Joel is Sam Pickles’s brother, who seems much luckier than Sam until his sudden, fatal heart attack while fishing on the beach. Joel owns the pub that the Pickles family inhabits at the beginning of the novel; he bought the pub and the house on Cloud Street with the money he won from betting on a horse named Eurythmic. After Joel’s death, the Pickles family discovers that Joel left the house on Cloud Street to Sam, along with a solid sum of money. In addition to his generosity, Joel also seems to have an understanding of his brother’s behavior, as he ensures Cloudstreet can't be sold for 20 years after his death, knowing that Sam would sell it and gamble away the money if he could. Sam often says that Joel is an example of a truly lucky person, in contrast to himself.
Joel Pickles Quotes in Cloudstreet
The Cloudstreet quotes below are all either spoken by Joel Pickles or refer to Joel Pickles. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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Some people are lucky, she heard him say. Joel, he’s lucky. Got a good business. His hayburners win. See, I got me ole man’s blood. Dead unlucky.
Rose yawned. Until your luck changes.
Luck don’t change, love. It moves.
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Joel Pickles Quotes in Cloudstreet
The Cloudstreet quotes below are all either spoken by Joel Pickles or refer to Joel Pickles. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 1
Quotes
Some people are lucky, she heard him say. Joel, he’s lucky. Got a good business. His hayburners win. See, I got me ole man’s blood. Dead unlucky.
Rose yawned. Until your luck changes.
Luck don’t change, love. It moves.
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