Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
JOJO MOYESThat evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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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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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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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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I thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
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I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.
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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.
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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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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 could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask 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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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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I 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.
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I frowned at the list. “So… I’ll go back and tell the Traynors that I’m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics-
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