“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.”
JOJO MOYESYou can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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Oh, 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.
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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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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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There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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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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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
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Just live well. Just live
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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I 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.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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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