My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
JOJO MOYESMy nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
JOJO MOYESDo I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?
JOJO MOYESIf you’d bothered to ask me, Clark, if you’d bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours.
JOJO MOYESI just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.
JOJO MOYESSome mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.
JOJO MOYESI hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.
JOJO MOYESBelieve me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
JOJO MOYESBut don’t blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she’s still experimenting.
JOJO MOYESJust live well. Just live
JOJO MOYESI could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
JOJO MOYESI had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
JOJO MOYESSometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
JOJO MOYESYou make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.
JOJO MOYESYou’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
JOJO MOYESI’m not going to try and change you mind.” “If you’re here, you accept it’s my choice. This is the first thing I’ve been in control of since the accident.” “I know.” And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it.
JOJO MOYESJust hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
JOJO MOYES