“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.”
JOJO MOYESSomewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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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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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Oh, Clark,if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now.And I…i can’t live with that knowledge. I can’t. It’s Not who I am. I can’t be the kind of man who just…accepts.
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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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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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… if you’re going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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The most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat….
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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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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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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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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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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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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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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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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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 thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
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My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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I 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.
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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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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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