All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
JOJO MOYESThere is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.
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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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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?
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Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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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 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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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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“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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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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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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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 could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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