You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
JOJO MOYES“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.
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if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.
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I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.
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“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person'” “But, I’m not.” “How do you know?
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Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
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I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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Do 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?
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Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
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She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.
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