“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
JOJO MOYESI 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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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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I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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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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I see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.
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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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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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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 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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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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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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