There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
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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I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.
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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’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.
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I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
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I can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.
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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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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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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
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​​​​​​You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
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But 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.
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Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
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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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I 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.
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“I’m fine. I just…I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about…I just…want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.
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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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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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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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