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.
JOJO MOYESI could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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Just live well. Just live
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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
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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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.
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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’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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And I don’t want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your crazy dresses and not…not be able to do what I want with you.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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 could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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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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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 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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“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
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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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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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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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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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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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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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