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.
JOJO MOYESThe 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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 know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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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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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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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 could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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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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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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Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
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