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.
JOJO MOYESThey began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
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And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.
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Because 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.
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I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen
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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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Just 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.
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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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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 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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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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You decided what you thought you’d like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.
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You 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.
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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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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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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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I see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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If you’d bothered to ask me, Clark, if you’d bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours.
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