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.
JOJO MOYESBut just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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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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I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
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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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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
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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 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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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you,
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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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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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