I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.
JOJO MOYESBecause even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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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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I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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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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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.
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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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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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Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
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Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk.
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Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
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I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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I frowned at the list. “So… I’ll go back and tell the Traynors that I’m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics-
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There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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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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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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