"],"id":139652,"author_id":"Rachel+Joyce"},{"text":"If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there.","author":"Rachel Joyce","tags":["journey","keep-going"],"id":168003,"author_id":"Rachel+Joyce"},{"text":"...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.","author":"Rachel Joyce","tags":["thought-provoking"],"id":173625,"author_id":"Rachel+Joyce"},{"text":"If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.","author":"Rachel Joyce","tags":["hope","humility","inspirational"],"id":179742,"author_id":"Rachel+Joyce"},{"text":"Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow.","author":"Rachel Joyce","tags":["past","regret","sorrow"],"id":184466,"author_id":"Rachel+Joyce"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}