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“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

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“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

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“We write ourselves certain parts and then keep playing them as if we have no choice. But a tardy person can become a punctual one, if she chooses. You don’t have to keep being the thing you have become. It is never too late.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

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“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

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“Sometimes, Harold, the way forward takes you by surprise. You try to force something in the familiar direction and discover that what it needs is to move in a different dimension. The way forward is not forward, but off to one side, in a place you have not noticed before.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

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