Carol

“These bloody heels," she said. She told me she always changed her shoes if she felt low. It is the noise you make in the world that is the key to happiness, she said.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

“Perhaps I took my mother more literally than she intended, but I applied her rule to my life; after all, we are all searching for them, the rules. We pick them up from the strangest places, and if they appear to work once we can live a whole lifetime by them, regardless of the unhappiness and difficulty they may later bring.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

“Well, there is narcissism in all of us, of course. I mean, we are the protagonists of our own lives, so naturally it feels like we're at the wheel. But we're not at the wheel. That just happens to be where the window is located.”
― Jean Hanff Korelitz, You Should Have Known

“All in all, I'd heard people do a lot of things with words. I'd heard them not say what they meant and I'd seen them not do what they said, but I'd never met a person who could speak so simply and still convey so much.”
― Rachel Joyce