A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
JOJO MOYESPush yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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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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Just live well. Just live
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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 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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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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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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“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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I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
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Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
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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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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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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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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 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
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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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If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk.
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I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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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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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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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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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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