I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
JOJO MOYESI had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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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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She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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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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…I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
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I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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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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I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
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It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
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