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 MOYESif 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 MOYESMuch to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
JOJO MOYESYou’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.
JOJO MOYESSometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
JOJO MOYESJust 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.
JOJO MOYESI 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.
JOJO MOYESHow is it possible to exist with so much pain?
JOJO MOYESThe 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,
JOJO MOYESI just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.
JOJO MOYESI will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
JOJO MOYESThere are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
JOJO MOYESAnd 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.
JOJO MOYESAnd 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.
JOJO MOYESIt’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
JOJO MOYESPush yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
JOJO MOYESOh, 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.
JOJO MOYES