I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
JOJO MOYESI 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
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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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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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’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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There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
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Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
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“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”
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Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
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But don’t blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she’s still experimenting.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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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 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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