Joe Joyce > Quotes

“when I finished the call and I stood at the zinc staring into the glass and discouraging conversation.”
― Joe Joyce, No Second Take: A WW2 novel set among filmmakers on the French Riviera

“But politicians don’t always do things that are likely. Or even make sense.”
― Joe Joyce, Echowave

“clouds like dirty rags sitting on the city,”
― Joe Joyce, Echobeat: Book 2 of the WW2 spy novels set in neutral Ireland

“A half-moon hung in the dark sky, marking a feeble path across the bay,”
― Joe Joyce, No Second Take: A WW2 novel set among filmmakers on the French Riviera

“city lay washed and low in the damp air, huddled under a sickly cover of coal smoke and sodium lights.”
― Joe Joyce, Off The Record

“engines straining to heave its bulk into the sky,”
― Joe Joyce, Echowave

“seamless layer of grey clouds lay as heavy and dense as a sheet of blotting paper over the city, soaking up its energy.”
― Joe Joyce, Echowave

“It brings out the best in some and the worst in a few. Most just try to muddle through it as best they can. Once it starts most of it is out of everyone’s control. It has its own logic and it can be a terrible logic.”
― Joe Joyce, Echoland: Book 1 of the WW2 spy novels set in neutral Ireland

“The benefit of living in a foreign country was to be emotionally distanced from its domestic controversies.”
― Joe Joyce, No Second Take: A WW2 novel set among filmmakers on the French Riviera

“The relationship had gone sour, not dramatically or over any one thing. Slowly and steadily over nothing in particular, everything in general, strangled by two different prescriptions for living.”
― Joe Joyce, Off The Record

“Cash registers beeped electronically and merged with the mechanised muzak.”
― Joe Joyce, Off The Record

“felt the adrenalin course through his body”
― Joe Joyce, Off The Record

“The countryside was iced white and the morning sun was already beginning to sink back into the distant south, defeated.”
― Joe Joyce, Off The Record