“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
JOJO MOYESI thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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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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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 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 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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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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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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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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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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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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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I just… want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
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